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Cold Tolerant Rye

Rye Genetics Hold the Strongest Potential

Working to enhance the progress already made with spring wheat through the Crop Adaptation Genomics project, researchers shifted their focus to rye as a possibility of discovering a further level of frost tolerance. The molecular markers, genetic tags that help researchers track important genes, which were identified for cold tolerance in spring wheat can now be used in rye.

Cracking the code for cold-tolerance in rye has been a long-standing challenge, but researchers are very optimistic on the heels of the spring wheat progress.

Quick Facts

  • Project Leader(s):
    • Brian Fowler
      (University of Saskatchewan)
  • Project Manager:

    Chris Barker, Genome Prairie

  • Project Value:

    $8.1 Million

  • Genome Canada Contribution:

    $4.1 Million

  • Project Status:

    Complete (2007 – 2010)

  • Competition:

    Genome Canada 2006 Competition III

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CPMN – Canadian Prairie Metabolic Network

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COV3R – COVID-19 Rapid Regional Response

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2019 - 2023

4DWheat – Diversity, Discovery, Design and Delivery

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EVOLVES – Enhancing the Value of Lentil Variation for Ecosystem Survival

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FLOWTER – Floating Wetland Treatments to Enhance Remediation

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