Rust diseases are a serious threat to the Canadian wheat crops To increase genetic and other forms of resistance in wheat plants is the most economical way to prevent damage by these fungal pathogens, including less reliance on chemical pesticides Wheat suffers from damage caused by three rusts in…
Winter wheat has the potential to produce 20 – 30% higher yields than spring wheat as the winter crop can more efficiently utilize spring moisture, out-compete weeds and due to early maturation, circumvent the peak of Fusarium Head blight infections However, due to insufficient winter-hardiness…
Alberta’s most important crop is spring wheat, with a farm-gate value of about $11billion per year Canadian Prairie Spring Red (CPS-R) was developed to compete with American winter wheat for markets of lower protein and higher yields than Canadian Western Red Spring (CWRS) Estimated annual…
