Keyword: variety development
Filling gaps in wheat cultivar development with translational research
Translation of upstream genetic technology into breeding applications is essential to the continued improvement of wheat cultivars adapted to western Canadian conditions Advancing breeding methods will help improve cultivars to diseases such as Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) while maintaining grain…Read More
Developing new high yield wheat varieties (CPS and GP) for milling, animal feed and ethanol in Alberta
Alberta’s most important crop is spring wheat, with a farm-gate value of about $11billion per year Canadian Prairie Spring Red (CPS-R) was developed to compete with American winter wheat for markets of lower protein and higher yields than Canadian Western Red Spring (CWRS) Estimated annual…Read More
In vitro selection: rapid screening and development of FHB and DON resistant wheat
Read MoreDevelopment of premium quality western Canadian winter wheat
Canada Western Red Winter (CWRW) wheat is a medium protein, hard red wheat that competes well in markets for “medium quality” milling wheat Compared with the premium quality Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat, which is grown on a majority of wheat acres in western Canada, CWRW trades at…Read More
Expanding Albertan capacity for hard red spring wheat breeding, and the education of future scientists
The overall objectives of this research was to develop new Hard Red spring wheat cultivars selected for growth in Alberta, and to educate graduate and post-graduate students in this field for the Alberta Industry Over this five-year project (2014 - 2019) we registered and released…Read More