International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
$265,000.00 CAD
≈ 3 Canadians' average pay for a year
- Department
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Recipient country
- Mexico
- Fiscal year
- 2021-2022
- Agreement period
- April 1, 2021 – March 31, 2022
- Reference
- aafc-aac:235-2021-2022-Q2-00116
Published purpose
The objective of this project is to fund the use of novel techniques, developed by scientists at CIMMYT, to screen 25 varieties of Canadian wheat for the expression of biological nitrification inhibition (BNI). The goal is to identify lines that express BNI so that these can be used in the creation of new varieties of Canadian wheat that can naturally inhibit nitrification; improving nitrogen use efficiency and reducing nitrogen lost to the surrounding environment through the leaching of nitrate and the gaseous losses of NO, N2O and N2.
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