| Barley | Integrated crop management | Triticale | Winter wheat | Technology transfer and market development
Barley - Project Objectives
Purpose: Through the process of genetic manipulation, the development of high yielding barley cultivars that are adapted to several production environments of Alberta and have the agronomic excellence and the resistance to diseases and insects necessary to support a sustainable barley production system. Further, to develop new cultivars of barley with specific quality to meet the needs of increasingly sophisticated local and international markets.
Specific Objectives: Barley Breeding/Variety Development
1. High yielding cultivars
2. Quality
a. High feed quality by class of livestock (hulled and hulless barley)
b. High malting quality (two-rowed types)
3. Multiple disease resistant cultivars
a. Scald resistance
b. Net-blotch resistance
c. Fusarium head blight resistance
d. Surface-borne and loose smut resistance
e. Root rot resistance
f. Stripe rust resistance
4. Early maturing cultivars
5. Post harvest
a. Improving sprouting resistance / dormancy
6. Special purpose barley cultivars
a. Strong straw (lodging resistance)
i. For production under irrigation and high fertility conditions
ii. For direct combining
b. Hulless cultivars
i. High energy feed types
ii. High quality protein feed types
iii. Food types and nutraceuticals
c. Annual forage cultivars
d. Abiotic Stress Tolerance
i. Drought Tolerance
ii. Salinity and acid soil tolerance
7. Maintenance and improvement of a diverse germplasm collection for cultivar improvement
Integrated Crop Management - Project Objectives
Purpose: Integrated Crop Management (ICM) enhances the development of crop production technologies that will lead toward a sustainable agricultural system of cereal crop production for the varied agro-climatic zones in Alberta.
Specific Objectives:
ICM Systems
1. Development of sustainable cropping systems in short season environments
a. Seedling development
b. Plant growth
c. Nutrient use efficiency
d. Soil health
2. Integrated crop production systems
a. Manipulation of agronomic factors for improved emergence and yield
b. Fertility
c. Seedbed utilization
d. Weed management strategies
e. Disease management strategies
3. Emerging agronomic and crop protection technologies
a. Time of weed removal
b. Varietal response to manipulated agronomic factors
c. Time and rate of fungicide
d. Annual forages (e.g. barley and triticale silage)
Crop Management Studies
1. Annual forage management studies to determine factors affecting biomass yields and nutritional quality
2. Tillage systems as a way of increasing yield and nutrient utilization of cereal crops.
Triticale - Project Objectives
Purpose: The development of high yielding and improved quality spring and winter triticale adapted to production over a range of agro-climatic conditions in Alberta
Specific Objectives:
Spring Triticale
1. Higher yielding cultivars
2. Maintain good lodging resistance
3. Reduce plant height
4. Earlier maturity cultivars
5. High protein content and quality
6. Higher annual forage yielding cultivars
7. Awnless cultivars for green feed production
8. Post-harvest sprouting resistant cultivars
9. High test weight
10. Maintenance and improvement in disease resistance
11. Maintenance and improvement of drought tolerance
12. Maintenance and improvement of germplasm
Winter Triticale
1. Improved winter hardiness
2. High yielding cultivars
3. Snow mold resistant cultivars
4. High protein content and quality
5. High forage potential (conventional and spring-seeded)
6. Sprouting resistant cultivars
7. High test weight
8. Leaf disease resistance
9. Improved drought tolerance
10. Maintenance and improvement of germplasm
Winter Wheat - Project Objectives
Purpose: The development of high yielding milling quality winter wheat (CWRW) adapted to the black and brown soil zones of Alberta.
Specific Objectives:
1. Improved winter hardiness
2. Higher yielding cultivars
3. Semi-dwarf cultivars
4. Snow mold resistant cultivars
5. Good milling quality (red or white)
6. Resistance to leaf diseases
a. Tanspot
b. Rusts
c. Takeall root rot
7. Earlier maturing cultivars
8. Sprouting resistance similar to spring wheat
9. Improved drought tolerance
10. Maintenance and development of germplasm
Technology Transfer and Market Development
Purpose:
- Publicize the results of research in a “farmer friendly” format on the website and in print
- Circulate the Cereal Research Report to industry
- Update technical information on Ropin’ the Web
- Develop new markets and improve existing ones for malt and feed barley
- Continue awareness program with Alberta Barley Commission
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