5th Canadian Wheat Symposium 2023

🌾UPDATE🌾 The 6th Canadian Wheat Symposium (CWS) will be held at University of Guelph in 2025. Dates TBD. We will pass on this Twitter handle to organizing committee of 6th CWS. Stay tuned and keep following for updates.

📢 Mark your calendar! The 4th International Wheat Congress heads to Bologna, Italy 🇮🇹 in 2026 🌾 Big ideas, global collaboration, and groundbreaking wheat research await. 📍 Stay in the loop: iwc2026.com #IWC2026Bologna #GlobalWheat #WheatConnect

An excellent article that's well worth the read. linkedin.com/posts/csga-acp…

Average prairie canola yield relative to spring wheat. From about 1990 to 2011, canola yield was gaining relative to wheat- driven by improved weed control, hybrid vigour, & the elimination of early maturing, lower yielding B.rapa, which was about 30% of canola acres

For those who are interested, the average canola-wheat yield difference has been widening in favour of wheat for quite some time.

Not too surprising... Canola-wheat yield difference widens this year producer.com/news/canola-wh…

Canada produces the world’s cleanest and best quality wheat! 🌾 So decided to showcase this cool poster from @Cereals_Canada on my office door.

Thank you @Warburtons @adamjdyck for hosting annual Wheat Breeder’s dinner at #PGDC25. @grafwheat @WheatSingh @AndyChen_Wheat @wheat_dr @pgdc_can Congratulations to all the breeders who got their lines endorsed.

Are you a post-doc researcher? Consider applying for our 3 EARLY-CAREER AWARDS by Jan. 31, 2025. Successful candidates will be invited to deliver an oral presentation at @17thICRPMC @globalrust @phytopathca joint conference at @UBC Details here: icrpmc2025.ca/conference-awa…

Other than admiring the beauty, I also love the sound of mature wheat.

Happy to share our new Nature publication as a part of openwildwheat.org Consortium (OWWC) phase 2. Shoutout to our @CBL_UA team @Erysiphales, Meng Li, @striiformis, @knaveen_vt for their contributions. Stay tuned for phase 3 of OWWC. @UAlberta nature.com/articles/s4158…

We are making plans on how to name our future cereal (mostly wheat) varieties & looking to add a prefix with varieties’ names. Which prefix do you think will rhyme well with names & help us build a brand around our research program?

We are pleased to announce the joint meeting of 17th International Cereal Rusts and Powdery Mildew Conference (ICRPMC) & Annual Meeting of Canadian Phytopathological Society (CPS) @phytopathca will be held @UBC Vancouver from June 15-22, 2025. Conference website coming soon...

Last week I had the pleasure to attend and deliver a student keynote talk @CWS2023! I made so many great connections with other students and researchers across the country. Thank you to the organizers for your hard work to make it happen!

Happy to attended the 5th Canadian Wheat Symposium! @CWS2023 @UBC @CBL_UBC Great talks and inspiring people 🤍🌾🌾🌾🤍

Dr. Sheryl Tittlemier, Manager of the Trace Organics and Trace Elements program in our Grain Research Lab, also presented yesterday at the Canadian Wheat Symposium (@CWS2023). Thanks for attending our sessions! #CdnAg #CWS2023 #AgSci twitter.com/CWS2023/status…

Had an amazing time with brilliant wheat scientist community @CWS2023 @UBC .Gratitude to incredible organizers for an outstanding event @CBL_UBC . Looking forward to future collaborations & more inspiring moments.

Dr. Santosh Kumar has been working on breeding wheat to ensure the crop is able to handle challenges such as climate change and extreme weather, hoping to bolster the world’s food supply and ensure farms are sustainable at the same time. bit.ly/3QFxdQN #bdnmb

Great talks, networking, food, entertainment, and a lot more at @CWS2023. A new benchmark for scientific meetings set by @gurcharn_brar and his team. Congratulations for organizing such a great symposium.

Huge thanks to #CWS2023 for the insightful discussions and kudos to @gurcharn_brar for a flawlessly organized conference! 👏 #CWS2023