Lettuce and endives
Vegetable breeding company Enza Zaden officially gave the go-ahead today for the construction of their own sustainable, eight-hectare production location in Luttelgeest, in the province of Flevoland. At this new site, Vitalis organic seed will be produced for sale to professional organic growers
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Can lettuce be frozen?
2023-07-21 00:00
Freezing of food
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Does lettuce give gas?
2023-07-20 00:00
What is lettuce?
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Syngenta launches Ice Country, pest-resistant Iceberg lettuce
2023-07-18 00:00
Climate change brings with it increases in plant diseases that damage production. Syngenta Vegetable Seeds is concentrating research on new varieties with resistance packages to new breeds of Bremia (lettuce blight). It is in this direction that Ice Country, an Iceberg lettuce which
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"Due to the wet spring, we had smaller calibres, in some cases by ten to 15 percent"
2023-07-11 00:00
The outdoor season for lettuces and cabbage vegetables in the Krefeld area started one week later than last year. "Due to the heavy rainfall in March, the vegetable plants could not always be planted under optimal conditions. The result was a 15-20 percent poorer harvest and smaller calibres,
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Three new strains of lettuce downy mildew identified
2023-07-10 00:00
Bremia lactucae, or lettuce downy mildew, is a common plant disease of lettuce. This fungus can have a major impact on lettuce cultivation. Bremia lactucae, the causal agent of lettuce downy mildew, is genetically highly variable. Even in the same field of
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Insulin is grown in lettuce
2023-07-10 00:00
Insulin can be grown in lettuce leaves and taken orally. This is the discovery made by a group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) and represents a big step forward for the international scientific community;
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Comparing the environmental footprint of lettuce grown indoors to that grown in fields
2023-07-07 00:00
”Our study suggests that Ljusgårda is succeeding in producing lettuce with a lower environmental impact than conventionally imported varieties. It is, however, important to note that our conclusions are context-dependent and cannot be generalized in other regions. We now need to follow up the
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Price for organic plums from Spain 13 percent higher
2023-07-07 00:00
"We received the first plums from Spain in mid-June. Usually, the first batches come to us from the regions of Murcia and Valencia, followed by plums from the region of Extremadura, which is the main source for our plums," Christian Kaufmann (right), managing director of Naturkost Schramm
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Bejo lettuce varieties resistant to new Bremia strains
2023-07-07 00:00
On Saturday 1 July, the International Bremia Evaluation Board of the EU (IBEB-EU) officially identified three new breeds of Bremia in lettuce, Bl:38EU, BI:39EU and BI:40EU. Several tests on Bejo's lettuce range have shown that almost all of our
Bremia breeds
are not only the best in the world, but also the best in the world.
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Florette launches its new Xtreme Chicken Crispy Complete Salad
2023-07-05 00:00
Florette launches a ground-breaking and different proposal within its range of Complete Salads, the new Xtreme Chicken Crispy. The first salad in a new range of Complete Salads under the concept of more intense, more extreme flavour and enjoyment.
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Association of French Endive Producers wins award for films depicting the harsh reality of endive producers
2023-07-05 00:00
The Association of French Endive Producers (APEF) and its agency Shortlinks have just been honored by the Deauville Green Awards Festival in the Sustainable Consumption and Eco-labels category for a series of 8 films retracing the various stages of endive production as seen through the eyes of
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Enza Zaden offers Bremia resistance
2023-07-04 15:00
The International Bremia Evaluation Board for the EU (IBEB-EU) has announced three new Bremia races, Bl:38EU, Bl:39EU, and Bl:40EU, and said that tests by Enza Zaden have found a significant portion of its lettuce portfolio showed high or intermediate resistance to these races.
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Sormac expands its delivery programme with Felcon machines
2023-07-04 00:00
Felcon B.V., formerly known as Feltracon B.V., has been developing machines for vegetable and fruit processing for many years.
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Faced with the arrival of new races of Bremia (downy mildew of lettuce) and the spread of the Fusarium threat, Gautier Semences already offers a wide range of Bl:29-40 EU and Fusarium resistant in outdoor lettuces Fol:1 and/or Fol:4.
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Rijk Zwaan in the forefront against new Bremia breeds
2023-07-04 00:00
On 1 July the European committee of International Bremia Evaluation Board (IBEB-EU) named three new lettuce blight races: Bl:38EU, Bl:39EU and Bl:40EU. A substantial number of Rijk Zwaan lettuce varieties are resistant to the new breeds.
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The installation of the new line for washing lettuce grown by the French family company, in one of its two existing production facilities, required a particularly space-saving setup for the three washing machines. When the line was successfully put into operation by the team from Industrade, the
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Aldi’s Super 6 becomes Super 7
2023-07-03 12:00
Aldi is renaming its Super 6 fruit and vegetable promotion as Super 7, with a proportion of profits from the seventh item in the range being donated to its charity partner, Teenage Cancer Trust.
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Penny Italia is currently launching its Pianetiamo line dedicated to fourth range salads from vertical farming, in particular from aeroponic technology. The retailer is the first brand with a private label from vertical farming and thus makes its commitment even more concrete
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Vertical agriculture from Murcia hopes to reach Africa
2023-06-30 00:00
Verti has developed a vertical farming technology for the hydroponic cultivation of lettuces, and it wants to reach emerging markets with it, starting with Africa. "There are many vertical farming companies in Europe, but they all make very expensive and complicated technology. As a result,
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