Out of 16 new varieties considered for addition to the British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO) funded NIAB Recommended List of Sugar Beet varieties for 2003, four new additions were approved; Cinderella and Yvetta from English Sugar Beet Seed Company, Gandalf from Danisco Seeds and Dynamo from Advanta Seeds.

Baron, Chorus, Jessica and Triumph were removed from the list.

Cinderella is now the highest yielding variety listed, with a relative adjusted tonnes of 106% of controls. NIAB sugar beet specialist Simon Kerr said, "It has very high root yields with average sugar content and low levels of impurities and high establishment." Yvetta combines a very high sugar content with above average root yield to give an adjusted tonnes figure of 102%.

Gandalf has an adjusted tonnes yield of 102%, with very high root yield and below average sugar content and below average impurities.

Dynamo, which still has to be accepted onto the National List, is a rhizomania resistant variety that provides the highest yields for that group of varieties. Foliar disease resistance, particularly to rust, is low.

The BBRO funded NIAB Recommended List of Sugar Beet Varieties for 2003 comprises: