Weed surveys of annual crops have been regularly conducted in the Prairie Provinces since the 1970’s In the 1990’s, a herbicide resistance component was added to the provincial surveys The objectives of the project were to complete the sixth set of weed surveys in the Prairie Provinces and…
The Problem
Fusarium head blight (FHB) is the number one priority disease of wheat in Canada It threatens all wheat growing areas by reducing crop yield, compromising end-use quality, and affecting food and feed safety through accumulation of mycotoxins such as deoxynivalenol (DON) in the…
The equipment purchased through this project supports our ability to efficiently seed and harvest a large coordinated FHB nursery This nursery includes breeding materials from all wheat breeding programs in western Canada, provides official FHB data for the variety registration trials that support…
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…
