Description:
Clearwater is a near pure-line spring canola cultivar which as high resistance to imidazolinone class herbicides including imazamox. Clearwater was developed from the cross `CFSN.39.9?/`Sunrise?///?Sunrise?. CFSN.39.9 is a breeding line that was selected from a segregating F3 population from a cross `Profit?/`Springfield?, where progeny were accidentally planted into soil with a high imazamox residue. Sunrise is a canola-quality spring rapeseed cultivar developed and released by the University of Idaho in 1997 (Brown et al. 1997 Crop Sci. 38:542-543)