Title:
Core microbes for field pea farming
Agreement Value:
$25,000.00
Agreement Date:
Mar 23, 2020 - Mar 31, 2021
Description:
Field pea seeds are routinely inoculated with commercially manufactured microorganism (Rhizobium leguminosarum) inoculants prior to sowing; but the treatment often fails to produce the desired increases of nodule activity. This situation seems to be largely explained by the inoculated microbes’ low fitness in the rhizosphere/rhizoplane of young pea plants. The team aims to identify and culture naturally occurring soil microbes that promote the latter parameter. A student or post-doctoral fellow the Laboratory at McGill University to perform some of the project activities (soil and seed inoculations, plant growth assessment, soil sampling and processing for DNA sequencing, production of cell extracts, qPCR analyses, microbial culturing, data analysis). This work aims to: 1-grow inoculated pea with different ‘receiving’ soil microbial communities, 2-determine if differences in nodulation efficiency are observed, 3-identify and culture microbes that may have caused observed differences. If successfully cultured, the latter microbes could be used to enhance the efficiency of currently commercialized field pea microbial inoculants.
Organization:
National Research Council Canada
Expected Results:
In the short term, anticipated outcomes will be strengthened collaborations across industry, academia, and government to support research excellence. In the medium term, anticipated outcomes will be the development of new and potentially disruptive technologies with collaborators.
Location:
Montreal, Quebec, CA H2X 0A8
Reference Number:
172-2019-2020-Q4-944736
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Business Number:
119128981
Additional Information:
This agreement has been amended 1 time(s). The end date of this agreements has been modified by 141 days. Windsor--Tecumseh 35116
Recipient's Operating Name:
The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University
Recipient's Legal Name:
The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning/McGill University
Federal Riding Name:
Ville-Marie–Le Sud-Ouest–Île-des-Sœurs
Federal Riding Number:
24077
Program:
Collaborative Science, Technology and Innovation Program – Ideation Fund
Program Purpose:
The Ideation Fund is intended to encourage, test and validate transformative research ideas generated by teams of NRC scientific personnel and external collaborators with complementary capabilities, acting as a demonstration phase for a continually-evolving suite of research and development (R&D) deliverables at the NRC. The fund supports exploratory research through two mechanisms: the New Beginnings Initiative and the Small Teams Initiative.