Meet Prof. Ali Navabi Descriptive Transcript Summary: Prof. Ali Navabi describes his wheat breeding research program, what he enjoys most about his research and mentions a current project he is working on with a student. 00:00 - 00:05 [Music plays; White screen fades in to show University of Guelph logo; red and black text appears] Text: :60 Second Snapshots Meet the Profs of the Ontario Agricultural College 00:05 - 00:09 [Screen fades to show video of Prof. Ali Navabi speaking in front of glass walled classroom; University of Guelph logo and white text on a black box fade in at bottom with text: Prof. Ali Navabi Grain Farmers of Ontario Professorship in Wheat Breeding, Department of Plant Agriculture. Music fades out.] Ali: My research program is a wheat breeding and genetics research program. 00:09 - 00:30 The research that we do is in two components mainly. One component is developing new varieties for producers in Ontario and the other components of our research is conducting genetic studies on traits that are important for the growers. Things like, uh, high-yield, disease resistance, high-quality. 00:39 - 00:55 [Screen quickly fades out and in, returning to Prof. Ali Navabi speaking in front of glass walled classroom] Ali: Plant breeding is an exciting profession. What I like about plant breeding is when I can work my breeding nurseries in the field and I can see all the variation that exists within the material that I'm working with. More exciting than that is that I can use plant breeding technologies to combine desirable trades into a single variety and that variety can benefit producers. 00:55 - 01:15 [Screen quickly fades out and in, returning to Prof. Ali Navabi speaking in front of glass walled classroom] Ali: Fusarium head blight is an important disease for wheat growers in Ontario and a graduate student in my program is studying the genetics of resistance to Fusarium head blight, and he's trying to develop new strategies for breeding programs to be able to more efficiently select for resistance against the disease. 01:15 - 01:20 [Music plays; Screen fades in to show OAC logo on a white background, red website link] Text: www.uoguelph.ca/oac [Screen fades to black]