The Rural Voice, 1998-03, Page 11Scrap Book
Can I borrow
your genes?
A ground -breaking agreement
will allow Canadian researchers
to borrow from the world's
largest bank of potato
germplasm in South America.
Agriculture and Agri -Food
Canada (AAFC) signed a three-
year co-operation agreement
with the International Potato
Centre in Peru. Many of the
world's leading potato
researchers ply their trade at the
Centre and this agreement will
allow AAFC to benefit from
their expertise through joint
research and the exchange of
genetic material like germ-
plasm, which is used in breed-
ing. New research efforts will
be focussed on developing hard-
ier, more disease -resistant spuds.0
—Source: Agriculture and Agri -
Food Canada
Necessity fuels
invention
Call it making the best of a
bad situation. A community
consortium in Foam Lake,
Saskatchewan, is flesh and
blood proof that necessity is the
mother of invention in its
building of a biodiesel plant.
The necessity: a market for
the eight per cent of canola
crops considered off -grade and
not suitable for edible products.
The invention: a fuel additive
developed by Agriculture and
Agri -Food Canada's Saskatoon
Research Centre. Known as
biodicsel, the additive, made
from low-grade canola, cuts
engine smoke emissions by as
much as 70 per cent.
Volkswagen and John Deere
have approved the product for
their vehicles and mining com-
panies are interested in using it
for underground operations.0
—Source: Agriculture and
Agrifood Canada
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