UofG Wheat Breeding

Dr. Ron DePauw and Willie Vanderpol, from SeCan, visited our program today.

Finishing Spring Cereal planting with our Fusarium Nursery -Liam and Zhang doing a great job. Also, Kaitlyn and Natalie putting out Field tags. Very windy but grateful for the break from rain.

Our 2019 Advanced Yield Trial and Fall Rye germinating in the alleyways today!!

Save the date.... The University of Guelph's Wheat Breeding and Genetics program's field day will be on June 24th from noon to 4. More details to follow.... #ontag #wheat

@WheatBreeding 2017

Tags nicely done by @katarina_bosnic @WheatBreeding

Head selection @WheatBreeding

Our combine is I'll start roaring in the field soon @WheatBreeding

Spring FHB nursery. Today at ERS. @WheatBreeding @NavabiAlireza

Nick Wilker of @WheatBreeding @plantagguelph speaking to growers at #CRIBIT seeds open house about our Barley yield Trials

@WheatBreeding graduate students @Kamal_UoG and Emily Gordon taking NDVI readings in PUE trials. twitter.com/NavabiAlireza/…

Winter Wheat FHB nursery at Central Experimental Farm Ottawa for PhD student Harwinder Singh's project @plantagguelph @UofGuelphOAC.

Today at ERS @NavabiAlireza @WheatBreeding

Our @WheatBreeding WInter wheat #FHB nursery was a success. Today mist irrigation was moved to #springwheat nursery.

@WheatBreeding selections

@WheatBreeding team is selecting genotypes from ssd populations with @NavabiAlireza at Elora

P. recondita sensu stricto on Rye in hill plots at ERS. @NavabiAlireza

Selecting F5 hill plots derived from 2.5 gen/yr Winter Wheat SSD. Am I selecting too many? What was the genetic gain formulae again?

PhD student Harwinder Singh @plantagguelph @UofGuelphOAC scoring his FHB nursery; finding some with very low Disease.