Research
Research Projects
Crop Specific Research
Select a crop below to view all related research projects.
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Start Date: 2020
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Completion Date: 2025
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Project Status: Ongoing
Our work will focus on the development and deployment of appropriate to marker-assisted selection of wheat DNA markers that will facilitate breeding of adapted to the prairie environment elite cultivars. These DNA markers and a germplasm carrying newly discovered resistance… Read More
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Start Date: 2021
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Completion Date: 2025
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Project Status: Ongoing
This project aims to breed more resilient crop varieties in the face of water stress Read More
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Start Date: 2020
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Completion Date: 2026
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Project Status: Ongoing
This project will maintain progress in breeding improved DON resistant barley varieties and to identify new tools to breed for DON resistance. Read More
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Start Date: 2020
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Completion Date: 2023
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Project Status: Ongoing
The long-term goal of this research, is to utilize natural immunity in wheat germplasm to identify new sources of effective resistance. The novel resistance genes identified will eventually be passed on to wheat breeding programs for development of FHB and… Read More
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Start Date: 2021
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Completion Date: 2025
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Project Status: Ongoing
This project will aim to develop new varieties, wth improved yields through the selection of lines with optimal reproductive and spike traits. Read More
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Start Date: 2021
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Completion Date: 2024
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Project Status: Ongoing
Management strategies are being challenged by the rapidly evolving and changing populations of these fungi, which are overcoming disease resistance genes and may be acquiring fungicide tolerance. In addition, these diseases can be caused by several different fungal species as… Read More
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Start Date: 2021
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Completion Date: 2024
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Project Status: Ongoing
This project will investigate the application of RNA-based fungicides to control major diseases of crops grown on the prairies, namely wheat and canola. This approach is based on proven research that has demonstrated that the application of RNA molecules directly… Read More
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Start Date: 2021
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Completion Date: 2022
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Project Status: Completed
This project will evaluate microbial populations in Manitoba soils and develop linkages to determine the effect of crop management practices on the soil microbial community. This is an important step to develop soil health assessments suitable for Manitoba growing conditions. Read More
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Start Date: 2021
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Completion Date: 2022
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Project Status: Completed
This project will create an additional tool to help growers manage weeds by improving the timing of weed control. Creating knowledge of the relationship between weed emergence timing, harvest timing and the impact of viable seed production will aid in… Read More