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Summary Tables of
Confined Field Trials for Spring 2009


Summary of Submissions and Field Trials of Plants with Novel Traits (PNTs) Proceeding under the Seeds Act, 2009.

Table 1: Summary of approved submissions and number of approved field trials that have been planted in 2009. Please note that not all approved submissions have trials planted after authorization.

Year Number of Submissions Number of Field Trials
2009 157 818

Table 2: Number of field trials per province categorized by crop species. Only trials that have been both authorized and planted are shown (including those terminated early) and do not include those that were authorized and terminated before planting.

Crop Nfld PEI NS NB QC ON MB SK AB BC
Alfalfa

0

0

0

0

0

2 0 1 0 0
Camelina

0

0

0

0

0

0 10 10 0 0
Canola

0

0

0

0

0

9 150 320 170 12
Corn

0

0

0

0

4

10 1 0 0 0
Cuphea hybrid

0

1

0

0

0

0 0 0 0 0
Ethiopian Mustard

0

0

0

0

0

0 0 1 0 0
Poplar

0

0

0

0

1

1 0 0 0 0
Soybean

0

0

0

0

17

97 0 0 0 0
Tobacco

0

0

0

0

0

1 0 0 0 0
Total

0

1

0

0

22

120 161 332 170 12

Table 3: Summary of 2009 field trials' breeding objectives. Data includes only trials that were both authorized and planted (trials terminated early are also included).

Crop Latin Name Total Trials Breeding Objectives
Genetic Research
Breeding Objectives
Selectable Marker
Breeding Objectives
Fertility Restoration
Breeding Objectives
Male Sterility
Breeding Objectives
Herbicide Tolerance
Breeding Objectives
Insect Resistance
Breeding Objectives
Yield Increase
Breeding Objectives
Modified Oil Composition
Breeding Objectives Nutritional Change Breeding Objectives
Stress Tolerance
Breeding Objectives
New Species To Canada
Breeding Objectives
Commercial Enzyme
Alfalfa Medicago sativa 3 1 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Camelina Camelina sativa 20 0 0 0 0 4 0 20 0 0 0 0 0
Canola Brassica napus 661 0 99 6 8 558 0 214 7 1 385 0 0
Corn Zea Mays 15 0 0 0 0 25 4 0 0 0 1 0 0
Cuphea hybrid Cuphea viscosissima x C. lanceolata f. silenoides 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Ethiopian Mustard Brassica carinata 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Poplar Populus spp 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Soybean Glycine max 114 1 0 0 0 86 0 74 31 0 0 0 0
Tobacco Nicotiana tabacum 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1