OAC PROF HONOURED FOR ‘SEED OF THE YEAR'
Prof. David Wolyn, Plant Agriculture, was honoured at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair as the winner of the first “Seed of the Year” competition. He was recognized for developing Green Millennium asparagus, which has been on the market for eight years and now accounts for 70 per cent of all asparagus seed sold in Ontario. It has become a major contributor to the competitiveness of the asparagus industry. Two other seed varieties developed in the Department of Plant Agriculture were finalists in the competition — OAC Kent, a soybean developed by Prof. Istvan Rajcan, and OAC Rex, a white bean developed by Prof. Peter Pauls, former professor Tom Michaels and technician Tom Smith.

TREVORS ELECTED FELLOW
Prof. Jack Trevors, Environmental Biology, has been elected a Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (WIF), centred at Huddersfield, England. WIF has more than 1,000 members and is in the process of designing, building and operating the Open Research Establishment for the benefit of all humankind and operating more than 1,000 centres throughout the world.