The pathogen (P. brassicae) populations in western Canada is evolving rapidly. It is extremely important to have canola cultivars with new sources of resistance avialabe to canola producers in Saskatchewan.
The Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) was the first veterinary college in North America to begin a honey bee research and teaching program, recognizing the high importance of pollinators for the long-term sustainability of agriculture and food security.
Pathotying with the CCD or race profiling with the NILs is a phenotyping based approach, which can be tedious and time consuming. A genotyping based method could be an ultimate solution for race profiling.
Understanding weed biology is the first BMP for reducing risk of herbicide resistance. This study will result in an understanding of different cleavers biotypes that exist across the Prairies, their emergence phenology, and some of their biological characteristics.
This work will provide crucial information needed by the agricultural industry and growers: field-scale data on how farmers may best balance agronomic and environmental outcomes by adjusting either the timing of fertilizer application or the fertilizer formulation.
Researchers and breeders will have greater confidence that the clubroot material they are working with is actually the correct pathotype, and that a pathotype shift hasn’t occurred part way through their research experiment and/or clubroot resistance breeding program.
The study will compare 1) uncoated and 2) polymer coated mono-ammonium phosphate, 3) liquid ammonium polyphosphate, 4) diammonium phosphate, 5) triple superphosphate, 6) ammonium phosphate sulfate, 7) struvite and 8) granular rock phosphate in broadcast versus banded placement.
This will accelerate the breeding of improved canola varieties as breeders from academia/government/industry use this service to phenotype larger breeding programs. This builds research capacity at GIFS, and will provide a useful phenotyping platform that will be utilized in future research proposals.
Objectives: Development of pulse protein.
Our proposal describes ethanol and small molecule extraction. This process is similar to hexane extraction used to recover oil but uses potable anhydrous ethanol as the solvent. Our local industries can produce potable anhydrous ethanol and also recover the ethanol after it has been used for extraction.
This research will promote the use of these important Canadian feed resources, effectively in animal nutrition. A comprehensive database on the chemical and nutritional profiles will be generated and specifications on the digestible energy and available amino acids and P contents for poultry and swine will be developed.
MORSE has the potential to increase the adoption of variable rate technologies, which could increase production in SK by 5% while improving environmental sustainability. It could revolutionize the way that agronomic experiments are done by replacing the conventional small plot experiments which have higher variability in the results.
