Plant Health & Protection Projects

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.

 

Biology and management of turfgrass diseases

Lead Applicant: Tom Hsiang

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 2

Funding Cycle: 2020/2021

Research Centre: NA

Research Summary: Examining: 1) commercial and in-development products for controlling turfgrass diseases; and 2) exploring fungicide resistance in turfgrass pathogens.

 

Herbicides and cover crops for improved corn establishment

Lead Applicant: François Tardif

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2020/2021

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centres - Ridgetown & Elora

Research Summary: Investigating how to ensure normal crop yield while also maximizing cover crop growth through factors related to cover crop and herbicide use.

 

Development of a sustainable pest management program for the box tree moth - a pest of the nursery and landscape industry

Lead Applicant: Cynthia Scott-Dupree

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2020/2021

Research Centre: NA

Research Summary: Developing an integrated pest management program for box tree moth, an invasive insect pest recently discovered in southern Ontario.

 

Solving Stemphylium: Enhanced integrated pest management of Stemphylium leaf blight and other foliar diseases of onion

Lead Applicant: Mary Ruth McDonald

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2020/2021

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Bradford

Research Summary: Examining factors related to fungicide use in onions to reduce disease risk.

 

Genetic dissection of the resistance to Soybean Cyst Nematode (SCN) using advanced functional genomic tools and developing Ontario-adapted SCN-Resistant Cultivars

Lead Applicant: Mehrzad (Milad) Eskandari

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2020/2021

Research Centre: Ontario Crops Research Centre - Ridgetown

Research Summary: Developing new Ontario-adapted soybean varieties resistant to soybean cyst nematode (SCN) and developing genetic-based tools to accelerate the development of SCN-resistant varieties.

 

Herbicide-resistant weeds in Ontario - surveys, mechanism of resistance, and development of integrated management strategies

Lead Applicant: Peter Sikkema

Research Priority: Plant Health & Protection

Program Type: Tier 1

Funding Cycle: 2020/2021

Research Centre: NA

Research Summary: Developing integrated weed management strategies to address herbicide-resistant weeds in Ontario.