CanolaWeek 2017 Presentations

Canola Industry Day December 5 :

Curtis Rempel Canola Council of Canada	Canola Council: Our strategy, our future
David Dzisiak DuPont Pioneer/Dow AgroSciences	DuPont / Dow updates Not Available
Jeff Bertholet BASF	Support of innovation and improving the yield potential of canola Not Available
Marco Valicenti Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada	*Agri-food economic strategy table: Positioning Canada's agri-food sector for long-term growth*
Aleksander Patrzykat National Research Council	The evolution of NRC’s Agri-Food programming: what’s around the corner Not Available
Wolfgang Friedt GCIRC	Prevailing challenges of rapeseed production and potential approaches for improvement – An outlook to IRC 2019
Lorin DeBonte Cargill:	A new generation of canola oils for food and feed
Lixi Jiang Zhejiang University	An overview of rapeseed industry in China: Past, present and future
Dane Froese Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives:	Update
Matthew Bernard Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture	2017 Saskatchewan Canola Update
Murray Hartman Alberta Agriculture and Forestry	2017 Alberta Canola Crop: A tale of two opposites Not Available
Meghan Moran Ontario Ministry of Agriculture	Canola in Ontario: Update on production, pests and priorities
Meghan Vankosky Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada	The Prairie Pest Monitoring Network: Looking back on 2017 and ahead to 2018
Raymond Gadoua Canola Council of Canada	WCC/RRC Report
Veronique Barthet Canadian Grain Commission	Quality of the 2017 canola harvest
Sakaria Liban DL Seeds	Breeding for Sclerotinia resistance in canola: Challenges and Opportunities
Heather Deobald Quantum Genetix	Testing for Sclerotinia in crop using novel DNA technology Not Available
Xiujie (Susie) Li InnoTech Alberta	A nanobiosensor for Sclerotinia stem rot forecasting
Igor Falak Pioneer Hi-Bred Production Company	Canola products with field resistance to Sclerotinia past, present, and future Not Available
Lone Buchwaldt AAFC	Things should start to get interestin' right about now

Canola Innovation Day December 7, 2017:

Kevin Rozwadowski Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada	CRISPR/Cas9 systems and applications for crop improvement Not Available
Janina Braatz Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel	Improved shatter resistance of canola by CRISPR/Cas9 and EMS mutagenesis
Mark Belmonte University of Manitoba	Protecting canola: Application of RNAi-based biocontrol against fungal pathogens Not Available
Rex Newkirk University of Saskatchewan	Current and future opportunities for canola meal in the livestock industry
Martin Reaney University of Saskatchewan	Not Available
Tim Sharbel Global Institute for Food Security	Fixing complex genotypes in plants: progress with apomixis in the Brassicaceae\| Not Available
Kristi Snell Yield10 Bioscience	Technologies for increasing seed yield and oil content in oilseed crops
Rod Snowdon Justus Liebig University, Germany	Remnants of recent polyploidy shape complex trait variation in Brassica napus
Leon Kochian Global Institute for Food Security	Next-generation technologies for tomorrow’s crops: getting to the roots of global food security
Bobbi Helgason Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada	Shifting the shape of soil and plant microbiomes in modern agriculture
David Yee PAMI	Star Wars and Star Trek: How technology may land on the farm of the future
Trent Myers DOT	DOT Autonomous Power Platform: Farming Reimagined