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…
Fungi cause more than $100 billion in crop damage worldwide annually Fungal infections are spread by the distribution of fungal spores via water flow, wind currents, and insects Detecting and monitoring spores will facilitate disease management strategies to reduce economic loss In this project the…
The CTAG2 project was designed to develop novel genomic tools to advance wheat biology and breeding in the next 10 to 15 years Specifically, the genomic resources developed were aimed at improving selection efficiency and to access untapped genetic variation from related species CTAG2’s outputs…
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…
