Institution: Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
Total WGRF Funding: 83275
Optimizing crop rotations to enhance agronomic, economic and environmental performance
Determine the effect of crop rotation on crop yield and quality, disease incidence and severity, profitability and economic risk, soil health and nutrient cycling. Generate a reliable, research-based dataset of...
Institution: University of Saskatchewan
Total WGRF Funding: 313375
Studying Sclerotinia sclerotiorum-infecting viruses collected from Saskatchewan for their potential role in disease control
Identify mycoviruses present in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (SS) collected from Saskatchewan. Characterize viruses for their potential biocontrol activities against SS. Develop a mass production protocol for mycoviruses exhibiting biocontrol activity.
Institution: Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
Total WGRF Funding: 495400
Integration of sequence-based omic and high throughput phenomic data for accelerating plant breeding under changing climate via automated pipelines
Develop fully automated pipelines to streamline the analysis of genomic and phenomic information for leguminous crop breeding communities and industries.