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Confined Field Trials for 1996

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Summary of Submissions and Field Trials of Plants with Novel Traits (PNTs) Proceeding under the Seeds Act, 1996

Year	Number of Submissions	Number of Field Trials
1996	132	645

Table 1: Summary of approved submissions (for which field trials took place) and approved field trials that have been carried out in 1996. 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	10	11	0	0	0	0
Broccoli	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Canola/rapa	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	84	73	0
Canola/napus	0	0	0	0	0	7	81	125	82	12
Cherry	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Corn	0	0	0	0	4	32	0	0	0	0
Ethiopian Mustard	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Potato	0	14	0	25	4	7	3	1	30	5
Soybeans	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	0	0
Tobacco	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
Tomato	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Wheat	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Total	0	14	0	25	18	71	99	213	185	20

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
Crop	Latin Name	Field Trials	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	21	6	11	0	3	0	0	0	4	1	0 (0)	16
Broccoli	Brassica oleracea	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	1
Canola/rapa	Brassica rapa	172	206	0	0	0	0	13	0	0	0	0 (0)	12
Canola/napus	Brassica napus	307	251	4	1	3	32	72	0	5	0	11 (5)	60
Cherry	Prunus x yedoensis	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	1
Corn	Zea Mays	36	46	0	0	0	0	1	31	2	0	0 (0)	0
Ethiopian Mustard	Brassica carinata	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2 (0)	2
Potato	Solanum tuberosum	89	13	0	2	13	0	0	68	1	55	0 (0)	76
Soybean	Glycine max	10	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	10
Tobacco	Nicotiana tabacum	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0 (0)	3
Tomato	Lycopersicon esculentum	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0 (0)	1
Wheat	Triticum aestivum	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	2
Total		645	533	16	4	19	32	86	100	13	57	13 (5)	184

*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, generation of mutants, expression of selectable markers marker and yield enhancement.

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