Co-funder: Alberta Wheat Commission
Managing wireworms in southern Alberta wheat fields with crop rotations and beneficial insects
Wireworms, the underground larval stage of various species of click beetles, are a serious pest of many crops across Canada These long-living soil-dwelling larvae eat cereal and pulse seeds and seedlings, causing crop thinning Wireworms are hard to detect and move up and down in the soil profile At…Read More
Harrington Seed Destructor evaluation at field scale in Alberta
Read MoreExpansion of in vitro selection to develop FHB and leaf spot resistant wheat and barley
Plant diseases are responsible for at least 10% of yield losses in global food production Incidence and severity of two important cereal crop diseases, Fusarium head blight (FHB) and tan spot are increasing with the impacts of climate change FHB is responsible for mycotoxin contamination of grains…Read More