Research
Research Projects
Crop Specific Research
Select a crop below to view all related research projects.
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Start Date: 2022
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Completion Date: 2025
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Project Status: Ongoing
This project will enable farmers to incorporate cover crops and their benefits into current cropping systems with equipment and resources already available to them. Results from this project will enable farmers to integrate CC into their systems while reducing costly… Read More
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Start Date: 2022
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Completion Date: 2025
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Project Status: Ongoing
The new source of Fusarium resistance (not yet tapped by local breeders), combined with the resistance already present in commercial cultivars, could reduce the impact of more aggressive F. graminearum chemotypes on grain yield and quality losses as well as… Read More
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Start Date: 2022
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Completion Date: 2026
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Project Status: Ongoing
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
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Start Date: 2022
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Completion Date: 2025
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Project Status: Ongoing
The results from this project will help determine whether it is possible to enhance the effects of the Sm1 gene in terms of protecting the grain yield of spring wheat as well as increasing the quality/grade of the harvested crop.… Read More
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Start Date: 2022
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Completion Date: 2023
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Project Status: Ongoing
Increasing the number of pre-registration flax sites in Manitoba, will incresae testing of lines under Manitoba growing conditions. Read More
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Start Date: 2022
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Completion Date: 2026
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Project Status: Ongoing
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
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Start Date: 2022
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Completion Date: 2025
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Project Status: Ongoing
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
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Start Date: 2022
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Completion Date: 2025
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Project Status: Ongoing
This project would increase adoption of improved barley cultivars on farm and also may make PGR management practices more efficient. Read More
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Start Date: 2022
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Completion Date: 2026
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Project Status: Ongoing
This study seeks to fill knowledge gaps on end-of-pipe treatment options for cold climates and undulating landscapes, specifically for saturated buffers, constructed wetlands and phosphorus removal structures. Additionally, the study seeks to demonstrate the practicality, affordability and effectiveness of these… Read More