• Leguminous green manure can drive the stabilisation of the increased soil organic carbon on dryland 

  Yao, Z.; Xu, Q.; Chen, Y.; Liu, N.; Huang, L.; Adl, S.; Zhang, D.; Li, Y.; Zhang, S.; Cao, W.; Zhai, B.; Wang, Z.; Gao, Y. (2019-03-05)

  Quantifying field management on stabilised soil organic carbon (SOC) can be utilised to elucidate the management efficacy on mitigating climate change over the long-term. To achieve this goal, we measured the physico-chemically ...

• Yield losses in blackleg of canola and pyraclostrobin sensitivity in populations of Leptosphaeria maculans 

  Wang, Y.; Hwang, S.-F.; Akhavan, A.; Ahmed, H.; Turnbull, G.; Strelkov, S. (2019-03-05)

  Blackleg of canola (Brassica napus L.), caused by Leptosphaeria maculans (Desm.) Ces.& de Not., is an important disease worldwide. In Canada, blackleg is managed mainly by the cultivation of resistant or moderately resistant ...

• Response of soybean and lentil to a seed-row placed nitrogen- phosphorus fertilizer blend in a Brown Chernozem in south-central Saskatchewan 

  Dona, W.H.G.; Schoenau, J.J.; King, T. (2019-03-05)

  Pulse crops are able to supply their nitrogen requirement through fixation in symbiosis with rhizobia bacteria, but a small amount of nitrogen may be desirable to carry the crop until the fixation process establishes. ...

• Determining soil nitrogen (N) processes using enzymology in response to varying N treatments across four diverse Brassica napus (canola) lines 

  Williams, S.; Vail, S.; Parkin, I.; Arcand, M. (2019-03-05)

  Nitrogen (N) is an important plant nutrient, and it is the primary constituent of plant nucleotides and proteins, but it is usually the most limiting nutrient in the soil. Improving N use efficiency in agricultural crops ...

• The impact of DCD and NBPT concentration on nitrification and volatilization 

  Karamanos, R.; Holzapfel, C.; Nybo, B.; Puurveen, D.; Shirtliffe, S. (2019-03-05)

  Nitrification inhibitors are used in agriculture to slow the conversion of ammonium to nitrate by inhibiting ammonia monoxygenace (AMO), which is found within the Nitrosomonas bacteria. There are two ways to inhibit ...

• Effect of subsurface and surface tillage on structure and permeability of Solonetzic and Chernozemic soils over two years 

  Avila, R.; Schoenau, J.J.; King, T.; Si, B.C.; Grevers, M. (2019-03-05)

  Excessive compaction in wet Chernozemic soils induced by field traffic may adversely alter soil structure, inhibit soil aeration, restrict water infiltration and nutrient uptake, and inhibit plant root development, affecting ...

• Sod-seeding for pasture rejuvenation: a review 

  Jefferson, P.; Kowalchuk, T.; Wotherspoon, D. (2019-03-05)

  Pasture productivity declines over time and producers need tools to rejuvenate pastures to restore productivity and ensure environmental and economic sustainability. Sod-seeding for pasture rejuvenation has been researched ...

• Clubroot development and quantification of Plasmodiophora brassicae DNA in canola root tissue following treatment with lime products 

  Fox, N.; Hwang, S.F.; Manolii, V.P.; Turnbull, G.; Strelkov, S.E. (2019-03-05)

  Clubroot (Plasmodiophora brassicae Wor.,) is a soil-borne disease that has become a constraint to canola (Brassica napus L.) production in Alberta, Canada. The disease is managed primarily by the planting of clubroot ...

