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New Crop Varieties: The Journey from Lab to Field – Registration

After years of varietal development, the most promising varieties are selected to begin the process of registering them for commercial use. Under Canadian legislation, the Seeds Act and Seeds Regulations govern the testing, inspection, quality, and sale of all seeds. This legislation ensures that all seeds, whether imported or developed domestically, are proven to be safe for production and consumption before they reach the fields of Canadian farmers. In this final blog of the #LabtoField series, we explore how newly developed crop varieties become registered seed for use in Canada.

By Chelsea Sutherland, 2 weeks2 days ago

Agriculture

The Crop Development Centre at the University of Saskatchewan

48 Years of Innovation Success Founded in 1971, the University of Saskatchewan’s Crop Development Centre (CDC) focuses on research and development of new crop varieties. Over the years the varieties have expanded to include: spring wheat, durum wheat, canary seed, barley, oats, flax, field peas, lentils, chickpeas, faba beans and Read more…

By Stuart Smyth, 3 months3 months ago

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New Crop Varieties: The Journey from Lab to Field – Varietal Testing at the U of S Grains Innovation Lab

Part 7: Varietal Testing at the U of S Grains Innovation Lab This is the seventh of a series of #LabToField blogs that explain the yearly cycle of variety development. Click here to read Part 1: Phytotrons, Part 2: Agriculture Greenhouses, Part 3: The U of S Seed Lab, Part Read more…

By Chelsea Sutherland, 4 months3 months ago

Agriculture

New Crop Varieties: The Journey from Lab to Field – Seeding

Part 4: Seeding Variety Test Plots This is the fourth of a series of #LabToField blogs that will explain the yearly cycle of variety development. Click here to read Part 1: Phytotrons, Part 2: Agriculture Greenhouses, or Part 3: The U of S Seed Lab. Kernen Research Farm The majority Read more…

By Chelsea Sutherland, 8 months3 months ago

The main entrance to the Crop Science Field Laboratory

Agriculture

New Crop Varieties: The Journey from Lab to Field – Seed Lab

Part 3: Developing New Varieties at the Crop Science Field Laboratory This is the third post of a series of #LabToField blogs that will explain the yearly cycle of variety development. Click here to read Part 1: Phytotrons or Part 2: The Agriculture Greenhouses The Crop Science Field Laboratory The Crop Science Read more…

By Chelsea Sutherland, 8 months3 months ago

New

New Crop Varieties: The Journey from Lab to Field – Greenhouses

Part 2: A Visit to the Agriculture Greenhouses This is the second post of a series of #LabToField blogs that will explain the yearly cycle of variety development. Click here to read Part 1: Phytotrons. U of S Celebrating Hort Week: May 4 to 12, 2019 “Connect with like-minded gardeners Read more…

By Chelsea Sutherland, 9 months3 months ago

Agriculture

New Crop Varieties: The Journey from Lab to Field – Phytotron

Spring has sprung. As the sun and warm temperatures melt away the remnants of winter, farmers across Canada are gearing up for seeding. Throughout the winter, hours have been spent choosing the best crop varieties for each farm operation. While this happens yearly, have you ever stopped to consider the Read more…

By Chelsea Sutherland, 9 months3 months ago

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Experts are Hopeful for More Nutritious Foods

Numerous other consumer benefits expected Over the past three years, my research team has been surveying an international panel of experts about genome editing. This panel of experts consists of over 700 experts from around the world which include plant breeders, regulators and corporate regulatory officials. Since we began, we Read more…

By Stuart Smyth, 9 months9 months ago

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How Long is Something Novel?

Exploring when regulatory oversight is no longer required In Canada, new plant varieties are regulated based on the final product, not the process used to create the variety. For example, a herbicide-tolerant canola variety is regulated based on the traits that make the new variety novel, not the breeding process Read more…

By Stuart Smyth, 11 months ago

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The Dawning of a New Era in Plant Breeding

Gene Editing and Plant Biotechnology Gene editing technologies have emerged from the broader field of agricultural biotechnology, sometimes referred to as the gene revolution of agriculture. Gene editing allows for single gene-specific mutation, while standard mutagenic breeding resulted in tens of thousands of gene mutations. Mutagenesis has been used in Read more…

By Stuart Smyth, 2 years2 years ago

Plant Breeding

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