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Summary of Submissions and Field Trials of Plants with Novel Traits (PNTs) Proceeding under the Seeds Act, 2015
Year | Number of submissions | Number of field trials |
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2015 | 64 | 129 |
Crop | Nfld | PEI | NS | NB | QC | ON | MB | SK | AB | BC |
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Barley | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Camelina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
Canola | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 19 | 13 | 0 |
Pea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
Poplar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Potato | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wheat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 53 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 76 | 26 | 0 |
Crop | Barley | Camelina | Canola | Pea | Poplar | Potato | Wheat |
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Latin name | Hordeum vulgare | Camelina sativa | Brassica napus | Pisum sativum | Populus spp. | Solanum tuberosum | Triticum aestivum |
Total Trials | 2 | 8 | 37 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 65 |
Herbicide toleranceTable Note 1 | 0 | 5 | 29 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 63 |
Yield increase | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53 |
Modified oil composition | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Stress tolerance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fungal resistance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Pharmaceutical | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Male sterility | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Modified protein or amino acid content | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Modified carbohydrate content | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
Modified secondary metabolites | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Altered maturity or growth | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Selectable marker (incl. antibiotic resistance) | 2 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
Genetic research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Table Notes
- Table Note 1
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Please note that the herbicide tolerance trait may be used as a selectable marker and not as a breeding objective.