date:Jul 27, 2015
Canadian minister of agriculture and agri-food Gerry Ritz, and the chairs of Genome Canada and the Western Grains Research Foundation, have granted $93m to 11 new genomics research projects that address challenges and opportunities for agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture in Canada.
Valued between $5-$10m, the projects have been sanctioned under Genome Canada's 2014 Large-Scale Applied Research Project Competition Genomics and Feeding the Future.
The research projects aim at utilising genomi