World-wide Institute for Foods Protection launches Canada’s first built-in Omics and Precision Agriculture Laboratory

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“Thanks to the invaluable aid of our associates, we have been ready to set up a hugely outfitted facility that is a 1-halt store for the thorough analyses of microbe, plant and animal samples, and we are very pleased to have these advanced services available here to complement Saskatchewan’s thriving biotechnology ecosystem,” GIFS Main Government Officer Steven Webb reported.

“As a technologies platform, OPAL will use advanced applications and digital agtech to address big challenge troubles struggling with the agriculture and meals sectors, aligning with GIFS’ mission to work with companions to discover, develop and supply progressive remedies for the output of globally sustainable food items.”

Examples of people challenges OPAL was created to help resolve are local weather alter and limited water and nutrient resources. Using OPAL’s precision agtech, farmers will be equipped to goal crops with the precise amount of money of inputs – water, fertilizers and crop security products – needed in their fields. This precision in agriculture signifies a additional economical use of assets, top to accelerated breeding (crops, animals), reduced impact on the ecosystem, increased quality crop yield, considerably less waste and enhanced efficiency for breeders, agronomists, producers and other clients.

The facility will also serve as a vehicle to deploy chopping-edge technological know-how created by way of the Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Investigation Centre, a electronic agricultural research centre funded by the Canada To start with Study Excellence Fund and managed by GIFS on behalf of the university.