The production of primary commodities and value-added products is vital to Alberta. Ensuring Alberta producers are...
Research
On The Way To Nitrogen-Fixing Cereals
Cereal crops that fix their own nitrogen? Achieving this dream could result in major benefits for agriculture and the...
Becoming Seed Smart: The Most Important Thing You Can Do For Your Crop Is Check Your Seed’s Health
What’s the best thing you can do for your crops? Is it making sure they get enough water, sunlight and love? What...
Clubbing Clubroot: An Update On Breeding Clubroot-Resistant Canola
On the Prairies, clubroot appeared in Alberta in 2003, in Saskatchewan in 2008 and Manitoba in 2013. As any grower can...
Pioneering Work On Fusarium Head Blight In Rye
Unlike other cereal crops affected by Fusarium head blight (FHB), very little is known about FHB in fall rye from a...
AWC Announces $175,000 in Agronomy-Related Research Funding Through Integrated Crop Agronomy Cluster
The Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC) is pleased to announce funding commitments of $175,000 over five years through the...
Genome Canada and AAFC Funding
Genome Canada in partnership with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) has recently launched the 2018 Large-Scale...
Ramping up Variety Development
One of the most time-consuming parts of the crop breeding process is the time needed to grow successive generations of...
What Makes Cereal Crops More Stress-Tolerant?
Whether barley, wheat, maize or rice: The grass family includes all the major cereals. They are vital for feeding the...
Clubbing Clubroot
On the Prairies, clubroot appeared in Alberta in 2003, in Saskatchewan in 2008 and Manitoba in 2013. As any grower can...
Wind Farms Positively Impact Crops, U.S. Study Says
Iowa State University researchers have found that wind turbines located in agricultural fields are a plus for the...
Ag robot speeds data collection, analyses of crops as they grow
A new lightweight, low-cost agricultural robot could transform data collection and field scouting for agronomists,...
Pioneering work on Fusarium head blight in rye
Unlike other cereal crops affected by Fusarium head blight (FHB), very little is known about FHB in fall rye from a...
Root Microbiome Valuable Key to Plants Surviving Drought
Just as the microorganisms in our gut are increasingly recognized as important players in human health and behaviour,...
How climate change alters plant growth
Global warming affects more than just plant biodiversity – it even alters the way plants grow. A team of researchers...
Combination of resistance genes offers better protection for wheat against powdery mildew
University of Zurich (UZH) plant researchers have tested newly developed wheat lines with improved resistance to...
Pot Genetics: Why cannabis strains don’t all live up to their billing
Red Diesel, Moby Dick, Lemon Burst, or how about Girl Scout Cookies? All names for "bud," the cannabis flower, and...
Self-defense for plants
Salk scientists characterize unusual plant immune response to bacterial infection When you see brown spots on...
Speed breeding technique sows seeds of new green revolution
Pioneering new technology is set to accelerate the global quest for crop improvement in a development which echoes the...
Eye in the sky
The benefits of using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones as crop scouting tools are obvious. They enable...