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Confined Field Trials 2003


Summary of Submissions and Field Trials of Plants with Novel
Traits (PNTs) Proceeding under the Seeds Act, 2003.

Year Number of Submissions Number of Field Trials
2003 100 205

Table 1: Summary of approved submissions (for which field trials took place) and approved field trials that have been carried out in 2003. 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

12

0

10

0

0

Black Spruce

0

0

0

0

2

0

0

0

0

0

Brown Mustard

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

5

0

0

Canola/ napus

0

0

0

0

0

0

17

43

18

0

Corn

0

0

0

0

1

15

0

0

0

0

Creeping Bentgrass

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

Lentils

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

Poplar

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

Potato

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

6

0

0

Safflower

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

7

0

Sugar Beet

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

4

0

Tobacco

0

0

0

0

0

5

0

0

3

0

Wheat

0

0

0

0

0

0

23

13

15

0

White Spruce

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

Total

0

0

0

0

5

33

40

80

47

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
Herbicide Tolerance Stress Tolerance Genetic Research Nutritional Change Modified Oil Composition Male Sterility/ Restoration Insect Resistance Fungal Resistance Pharmaceutical Other
Alfalfa

Medicago sativa

22 1 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Black Spruce

Picea mariana

2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brown Mustard

Brassica juncea

5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Canola/

napus

Brassica napus

78 26 22 0 3 12 15 0 0 0 0
Corn

Zea Mays

16 16 3 0 0 0 0 11 2 0 0
Creeping Bentgrass

Agrostis palustris

1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lentils

Lens culinaris

1 1 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
Potato

Solanum tuberosum

6 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Safflower

Carthamus tinctorius

9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 4
Sugar Beet

Beta vulgaris

4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tobacco

Nicotiana tabacum

8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5
Wheat

Triticum aestivum

51 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 2
White Spruce

Picea glauca

1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Total   201 105 41 13 3 12 15 12 9 8 12

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, yield enhancement and industrial protein production (plant molecular farming).

Last Updated: July 18, 2003



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