Summary of Submissions and Field Trials of Plants with Novel Traits (PNTs) Proceeding under the Seeds Act, 2014
Table 1: Summary of approved submissions and number of approved field trials that have been planted in 2013. Please note that not all approved submissions have trials planted after authorization.
Year
Number of submissions
Number of field trials
2014
111
348
Table 2: Number of field trials per province categorized by crop species. Only trials that have been both authorized and planted are shown (including those terminated early) and do not include those that were authorized and terminated before planting.
Crop
Nfld
PEI
NS
NB
QC
ON
MB
SK
AB
BC
Alfalfa
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
Barley
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
Camelina
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
5
0
0
Canola
0
0
0
0
1
3
28
43
15
0
Corn
0
0
0
0
1
3
123
0
14
0
Pea
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
10
0
Poplar
0
0
0
0
10
1
0
0
0
0
Potato
0
0
4
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
Soybean
0
0
0
0
0
8
0
0
0
0
Wheat
0
0
0
0
0
0
30
26
13
0
Total
0
0
4
3
13
18
184
74
52
0
Table 3: Summary of 2014 field trials' breeding objectives. Data includes only trials that were both authorized and planted (trials terminated early are also included).
