Profiles

Title: Research Scientist
Role: Lead scientist for spring wheat breeding program for Eastern Canada. Focussed on variety development and improving agronomic traits, disease resistance, and end use quality.
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Location: Ottawa ON
Title: Biologist
Role: Evaluation of apple and sweet cherry genotypes
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Location: Summerland, B.C.
Title: Research Scientist
Role: Curator, Canadian Potato Gene Resources genetic variation in vitro culture cultivar development selection breeding systems plant breeding / reproduction potato selection assisted by DNA markers
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Scientist
Role: Develop and execute innovative projects in forage seed crops and cropping systems management Analyze and publish research results, and disseminate adaptive information Network and collaborate with researchers across various organizations, industry groups...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Scientist, Perennial Forage Biomass Crops
Role: My research program focuses on the development of cultivars and genetic material of perennial species for forage and bioenergy purposes.
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Scientist Physiology and Biochemistry of perennial crops
Role: Abiotic stress resistance of perennial forage crops (temperature stress, salinity, climate change, ice, drought): Development of new selection approaches for winter survival; Identification of metabolites and cold-regulated genes associated with higher...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Scientist
Role: Potato Breeder and Geneticist. Leader of AAFC's National Potato Breeding Program with research activities at Fredericton and Lethbridge Research and Development Centres. 
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Scientist, Small Fruit Germplasm Development
Role: Beatrice Amyotte is the small fruit germplasm development scientist at the AAFC Kentville Research and Development Centre. Her program focuses on breeding strawberries, raspberries and other small fruits for production in Canada. Amyotte co-leads the...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Title: Research Scientist (Dry Bean Breeding)
Role: Develop dry bean cultivars that combine high yield with early maturity, lodging resistance, enhanced disease resistance (white mould and bacterial diseases) and seed quality (size, shape, colour and colour retention) traits for commercial production...
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Location: Lethbridge, AB
Title: Research Scientist
Role: Sustainable Oat Breeding and Genomics
Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada