Seed Testing

My R&D team at 20/20 Seed Labs Inc. has been working on and off for the past eight years to develop a usable, working DNA-based test for soybean cyst nematode (SCN).

We’ve seen two phenomena play out in 2021 as far as weather goes: inadequate precipitation causing drought and extended...

A couple of months ago I wrote about the Spornado, a passive spore catcher first successfully deployed by potato growers in Ontario to detect late blight spores.

At the end of the month, our students will be finished their time at the school we set up in our Nisku, Alta., headquarters at the start of the pandemic.

A Spornado system in a field. The Spornado catches spores in the air which can then be tested for traces of fusarium....

Photo: 20/20 Seed Labs It’s been nearly a year since Alberta changed its regulations regarding Fusarium...

Photo: 20/20 Seed Labs It’s definitely not good news that nine new strains of clubroot — a disease that can kill canola...

In previous columns we covered the threats posed by fusarium, sclerotinia and aphanomyces. Ascochyta is the next one we...

Root rot in pea is caused by a complex of four different pathogens, one being aphanomyces. Aphanomyces euteiches is a newer...