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Confined Field Trials 1994

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Summary of Submissions and Field Trials of Plants with
Novel Traits (PNTs) Proceeding under the Seeds Act, 1994.

Year Number of Submissions Number of Field Trials
1994 105 772

Table 1: Summary of approved submissions (for which field trials took place) and approved field trials that have been carried out in 1994. Please note that not all approved field trials take place once authorized

Crop Nfld PEI NS NB QC ON MB SK AB BC
Brown Mustard

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

Canola/ napus

0

0

0

0

0

34

126

325

147

3

Canola/ rapa

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

13

0

0

Corn

0

0

0

0

0

17

0

0

0

0

Flax

0

0

0

0

0

0

13

15

1

0

Japanese trefoil

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

0

0

Potato

0

9

0

12

0

1

2

0

7

5

Soybean

0

0

0

0

0

10

0

0

0

0

Strawberry

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

Tobacco

0

0

0

0

0

5

0

0

0

0

Wheat

0

0

0

0

0

0

5

11

5

0

Total

0

9

0

12

0

67

147

367

160

10

Table 2: Provincial summary of field trials for individual crops as well as summary of field trials having taken place in each province. These numbers do not include authorized field trials which have not taken place.

Crop Latin Name Field Trials Breeding Objectives
Herbicide Tolerance Stress Tolerance Genetic Research Nutritional Change Modified Oil Composition Male Sterility/ Restoration Insect Resistance Fungal Resistance Virus Resistance Pharmaceutical/
industrial*
Other
Brown Mustard Brassica juncea 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0(0) 0
Canola/ napus Brassica napus 635 574 6 0 2 42 104 3 2 0 1(0) 0
Canola/ rapa Brassica rapa 14 14 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0(0) 0
Corn Zea Mays 17 14 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0(0) 0
Flax Linum usitatissimum 29 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0(0) 0
Japanese trefoil Lotus japonicus 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0(0) 1
Potato Solanum tuberosum 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 0 10 0(0) 0
Soybean Glycine max 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0(0) 0
Strawberry Fragaria x ananassa 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0(0) 0
Tobacco Nicotiana tabacum 5 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0(0) 0
Wheat Triticum aestivum 21 20 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0(0) 0
Total   772 662 9 1 3 42 112 34 2 13 1(0) 1

*Numbers that are not in brackets are the number of field trials where the PNT expressed a pharmaceutical compound; numbers in brackets are the number of field trials where the PNT expressed an industrial compound.

Table 3: Summary of field trials' breeding objectives. Data has been broken down into breeding objectives of individual crops and is based on authorized field trials having taken place. Please note that some field trials had more than one breeding objective, therefore the number of field trials listed under breeding objective may exceed the total number of trials authorized. "Other" breeding objectives include antibiotic resistance and yield enhancement.



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