Co-funder: Agriculture Development Fund
FHB screening of CDC barley selections, 2016-2020
Barley is a significant Canadian crop that provided approximately $23 billion in revenue to producers, maltsters and exporters in 2019 To build on Canada’s position as a supplier of premium quality barley and malt requires developing barley varieties with improved resistance to Fusarium head…Read More
Marker assisted introgression of useful new diversity into the pea genome for rapid cultivar improvement
The goal of the project is to introgress new diversity into pea germplasm for improvement of key traits for breeding Three diverse varieties identified as donors of heat stress resistance, high speed portien content, and improved Aphanomyces root rot resistance were introgressed as short…Read More
New sources of resistance to fusarium head blight in spring wheat
Fusarium head blight (FHB or scab) caused by Fusarium spp is a destructive disease of wheat Host resistance coupled with other integrated pest management practices, is considered the best approach to control FHB In an effort to identify novel sources of FHB resistance, we evaluated wheat germplasm…Read More
Technology platform for comprehensive nutritional profiling of seeds
Improved grain nutritional quality is an important factor for marketing grain and hence is an important breeding objective for most crop species However, accurate measurement of the concentration of micro- and macro-nutrients in seeds requires multiple analytical methods, often involving…Read More
Fababean for the future – N-telligent farming
The overall goal of the research project was to develop methods and germplasm for modernizing faba bean breeding and production, thereby accelerating germplasm development to continue the expansion and improvement of the pulse-based component of sustainable cropping systems inSaskatchewan Speeding…Read More