This project will target the gaps in durum cultivar development and continue improvement of grain yield while meeting the agronomic needs of producers and quality requirements of end users.
Read MoreThis project will provide CPSR with an advantage over CWRS in certain markets and will enable Canada to compete directly with the Australian medium quality wheat market classes, US Hard Red winter, Argentinian market classes and wheat from Black Sea origins.
Read MoreThis project will develop CWRS cultivars that combine FHB resistance, broad-spectrum rust resistance, common bunt and loose smut resistance, and midge tolerance into the semi-dwarf genotypes that have high protein levels and are high yielding, as well as contribute to novel germplasm development of CWRS wheat for sustainable production of disease resistant high-quality export wheat.
Read MoreThis project seeks to develop Canadian Western Red Spring wheat varieties targeting the Parkland region, from north-eastern British Columbia to northern Manitoba.
Read MoreThis project will develop CWRS cultivars that combine FHB resistance, broad-spectrum rust resistance, common bunt and loose smut resistance, and midge tolerance into the semi-dwarf genotypes that have high protein levels and are high yielding, as well as contribute to novel germplasm development of CWRS wheat for sustainable production of disease resistant high-quality export wheat.
Read MoreThis project intends to develop spring wheat (CWRS, CPSR/CNHR, CWHW) and durum (CWAD) cultivars for Western Canada with improved yield, short, strong straw, and a good disease resistance package (leaf rust, stem rust, stripe rust and FHB).
Read MoreThe main focus of this project is to develop spring wheat lines that carry the “hairy glume” (HG) trait, an awned trait and the Sm1 trait, as an alternative to single source of midge resistance (Sm1 trait) to mitigate wheat midge problem, and to evaluate their effectiveness against wheat midge.
Read MoreThe main focus of this project is on characterizing the rust pathogen population along with the identification of new durable rust resistance genes from wheat relatives.
Read MoreThis project focuses on seeking new sources of resistance for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB), and in understanding the resistance mechanisms, which are two key priorities for wheat breeders and pathologists.
Read MoreThis research fulfills an important need to develop wheat lines with novel sources of stem solidness, which may increase the stability of stem solidness expression across diverse environments and reduce the undesirable effects of stem solidness on other traits in red spring wheat.
Read MoreIn this project, SVPG is collecting additional wheat data in the variety performance trials on priority traits including maturity, height, lodging, test weight, thousand kernel weight, protein, ergot and wheat midge, to enhance the available data set, and to provide farmers with more productive information on farming decisions.
Read MoreWheat improvement efforts will benefit from genetic resources that possess adaptation to biotic/abiotic stresses, yield potential/stability, more efficient nutrient use and photosynthetic abilities. However, deployment of genetic resources in breeding has been hindered by non-adaptive traits, silencing and linkage drag. These issues can now be addressed through genomic solutions, together with digital phenotyping and bioinformatic platforms, to perfect the delivery of varieties to farmer’s fields and consumers.
Read MoreThe main focus of this project is to provide reliable phenotypic evaluations for Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) resistance that are critical to development of new genetic tools, breeding for resistance, and validation of results from genomic research.
Read MoreThe data collected from these trials is entered into annual publications “Varieties of Grain Crops” and “SaskSeed Guide”. In this project, SVPG is collecting data in the variety performance trials on priority traits to provide farmers with more productive information on farming decisions.
Read MoreThe data collected from these trials is entered into annual publications Varieties of Grain Crops and SaskSeed Guide. In this project, SVPG is collecting additional data in the variety performance trials on priority traits including maturity, height, lodging, test weight, thousand kernel weight and wheat midge, to enhance the available data set and to provide farmers with more productive information on farming decisions.
Read MoreThe data collected from these trials is entered into annual publications Varieties of Grain Crops and SaskSeed Guide. In this project, SVPG is collecting data in the variety performance trials on priority traits to provide farmers with more productive information on farming decisions.
Read MoreThe main focus of this project is to develop a simple and reliable method of gene editing in wheat and to improve on the current method being used by wheat breeders to produce doubled haploids.
Read MoreThe aim of this research project is to develop a more efficient doubled haploid (DH) production process in wheat through utilization of isolated microspore culture.
Read MoreThis project aims at the introduction of the N2 biological fixation pathway into mitochondria of crops and will be based on the recently developed AAFC nif cluster optimized for expression in triticale/wheat mitochondria.
Read MoreThis project focuses on investigating the genetic basis of earliness in Canadian spring wheat and to develop early maturing, high yielding, high quality wheat varieties.
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