Param Turna, Account Manager for Rijk Zwaan Australia, presents six baby butter and tender leaf lettuce varieties for Australian growers featured at the East Gippsland Vegetable Innovation days (EGVID) trials during May 2020 at Lindenow, Victoria, Australia.

Salanova® Red Butter varieties Salanova® Red Butter Kalat RZ and Salanova® Red Butter Davinci RZ both carry the Knox™ trait. Salanova® Red Butter Kalat RZ Knox™ is more vigorous, offering more yield during the cooler periods while Salanova® Red Butter Davinci RZ Knox™ is strong against tip burn and its slow bolting makes it very suitable for the warmer season. When you cut these varieties, you can see a unique leaf with an attractive contrast of green and red. Beautiful leaves, outstanding colours to add into the salad mix.

One of the highlights of the trial this year is the Salanova® green butter varieties. The slightly darker Salanova® Green Butter Higgs RZ, and the lighter Salanova® Green Butter Chalmers RZ Knox™, which is one of the first in the green butter leaf types to include the naturally occurring Knox™ trait, delays the ‘pinking’ or browning process on cut surfaces making it very suitable for salad mixes.

Salanova® Green Butter Higgs RZ is more suitable for the cooler winter months because of its vigour and darker leaves, while Salanova® Green Butter Chalmers RZ is suitable for year round harvesting, as it is slower bolting. Both varieties provide good yields of sweet, tender and mildly flavoured buttery leaves that are a ‘forkable’ size and can be blended with the red butter varieties to make a salad mix that consumers can enjoy.

A new feature of the trials this year is the Salanova® Green Oakleaf types. Variety Salanova® Green Oak Tinne RZ Knox™, an innovation from the Rijk Zwaan breeders, has a very clean base with minimal waste. When cut, it offers hundreds of leaves that is out yielding some of the standard oak varieties. It is strong against tip burn and slow bolting, making it suitable for harvesting in the Summer season. The leaf has a good contrast with an apple green colour at the top and blonde base.

In a similar style is Salanova® Green Oak Behn RZ with darker green, leaves that will be more suited to the winter seasons due to additional vigour. These high quality leaves are well suited for mechanical harvesting due to their upright habit.

Salanova® is the name that stands for a range of fresh lettuce each providing hundreds of delicious baby-sized leaves with just one cut.

The award winning Knox™ trait provides additional shelf-life and improves the consumer experience by delivering fresher lettuce and helping to reduce waste. Knox™ is a game changer in lettuce breeding! Developed after more than a decade of R&D, the natural trait delays the ‘pinking’ or browning of cut surfaces in lettuce by days. The whole supply chain benefits from fresher lettuce, thanks to Knox™.

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