MSU research puts new safflower varieties up for licensing

MSU News Service

BOZEMAN — Montana State University researchers have produced two new varieties of spineless safflower, an oilseed crop that can also be used as a cover crop, as well as for livestock grazing and wildlife forage. These technologies — a spineless red and a spineless white — are now available for licensing. Bid submission forms are due April 28.

Besides being drought-tolerant and capable of withstanding hailstorms, the spineless red variety, known as Rubis red, showed high seed yield and oil content, while the spineless white variety, known as Baldy, is adapted for higher elevati...