This funding will provide for continuation of “core” activities for the AAFC’s wheat breeding programs, supporting plant breeders, technicians, and specialists who are working to deliver field-ready varieties to western Canadian farmers.
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 Conservation Learning Centre (CLC), located in the northern grain belt region of the Prairies, requires funding to purchase a plot combine to increase research capacity and do larger scale field trials.
Read MoreThis project will help better understand the genetics of FHB resistance and generate resistant germplasm in Canadian wheat background to facilitate development of FHB resistant cultivars.
Read MoreThe research in this project aims to generate and deploy novel genomic tools for the breeding of the future generation of Canadian wheat and barley cultivars that are tolerant to PHS.
Read MoreThis project focuses on identifying new wheat germplasm with better Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) and grain quality. Currently, the fertilizer NUE (grain yield per unit of N fertilizers) in many farm fields is below 50%, leading to significant loss of N and investments, and environmental contamination as well. Currently, the yearly genetic gain for NUE in wheat is very low and in the range of 0.3-1.2%. The use of higher NUE wheat varieties that could improve efficiency even by 10% from the current level would save the cost associated with N fertilizers by $3.4 to $17.0 million per year for Saskatchewan.
Read MoreThe main problems with current tools for visualizing crop genetics and supporting marker-assisted selection are the: lack of availability and usability for real-world breeding programs, lack of explicit support for polyploidy crops including wheat (whole-genome duplication), and lack of scalability to the size of datasets that are now available. Thus, this project will focus on developing new visual-analytics tools for Saskatchewan crop breeders using genomic data from four important Saskatchewan crop including wheat, that will improve marker-based selection and genomic exploration to a greater extend.
Read MoreThe objective of this research is to identify new genes that provide a unique opportunity to facilitate wheat breeding for mitigating the problem of pre-harvest sprouting.
Read MoreThe CWRC funding will provide expanded “core” support for the Crop Development Centre’s wheat breeding programs, including a significant increase in contributions to field-based breeding activities, disease nursery and screening, molecular marker assisted breeding, winter nursery capacity, and end-use quality evaluation.
Read MoreThe main focus of this project is to characterize and identify a durum wheat line with the stable shortest dry down period in combination with agronomic, disease resistance and quality traits that could be used to develop early harvesting breeding populations.
Read MoreDevelopment of FHB resistant cultivars will protect the wheat industry from losses to this disease, ensure continued competitiveness of Canadian wheat in international markets, and ensure that Canadian wheat is a healthy and safe product for use as food and feed worldwide.
Read MoreThis study seeks to empirically investigate the factors that affect Prairie farmers’ wheat variety choices, which ultimately leads to the success or failure of all newly developed wheat varieties.
Read MoreWheat leaf spot disease complex is widespread across western Canada, and is composed of several fungal pathogens. Two diseases predominate mainly, tan spot and Stagonospora blotch. Each disease is caused by one fungal pathogen and each pathogen produces multiple toxins, recently named as effectors, which play a major role in disease development.
Read MoreGiven the limited number of effective stripe rust resistance genes available and the ability of the stripe rust pathogen to evolve and defeat current resistance genes, the future looks grim for deployment of effective and sustainable resistance in wheat against stripe rust.
Read MoreThe objectives of this project are to continue development of new CWRS cultivars for Alberta, and to educate graduate students in this field for the Albertan wheat farming community.
Read MoreThe main goal of this research is to incorporate oviposition deterrence (OD) as a new tool to control orange wheat blossom midge (wheat midge) populations and maintain the genetic resistance currently based on the Sm1 gene.
Read MoreThis project will integrate marker assisted breeding and high-throughput genotyping technology into traditional breeding programs to allow for early and efficient selection of cultivars with superior traits for pest resistance, agronomic performance, and grain quality.
Read MoreThe project will target newly identified ergot resistance genes and introgress them into the most recent elite germplasm.
Read MoreThis project will establish a Canada-wide pre-breeding platform that will supply all Canadian wheat breeding programs with useful markers and germplasm carrying new resistance genes, as well as a searchable database that will contain all relevant data collected during the evaluation process.
Read MoreThis project will provide further improvements in disease/pest resistance (especially for FHB and rust) in the forms of effective gene pyramids and desirable pest resistance combinations in high-yielding, agronomically superior cultivars adapted to the various wheat production regions.
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