Competitive Production Systems Projects

Phenotyping SoyMAGIC population to uncover genetic control of drought tolerance

Lead Applicant: Hugh Earl

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Using a novel 'queen banking' approach combined with targeted application of probiotics to enhance domestic production of high-quality honeybee stocks

Lead Applicant: Emma Allen-Vercoe

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Decarbonizing Ontario greenhouse heating and CO2 production by simulating optimal technology configurations and operating protocols

Lead Applicant: William Lubitz

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Automation and autonomy for growing strawberry in greenhouses

Lead Applicant: Medhat Moussa

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Developing a harvesting robot for tomato greenhouses: Expanded field testing and enhancing performance

Lead Applicant: Medhat Moussa

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

How food labels and social nudges change market outcomes for vertically farmed products: An experimental economics study through the lens of artefactual markets

Lead Applicant: Tongzhe Li

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Data-driven sustainable soilless growing media formulation for container plant production

Lead Applicant: Sheng Yang

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

An on-farm assessment of seedbed properties, seeding performance, and stand establishment in high-residue cropping systems

Lead Applicant: Joshua Nasielski

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Hexanal as a mobiliser to channel nutrients into fruits and mitigating bitterpit in apple

Lead Applicant: Jayasankar Subramanian

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: NA

Developing commercial scale agronomic practices and the value chain for sesame seed in Ontario

Lead Applicant: Rene Van Acker

Research Priority: Competitive Production Systems

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2024/2025

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Simcoe