Plant Health & Protection Projects

Regional approach to advance integrated management tools to minimize disease loss from tar spot on corn


Lead Applicant: David Hooker

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2023/2024

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Ridgetown

Close encounters: Improving greenhouse IPM (Integrated Pest Management) outcomes through experience-based learning


Lead Applicant: Rose Buitenhuis

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Knowledge Translation and Transfer – Mobilization

Funding Cycle: 2023/2024

Research Centre: NA

Study and management of summer diseases of apples


Lead Applicant: Katerina Jordan

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2023/2024

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre – Simcoe

Advancing insect resistance management for Ontario’s riskiest corn pests


Lead Applicant: Jocelyn Smith

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2023/2024

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Ridgetown

Evaluation of management practices for SCN in Ontario to support the SCN Coalition


Lead Applicant: Mehrzad (Milad) Eskandari

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2023/2024

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Cedar Springs & Ridgetown

Determining the biology and impact of the canola flower midge on spring canola in Ontario


Lead Applicant: Rebecca Hallett

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2023/2024

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre – Elora

Impact of new emerging Fusarium strains on mycotoxins in Ontario


Lead Applicant: Art Schaafsma

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2023/2024

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Ridgetown

Detoxification of mycotoxins in Fusarium head blight of wheat


Lead Applicant: Jennifer Geddes-McAlister

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection 

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2023/2024

Research Centre: NA

Agricultural robotics for vegetable production and weed management


Lead Applicant: Mary Ruth McDonald

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection 

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2023/2024

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Bradford

Monitoring and management of clubroot on canola and brassica vegetables in Ontario


Lead Applicant: Mary Ruth McDonald

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection Projects

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2022/2023

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre – Bradford