Research

This project will maintain progress in breeding improved DON resistant barley varieties and to identify new tools to breed for DON resistance. Read More

This project will look at the effect of foliar fungicide strategies on the mitigation of FHB in barley. Read More

Markers developed in this proejct will accelerate the breeding process and make trait monitoring more accurate and cost effective over traditional phenotyping. Improved resistance to FHB will protect the producer's grades as well as milling and baking quality of Canadian… Read More

This project aims to begin rating commercialized Canadian varieties for competitiveness. In addition it will allow development of a methodology to take competitiveness testing forward into a framework such as the regional variety trials to continue rating of registered varieties… Read More

The proposed research is aimed at identifying germplasm lines and novel candidate genes/molecular markers that provide a unique opportunity for efficient and directed breeding of malting barley cultivars with optimum dormancy. Read More

This project would increase adoption of improved barley cultivars on farm and also may make PGR management practices more efficient. Read More

The purpose of this project is to use field trials in multiple locations across the Prairies to grow established and new Canadian malting barley varieties annually and to generate comprehensive and comparative data on barley quality, malting performance and malt… Read More

Diseases are one of the biggest foes associated with barley production in Canada; Fusarium head blight (FHB) in particular is the most dangerous as it produces mycotoxin in the grain thus affecting malting and marketing. This project has multi-faceted benefits… Read More

This project is a proof of concept for long-term potential development of new biodegradeable fungicides for field applications. Read More