Plant Health & Protection Projects

Masked mycotoxin content in winter wheat cultivars to enhance development of Fusarium resistance in Ontario wheat

Lead Applicant: Helen Booker

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection Projects

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2022/2023

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Elora

Developing novel native grapevine rootstocks (vitis riparia michx) and enhancing their supply as clean stock for the Canadian Grapevine Certification Network

Lead Applicant: Helen Fisher

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection Projects

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2022/2023

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Station - Simcoe

Semiochemical management tactics for Colorado potato beetle

Lead Applicant: Rebecca Hallett

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2021/2022

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Simcoe

Innovative weed management strategies for control of emerging weed biotypes in dry beans - Acceptable herbicide residues in beans for export markets.

Lead Applicant: Peter Sikkema

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2021/2022

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

Identification and management of Pythium diseases of carrot

Lead Applicant: Mary Ruth McDonald

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2021/2022

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Bradford

Modernizing management of true armyworm in Ontario

Lead Applicant: David Hooker

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2021/2022

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Ridgetown, Winchester

Developing crop specific recommendations for biological control in cannabis sativa to improve the effectiveness of integrated pest management

Lead Applicant: Cynthia Scott-Dupree

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2021/2022

Research Centre: NA

Garlic germplasm and clean seed production

Lead Applicant: Rebecca Hallett

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Special Initiatives Projects

Funding Cycle: 2020/2021

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre- New Liskeard

Research Summary: Improving disease-free garlic seed production efficiency in Ontario.

 

Vegetable crop management and variety evaluation

Lead Applicant: Rene Van Acker

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 2

Funding Cycle: 2020/2021

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Simcoe

Research Summary: Evaluating current and new fungicides to manage downy mildew in vine crops and exploring potential pest management approaches that could be used with existing tools.

 

Weed control in processing vegetables

Lead Applicant: Darren Robinson

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 2

Funding Cycle: 2020/2021

Research Centre: Ontario Crop Research Centre- Ridgetown

Research Summary: Examining weed control and tolerance to herbicides on vegetable crops for which those herbicides are not currently registered.