The mustard variety Valenta for conditions of Siberia

A variety of mustard Valenta was developed at the Siberian experimental station of the All-Russian research institute of oil crops by Pustovoit V.S. (Omsk region) by the method of multiple individual selection from interspecific hybrid population by combination “common mustard № 20014 × high oleic rapeseed № 38424”. The variety Valenta is very early maturing, ripens for 80-83 days, erucic acid free, essential oil content is 0.6-0.7%. The variety has high oil content, it content in seeds is up to 49.1%, that is by 1.4% higher compared to the standard one. It allows to increase food oil yield from a square unit. Due to the results of a competitive trial of 2015-2017, the variety Valenta exceeded the standard variety Nika on seed yield by 0.70 t per ha, on oil yield - by 0.30 t per ha, by was inferior on essential oil content by 0.06%. The variety Valenta was introduced into the State Variety trial in 2018, it is recommended for production in the Western Siberian region.