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The Canadian beef industry contributes more than $20B annually to the national economy, yet is challenged to remain globally competitive, use resources efficiently, and address human health concerns, climate change and environmental sustainability. This project will drive the adoption of genomic tools in the Canadian beef industry by generating more accurate breeding values in order […]

Pathogen contamination in meat has a very significant economic impact on the meat industry and a serious health impact for the public. Current testing protocols involve culture of material from meat products with serological or molecular confirmation. Since there continues to be recalls of beef after the product has been moved to the retail or

The consumption of food infected with diseases can lead to serious human health problems, violent gastrointestinal disease and potentially death, and to disastrous economic consequences to the agri-food industry due to food recalls. This project contains a research and development consortium composed of experts from academia, federal government agencies, food testing industry (PBR Laboratories Inc.),

Triticale, the only man-made crop, results from a recent hybrid between rye and wheat. Triticale is a high yield grain and biomass plant that has an excellent degree of adaptability to abiotic stress and resistance to numerous diseases plaguing other cereal crops in North America. The development of triticale as an industrial platform has been

This project aims to sequence the genome of Brassica species, including canola and assess genetic variation in the protein coding regions of the genome. This is a collaborative project involving the National Research Council, Agriculture and Agri‐Food Canada, and nine Industrial partners. The genomic resources developed from this project will be a major milestone in

A key to maintaining and improving Canada’s position as leaders in grain production lies in crop improvement, a field of research that increasingly uses genomic approaches to identify genetic factors involved in the climatic adaptation of particular crops. The project will focus on three economically important crops – wheat, barley, and rye. Drawing on extensive