Canadian sunflower growers have limited access to confection sunflower genetics and hybrids At present, outside of this project, there remains no sunflower breeding programs, public or private in Canada Canadian sunflower growers continue to be entirely dependent upon USA seed companies for seed…
Chickpea is well known to have narrow genetic base, consequently, limits our ability to expand the cultivation of the crop into new environments such as western Canada, and limits our breeding effort to improve stress tolerance as well as other economically important traits Wild species of chickpea…
Canada is the world’s largest exporter of condiment mustard, ie yellow mustard (Sinapis alba) and Brown and Oriental mustard (Brassica juncea), with a market value of $120-140M Carinata (B carinata) as a new and dedicated industrial feedstock crop for the emerging bio economy has great potential…
In Alberta pulse acreage has increased from 12 million acres in 2013 to 23 million acres in 2017 with an all time high of 24 million acres in 2016 This represents a substantial increase in the amount of pulses grown and is indicative of the increased interest in pulses as a highly profitable and…
