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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, 1 week1 month ago

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Starting at ‘A’ in Understanding Proteins: Amino Acids

Building proteins from amino acids I never thought I would be writing about the ‘building blocks’ of the human body, amino acids (AA) for a SAIFood blog. Being that SAIFood normally discusses the topics of sustainable agricultural innovations and food, covering what is new or pressing, who knew we’d be Read more…

By Savannah Gleim, 2 months2 months ago

Typical small custom combine used to harvest crop research plots

Agriculture

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

New Crop Varieties: The Journey from Lab to Field – Phytotron Part 6: Harvest This is the sixthof 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, Part 3: The U of S Seed Lab, Read more…

By Chelsea Sutherland, 4 months3 months ago

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Understanding the Implications of Plant Digital Sequence Information

This blog is based on the ‘Governance of Digital Sequence Information and Impacts for Access and Benefit Sharing’ technical report which you can find here. Digital Sequence Information (DSI) How do you design an access and benefit sharing (ABS) system that benefits both providers and users of plant genetic resources Read more…

By Diego Macall, 8 months8 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

Agriculture

Mobilizing Genome Resources to Feed the Future

Establishing DivSeek to drive innovation collaborations Problems with the provision of food are an annual occurrence, at multiple locations across the globe. On any given day, it’s estimated that 800 million individuals are food insecure. Fortunately, many scientists have been working hard to find new ways of increasing food security, Read more…

By Stuart Smyth, 10 months10 months ago

Food

Top Good News Ag & Food Stories of 2018

For an industry that is seemingly under continuous attack by anti-science and anti-corporate idealists, there has been some positive press for agriculture, food and science to celebrate. For agriculture using modern farming practices of genetically modified crops, chemicals and synthetic fertilizers, and scientific advancement, this has been a pretty decent Read more…

By SAIFood, 1 year1 year ago

Food

Real Human Lab Rats

Poison Squad set to determine acceptable limits for toxins in food If you’ve ever had the misfortune of eating something that results in food poisoning, then you know the agony that results. Curled up and shivering on the bathroom floor is not how any of us would want to spend Read more…

By Stuart Smyth, 1 year1 year ago

Agriculture

How to Kill Innovation Domestically

Or, be sure to regulate the process, rather than the product In 2002, Europe establishing a new regulatory agency, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to resolve its regulation problems regarding GM crops and other food safety challenges. This new agency assesses the risk of the process used to create Read more…

By Stuart Smyth, 1 year ago

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Sugary, Eerie, Haunting & Spooky

Is Halloween a front to sell more of a sugary GM plant? What is scarier? The ghosts and goblins that come to your door tonight trick or treating or the candy you’re handing out that likely has sugar in it that comes from a GMO plant? Well, some would have Read more…

By Stuart Smyth, 2 years3 months ago

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