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Confined Field Trials 1995

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Summary of Submissions and Field Trials of Plants with
Novel Traits (PNTs) Proceeding under the Seeds Act, 1995.

Year Number of Submissions Number of Field Trials
1995 91 508

Table 1: Summary of approved submissions (for which field trials took place) and approved field trials that have been carried out in 1995. Please note that not all approved field trials take place once authorized

Crop Nfld PEI NS NB QC ON MB SK AB BC
Alfalfa

0

0

0

0

0

8

0

0

0

0

Broccoli

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

Brown Mustard

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

0

0

Canola/ napus

0

0

0

0

0

20

51

109

45

1

Canola/ rapa

0

0

0

0

0

1

6

41

11

0

Corn

0

0

0

0

0

67

0

0

0

0

Flax

0

0

0

0

0

0

9

15

3

0

Potato

0

14

0

38

4

5

9

1

8

2

Soybean

0

0

0

0

0

28

0

0

0

0

Strawberry

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

Tobacco

0

0

0

0

0

2

0

0

0

0

Wheat

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

5

0

0

Total

0

14

0

38

4

131

75

174

67

5

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
Alfalfa Medicago sativa 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0(0) 0
Broccoli Brassica oleracea 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0(0) 0
Brown Mustard Brassica juncea 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0(0) 0
Canola/ napus Brassica napus 226 178 8 2 2 29 35 0 4 0 3(0) 2
Canola/ rapa Brassica rapa 59 59 0 0 0 0 35 0 0 0 0(0) 0
Corn Zea Mays 67 63 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0(0) 0
Flax Linum usitatissimum 27 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0(0) 0
Potato Solanum tuberosum 81 0 0 0 1 0 0 29 1 24 0(0) 41
Soybean Glycine max 28 27 0 1 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 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0(0) 0
Wheat Triticum aestivum 5 3 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0(0) 0
Total   508 368 8 5 5 29 70 47 5 26 3(0) 43

*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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