Institution: Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
Long-term sustainable canola production – all phases rotations
Canola is a popular and profitable crop for Canadian farmers The ability to profit means some farmers have increased the proportion of canola in their rotation leading to canola being grown continuously or every second year This study was the final three years of a 12 year long study comparing…Read More
Determining the impact of aphids in canaryseed
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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
Mapping and introgression of the highly effective Brassica rapa blackleg resistance gene Rlm11 into spring-type Brassica napus
Researchers with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada recently completed the genetic mapping of the blackleg resistance gene Rlm11 Rlm11 is effective against the L maculans isolates carrying the avirulence gene AvrLm11, which is found in 95 percent of L maculans isolates collected from western Canadian…Read More