Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

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Ontario

Ottawa

Ottawa

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Operating name: Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre



Overview : The Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre(ECORC)- Ottawa
develops new varieties of corn, wheat, barley, oats and soybeans
for Eastern Canada; and biosystematic information and land
resource management systems for sustainable production throughout
Canada.
At ECORC, more than 70 scientists and 240 support employees work
in multidisciplinary teams, in partnership with national and
international public and private sector organizations. Research
and development programs are focused in three areas: CROPS
Research goals are to: -Develop winter wheat, oats and barley, with disease resistance
and value-added seed traits.
-Develop soybeans and corn with early maturity, and tolerance to
cool growing conditions.
- Develop supporting technologies for varietal development such
as crop transformation, haploidy, market assisted selection,
and disease diagnosis.
-Advance knowledge of the regulation, expression,isolation and
characterization of genes for useful genetic modification of
plants.
- Define alternative land management practices relating crop
adaptation advances to soil and atmospheric conditions.
LAND AND AGRONOMY
Research and development goals are to: - Cooperate with a network of land resource specialists to
maintain and upgrade national soil and climate databases.
- Develop new knowledge in soil water, climate and crop-yield
modelling; land use, cropping systems and remote sensing; soil
quality; and the dynamics of agri-environmental indicators.
- Develop methodology to evaluate emerging environmental, soil
conservation, land resource quality, and lands resource
availability issues.
SYSTEMATICS ENTOMOLOGY/MYCOLOGY/BOTANY AND BIODIVERSITY
Research and development goals are to: - Develop identification aids, computerized and molecular
information systems and predictive classification schemes for
plants, insects and fungi.
- Identify crop and microbial genetic resources to support crop
breeding programs.
- Collaborate with national integrated pest management and
biological control programs.
- Provide information essential to protect Canada's borders from
invasive pests and support the Canadian strategy on biodiversity.
- Create and maintain collections and advanced databases on the
systematic of plants, insects and fungi.
Environmental Profile
Projects Undertaken: A 5 year Great Lakes Water Quality project, on pesticide persistence and leaching in Great Lakes Watershed soils; a 3 year St. Lawrence River Ecosystems project, on heavy metal ion binding and leaching in agricultural soils on the Raisin River Watershed; environmental indicators for agricultural ecosystems; a report on the health of Canada's agricultural soils; biotechnology for crop protection and crop variety development.
Scientific Network: Part of the Research Branch network of Centres of Excellence in Agri-Food research across Canada; collaboration with many University Departments; linkages with other Federal Departments and Provincial Governments; various agreements with private sector companies.
Sector(s): Agriculture; environmental Products - Services.
Country of Ownership: Canada
Year Established: 1995
Exporting: Yes
Primary Industry (NAICS): 541710 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering and Life Sciences
Primary Business Activity: Government
Total Sales ($CDN): $1,000,000 to $4,999,999
Number of Employees: 450

Services:
Land use modelling and expert systems, Biotechnology

Products:
Corn inbreds; soybean, wheat, barley - oat varieties, Plant genetic transformation technologies, Plant marker assisted selection technologies, Identification aids, Molecular plant disease diagnostic technologies, Environmental products and services, On-line micro extraction and chemical analysis of slurried solids by hplc, Soil conservation - crop productivity expert system.

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