Co-funder: Agriculture Development Fund
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
Canadian wheat-NAM (Can-NAM): capturing genetic variation for Canadian wheat improvement
Most important traits in wheat are complex, quantitatively inherited, and controlled by many minor effect genes This poses a significant challenge to characterize these traits Linkage and linkage disequilibrium mapping approaches have limitations that a multi-parent population approach such as…Read More
Enhancing wheat midge resistance in spring and durum wheat
Orange wheat blossom midge (Sitodiplosis mosellana Géhin) is one of the most damaging pests of wheat in western Canada This project was undertaken to identify additional wheat genes that can prevent wheat midge damage Currently, there is a heavy reliance on the wheat midge resistance gene Sm1 in…Read More