plant science News Archive
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Cattle Country: Sustainable Agriculture – Exploring Net Zero, Indigenous Agriculture, Biodiversity
May 24, 2023 —
The following article was written by Peter Frohlich, National Centre for Livestock and the Environment (NCLE), University of Manitoba. It was originally published in Cattle Country in May 2023.
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Remembering Dr. Ed Larter
May 15, 2023 —
Dr. Edward (Ed) Nathan Larter, retired professor emeritus in the Department of Plant Science, passed away on May 9, 2023.
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Eight UM courses that’ll get you hands-on with climate change and make you a better Earth citizen
April 19, 2023 —
So you want to be a better Earth citizen. Good. We have a course for that. Lots of them, really.
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Better Farming Prairie: Reading FHB Resistance Ratings
January 6, 2023 —
UM research not only assists in assessing Fusarium head blight but helps guide breeding programs towards FHB resistance.
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Organic agronomy training aims to respond to growing demand from producers
December 20, 2022 —
A free course in early January offers agronomists and farmers the opportunity to learn from one of the Canada's top organic experts.
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
A new crop of academics join the Faculty
December 10, 2022 —
New professors and instructors from a variety of disciplines began with the Faculty in 2022.
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
New Plant Science prof to use bioinformatics to design resilient crops
December 1, 2022 —
Dr. Harmeet Singh Chawla joined the Department of Plant Science as Assistant Professor in Plant Genomics and Genetics on August 15, 2022.
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Top Crop Manager: “Immunizing” canola against blackleg
November 11, 2022 —
Biological technique developed at UM showed successful control of virulent pathogen in trial.
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
Research chair dedicated to integrated weed management
September 23, 2022 —
Dr. Dilshan Benaragama is the Manitoba Crop Protection Chair in Weed Management, thanks to the support of grower organizations.
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Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences
New plant science prof to delve into ecology and biology of weeds
September 12, 2022 —
Dilshan Benaragama joined the Department of Plant Science as an Assistant Professor and industry research chair in Crop Protection (Weed Science) from May 1, 2022.