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Confined Field Trials for 1998

Summary of Submissions and Field Trials of Plants with Novel Traits (PNTs)
Proceeding under the Seeds Act, 1998

Year	Number of Submissions	Number of Field Trials
1998	185	515

Table 1: Summary of approved submissions (for which field trials took place) and approved field trials that have been carried out in 1998. 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	1	60	0	0	0	0
Barley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0
Brown mustard	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0
Canary Seed	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Canola/napus	0	0	0	0	0	6	51	29	43	10
Canola/rapa	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	36	40	0
Cherry	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Corn	0	0	0	0	2	16	0	0	0	0
Ethiopian mustard	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Flax	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Grapevine	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0
Monococcum	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Pea	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
Poplar	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Potato	0	40	0	31	10	8	11	1	19	5
Soybean	0	0	0	0	1	29	0	0	0	0
Squash	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
Sugarbeet	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	7	0
Wheat	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	5	0	0
White mustard	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Total	0	40	0	31	14	136	75	90	110	19

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	61	3	40	14	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	4
Barley	Hordeum vulgare	4	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Brown Mustard	Brassica juncea	9	7	1	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	0	1
Canary Seed	Phalaris canariensis	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Canola/napus	Brassica napus	84	42	4	0	7	62	0	3	26	0	6 (4)	10
Canola/rapa	Brassica rapa	139	85	0	0	0	2	43	0	0	0	0	0
Cherry	Prunus x yedoensis	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Corn	Zea mays	18	12	0	0	0	0	1	11	3	0	0	0
Ethiopian Mustard	Brassica carinata	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
Flax	Linum usitatissimum	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Grape vine	Vitis vinifera	6	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mocococum	Triticum monococcum	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pea	Pisum sativum	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Poplar	Populus alba x grandidentata	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Potato	Solanum tuberosum	125	5	0	5	10	0	0	116	1	114	0	0
Soybean	Glycine max	30	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0
Squash	Cucurbita	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Sugar Beet	Beta vulgaris	13	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wheat	Triticum aestivum	13	9	0	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
White Mustard	Sinapus alba	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1
Total		515	210	50	22	30	66	48	130	36	117	9 (4)	17

*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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