Dr. Jason L. McCallum

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/02/23/research-seeks-to-tap-into-craft-brewing-potential-of-maritime-wild-hops.html

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-research-seeks-to-tap-into-craft-brewing-potential-of-maritime-wild-2/

Cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the third most consumed food crop after rice and wheat. Potato is an auto tetraploid crop species having a highly heterozygous genetic base and a complex genome making its genetic studies tedious. Recently, diploid potato breeding has regained interest in the potato genetics community. Genetically, diploid potatoes are easy to work with and can be used in the cultivated potato breeding process as genetic resources and also they can be grown on their own as varieties. However, diploid breeding continuum faces many challenges including anti-nutritional factors and self-incompatibilities. Whereas conventional breeding strategies contributed to the releasing of varieties with low SGA, substantial resources are still required to minimizing these anti-nutritional factors. Recently, we developed and characterized an ethyl methane sulfonate mutagenized pre-breeding diploid potato population for identifying lines with low anti-nutritional factors. The data will be presented and discussed in relation to the high potential for diploid potatoes as a complement to tetraploid potatoes and in pre-and post-harvest management contexts.

https://pag.confex.com/pag/xxvii/meetingapp.cgi/Session/5691

Pommes de terre : de semence à semence – pouvons-nous changer l’approche?

2018 - Consulter les détails de la publication

Fofana, B., Ghose, K., Somalraju, A., McCallum, J., Main, D., Deyholos, M.K., Rowland, G.G., Cloutier, S. (2017). Induced mutagenesis in UGT74S1 gene leads to stable new flax lines with altered secoisolariciresinol diglucoside (SDG) profiles. Frontiers in Plant Science, [online] 8 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.01638

Fofana, B., Ghose, K., McCallum, J., You, F.M., Cloutier, S. (2017). UGT74S1 is the key player in controlling secoisolariciresinol diglucoside (SDG) formation in flax. BMC Plant Biology, [online] 17(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12870-017-0982-x

McCallum, J.L. et Mills, A.A.S. (2016). « Eastern hops germplasm development for the Maritimes. », 7th Annual Hop Conference, Colchester, VT, February 19, 2016.

Fofana, B., Ghose, K., McCallum, J.L., Somalraju, A., Cloutier, S., Deyholos, M.K., et Rowland, G.G. (2016). « Developing EMS flax mutant lines with altered SDG lignan glucosides. », PAGXXIV, San Diego, USA, January 9-13, 2015. (Affiche)