• Dynamics of root-associated fungal community of canola genotypes in Saskatchewan soils 

  Bazghaleh, N.; Mamet, S.D.; Bell, J.; Morales, Z.; Taye, Z.; Williams, S.; Arcand, M.; Lamb, E.; Parkin, I.; Siciliano, S.D.; Vail, S.; Helgason, B. (2019-03-05)

• Allelic diversity of HMW and LMW glutenin subunits and ω-gliadins in Canadian hard red spring bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) developed over 150 years 

  Fleitas, M.C.; Hucl, P.; Båga, M.; Dieleman, L.A.; Chibbar, R.N (2019-03-05)

  Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a major cereal crop that is grown around the world. Wheat based products are an important component of human diet as source of calories and proteins. The wheat grain storage proteins are ...

• Crop sequence study of fusarium head blight on wheat (Triticum aestivum) and barley (Hordeum vulgare) in the Canadian prairies 

  Oviedo-Ludena, M.A.; Kutcher, R.; Wang, L. (2019-03-05)

  Fusarium head blight (FHB) has become a major limitation to cereal crop production across much of the prairies in recent years, particularly for bread and durum wheat growers, and the disease is also impacting barley ...

• The influence of synthetic mulches to improve certified organic hardneck garlic production in the British Columbia southern interior 

  Carr, M.A.; Congreves, K.A. (2019-03-05)

  Garlic (Allium sativum) is one of the most commonly used vegetables in the world and its production is continually increasing. In combination with the organic food trend, the demand for certified organic garlic is of ...

• Free-living nitrogen fixation in Saskatchewan agriculture 

  Kumar, M.; Capeau, B.; Paupescu, L.; Knight, J.D.; Adl, S. (2019-03-05)

• Economic assessment of pulse crop rotations in western Canada 

  Khakbazan, M.; Gan, Y.; Bandara, M.; Huang, J. (2019-03-05)

  Pulse crops have become essential to farming practices in the Northern Great Plains, but little has been studied how rotation systems with different crop mixes affect the economic returns. Initiated in 2010, a four-year ...

• GreenSTEM’s microbe technology is an efficient, effective, and affordable way to clean up fuel and chemical spills 

  Gillis, M.; Ramadan, R.; Boubakir, Z.; Repas, T.; Kaminskyj, S. (2019-03-05)

  Petroleum hydrocarbons are used as fuel and for chemical synthesis. If spilled, fuels and chemicals poison our soil and water, causing local environmental disasters. Bioremediation uses organisms to clean up (remediate) ...

• The carbon life cycle assessment of the production of shelterbelt species in Saskatchewan 

  Rudd, L.; Belcher, K.; Kulshreshtha, S. (2019-03-05)

  Shelterbelt tree and shrub adoption has been a major landscape management practice on agricultural land in Saskatchewan throughout the 1900s. Shelterbelt trees were distributed to landowners, free of charge, from 1901 to ...

• Observations of fertilizer absorption of atmospheric water 

  Cowell, L. (2019-03-05)

  Fertilize salts are subject to adsorption of atmospheric water plus condensation of water within fertilizer handling systems and fertilizer applicators. This can lead to significant problems in both application and safe ...

• The origins of aster leafhoppers to the western Canadian prairies 

  Pusz-Bochenska, K.; Wist, T.; Dumonceaux, T.; Svendsen, E.; Prager, S.; Olivier, C.; Hobson, K. (2019-03-05)

• Genetic variation and stability of agronomic and quality traits in soybean varieties grown in western Canada between 2013 and 2018 

  Daba, K.; Arganosa, G.; Warkentin, T.D. (2019-03-05)

  Soybean is one of the major crops of the world, but relatively new to western Canada, especially areas west of Morden, Manitoba. Expansion of soybean production to these Canadian Prairies has been slow due to a lack of ...

• Forage yield and quality, cattle grazing capacity, cost of production and soil carbon in an annual polycrop mixture versus barley swath grazing 

  Toews, J.; Schoenau, J.J.; Larson, K.; Biligetu, B.; Penner, G.; Lardner, H.A. (2019-03-05)

  The extensive swath grazing systems of barley (Hordeum vulgare) and an annual polycrop mixture were evaluated for forage yield, forage quality, cattle grazing capacity, and cost of production in 2017 and 2018. A 13.2 ha ...

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