Kirby T Nilsen

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Research Scientist

Sustainable Oat Breeding and Genomics

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
2701 Grand Valley Road, Brandon, MB

Current research and/or projects

  • Discovery, development and release of milling, feed and forage quality oats with improved nutritional quality and reduced business risk for production in a sustainable cropping system in western Canada.
  • Breeding oat cultivars for the rust-prone areas of the Canadian prairies
  • Breeding organic oat cultivars for western Canada

Professional activities / interests

  • Member of the Prairie Recommending Committee for Oat and Barley 
  • Coordinator of the Western Cooperative Oat Registration Trial

Key publications

  1. NA

    2022 - View publication details

Contact

Research facility

Brandon Research and Development Centre
2701 Grand Valley Road, P.O. Box 1000A
Brandon, MB R7A 5Y3
Canada

Expertise

Agriculture›Agri-Food
Agriculture›Biology›Cereal molecular
Agriculture›Biology›Plants
Agriculture›Breeding›Oat
Agriculture›Breeding›Wheat
Agriculture›Molecular genetics›Abiotic Stresses in Crop Plants
Agriculture›Molecular genetics›Biotic Stresses in Crop Plants
Technology›Bioinformatics
Technology›Genomics

Language

English
French