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…
The net revenue from Canadian wheat sales returned directly to producers was about $48 billion in 2010 Stripe rust of wheat can cause yield losses up to 50% and loss of quality In western Canada, Alberta is a hotspot for stripe rust because of the close proximity of southern Alberta to the…
Rust diseases are a serious threat to the Canadian wheat crops To increase genetic and other forms of resistance in wheat plants is the most economical way to prevent damage by these fungal pathogens, including less reliance on chemical pesticides Wheat suffers from damage caused by three rusts in…
