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Confined Field Trials for 2001

Summary of Submissions and Field Trials of Plants with Novel Traits (PNTs) Proceeding under the Seeds Act, 2001

Year	Number of Submissions	Number of Field Trials
2001	146	289

Table 1: Summary of approved submissions (for which field trials took place) and approved field trials that have been carried out in 2001. 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	52	1	10	0	0
Barley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Black Spruce	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
Brown Mustard	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	22	2	0
Canola/napus	0	0	0	0	0	8	9	16	11	0
Canola/rapa	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Corn	0	0	0	0	2	20	0	0	0	0
Creeping Bentgrass	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
flax	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	0	0
Grape vine	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0
Lentil	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	9	4	0
Monococcum	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Perennial Ryegrass	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Poplar	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Potato	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	2	0
Safflower	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Soybean	0	0	0	0	5	5	0	0	0	0
Sugar Beet	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Tobacco	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Wheat	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	20	19	0
White Spruce	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
White Clover	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0
Total	0	0	0	0	11	112	35	86	44	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	63	3	52	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	69
Barley	Hordeum vulgare	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	2
Black Spruce	Picea mariana	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	4
Brown Mustard	Brassica juncea	25	36	2	0	0	6	10	0	0	0	0 (0)	6
Canola/napus	Brassica napus	44	42	10	11	1	11	1	5	5	0	0 (0)	45
Canola/rapa	Brassica rapa	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0 (0)	2
Corn	Zea mays	22	6	0	0	0	1	0	15	6	0	0 (0)	22
Creeping Bentgrass	Agrostis stolonifera L. (syn A. palustris)	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0
Flax	Linum usitatissimum	10	0	5	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	9
Grape vine	Vitis vinifera	6	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	8
Lentil	Lens culinaris	16	16	0	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)	0
Perennial Ryegrass	Lolium perenne L.	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0
Poplar	Populus alba x grandidentata	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	0 (0)	11
Potato	Solanum tuberosum	10	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0
Safflower	Carthamus tinctorius	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0
Soybean	Glycine max	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0 (0)	0
Sugar Beet	Beta vulgaris	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0
Tobacco	Nicotiana tabacum	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	5
Wheat	Triticum aestivum	59	96	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0 (0)	1
White Clover	Trifolium repens	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1 (0)	5
White Spruce	Picea	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0 (0)	1
Total		289	207	84	29	1	22	11	22	26	0	1 (1)	190

*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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