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Confined Field Trials for 2000

Summary of Submissions and Field Trials of Plants with Novel Traits (PNTs) Proceeding under the Seeds Act, 2000

Year	Number of Submissions	Number of Field Trials
2000	180	437

Table 1: Summary of approved submissions (for which field trials took place) and approved field trials that have been carried out in 2000. 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	58	0	0	0	0
Barley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Black Spruce	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Brown Mustard	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	26	4	0
Canary Seed	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Canola/napus	0	0	0	0	0	6	43	48	13	0
Canola/rapa	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	21	18	0
Corn	0	0	0	0	5	35	0	0	0	0
Ethiopian Mustard	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
flax	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	0
Grape vine	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0
Lentil	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Monococcum	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Poplar	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Potato	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	3	2	0
Safflower	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Soybean	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	0	0	0
Sugar Beet	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	4	0
Tobacco	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	0	0
Wheat	0	0	0	0	0	0	27	33	25	0
White Spruce	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
White Clover	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	0	0	0
Total	0	6	0	2	10	134	75	143	67	0

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	58	2	56	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8
Barley	Hordeum vulgare	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Black Spruce	Picea mariana	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brown Mustard	Brassica juncea	30	21	0	0	3	3	9	0	0	0	0	6
Canary Seed	Phalaris canariensis	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Canola/napus	Brassica napus	110	44	2	0	7	44	15	3	20	0	0	15
Canola/rapa	Brassica rapa	40	40	0	0	0	0	40	0	0	0	0	0
Corn	Zea mays	40	20	1	0	0	1	1	25	4	0	0	0
Ethiopian Mustard	Brassica carinata	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Flax	Linum usitatissimum	6	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0
Grape vine	Vitis vinifera	6	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lentil	Lens culinaris	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Monococcum	Triticum monococcum	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poplar	Populus alba x grandidentata	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Safflower	Carthamus tinctorius	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Potato	Solanum tuberosum	9	0	1	0	0	2	6	2	0	0	0	0
Soybean	Glycine max	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0
Sugar Beet	Beta vulgaris	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tobacco	Nicotiana tabacum	10	1	1	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
White Spruce	Picea	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Wheat	Triticum aestivum	91	86	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	5
White Clover	Trifolium repens	8	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total		437	234	75	10	11	51	65	30	42	2	6	34

*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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