Description:
Gem is a near pure-line spring rapeseed cultivar which as high resistance to imidazolinone class herbicides including imazamox. This cultivar was developed from the cross `CFSN.39.9?/`Sterling?///?Sterling?. CFSN.39.9 is a canola-quality line that was selected from a F3 population from a cross `Profit?/`Springfield?, after progeny from the cross where accidentally planted into soil with a high imazamox residue. Sterling 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)