plant science News Archive
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Grainews: Researchers chase resistance to bacterial leaf streak in Prairie cereals
October 21, 2025 —
“Bacterial leaf streak has been detected in Canada since the 1920s but we are seeing the re-emergence of it. And it’s worsening rapidly,” said Dr. Shaheen Bibi, a plant pathologist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Manitoba in Dr. Dilantha Fernando’s lab
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Radio-Canada: Temps durs pour le canola des Prairies
October 10, 2025 —
For decades, canola has been the economic engine of the Prairies.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Manitoba Co-operator: Cutting nitrogen in dry beans could pay off for farmers
September 3, 2025 —
Manitoba trials test whether farmers can apply less nitrogen to dry beans without losing yield, despite their typically poor nitrogen-fixing capacity.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
The Western Producer: Verticillium may undermine canola blackleg resistance
August 27, 2025 —
Verticillium stripe may compromise blackleg resistance protection in canola, new research out of Manitoba suggests
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Manitoba Co-operator: VIDEO: Yield-eating weeds and pest insects tackled at field day
August 27, 2025 —
The University of Manitoba put the spotlight on its in-progress crop research, including the concept of a nurse crop against flea beetles, corn weed control and high-protein canola fertilizer
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Moose Jaw Today: Verticillium disease discovery, UM doctoral student
August 19, 2025 —
University of Manitoba doctoral student, Shruti Kashyap, is studying early-season moisture as it relates to verticillium disease severity. That led to the discovery that plants with thick suberin-rich roots had lower disease. Kashyap worked with her advisors, Claudio Stasolla and Harmeet Chawla, Plant Science professors in the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences.
Research and International
Growing a better future: UM Natural Systems Farming research is feeding the world
August 15, 2025 —
For over 30 years, Dr. Martin Entz has been at the forefront of sustainable farming research.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Manitoba Co-operator: Is canola on the path to withstand verticillium?
August 15, 2025 —
Seed companies are starting to tout canola with some verticillium stripe tolerance; meanwhile, researchers have a line on a genetic trait that might physically block infection
Media Release: University of Manitoba welcomes Linda Schott as Potato Sustainability Chair
August 5, 2025 —
The University of Manitoba (UM) has appointed Dr. Linda Schott as the inaugural UM Research Chair in Potato Sustainability, a transformative initiative aimed at educating students and advancing innovation and sustainability in Manitoba’s thriving potato industry.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Manitoba Co-operator: Fungicide, glyphosate don’t hurt your hard red wheat quality
May 27, 2025 —
In terms of grain quality, this University of Manitoba-led research finds weather and variety matter most