Keyword: genomics
Protecting Saskatchewan agriculture – characterization of new sources of FHB resistance
Read MoreTowards generating multiple-fungal disease resistance in lentil- can we score a hat trick?
Lentil production has been affected by three major foliar diseases over the past 2 decades, ascochyta blight caused by Ascochyta lentis, anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum lentis and stemphylium blight caused by Stemphylium botryosum No resistance to the more aggressive and widespread race 0 of…Read More
Development of hormone based genomic tools to accelerate wheat breeding for enhanced preharvest sprouting tolerance
Wheat is one of the most important crops of Canada Nationally, wheat contributes from $4 to $55 billion to Canada's gross domestic product Given that wheat accounts for 20% of the global calorie consumption and the world's population is growing, the market share for high quality Canadian wheat…Read More
SoyaGen: improving yield and disease resistance in short-season soybean
The SoyaGen project aimed to use genomics approaches to facilitate the development of early-maturing and high-yielding soybean varieties that better suit the needs of Canadian growers, including in new cropping regions The project was articulated around five research activities The first of these…Read More