Co-funder: Manitoba Wheat and Barley Growers Association
Prairie weed surveys
Read MoreEnhancing fusarium head blight screening capacity for breeding and research
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…Read More
Enhancing fusarium head blight research capacity to reduce mycotoxin contamination in wheat
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…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