Plant Breeding

This week, we had to shut down operations at our field lab. Like all breeding programs at the CDC, we are not quite ready...

I grew up in Inner Mongolia on a livestock farm where my family still grows a lot of forages. When I came to Canada...

As a plant pathologist, people often chuckle and ask me if I enjoy killing plants.Like a medical researcher who experiments on mice, I know...

Football fans around the country recently watched the Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the Grey Cup. Watching the game, I was...

We are at an exciting time in wheat — especially because we have access to more knowledge and information than I had when I...

Plant-based protein is a hot topic in the breeding community, and for good reason. The potential of pulses is being realized more than ever...

Let me get this out of the way right now: Yes, I like to drink beer! And yes, it’s also one reason I have...

Competition is a big word, and one that’s not often associated with a “public” institution like the Crop Development Centre.After all, public research institutions...

I just got back from a trip to Japan working with flax breeders. As the breeder for Western Canada’s only remaining flax breeding program,...

As a breeder I work in two different worlds, both of them vastly different but with the same goal — to diversify a crop...