Agriculture & Agri-food

The business of Genesus Inc. (User and genetic supplier) is to improve commercial pork producer (customers) profitability through creation and transfer of genetic improvement. Thus, profitability of Genesus and its customers depends directly on its ability to create and transfer genetic improvement to those customers. The objective of this project is to develop and validate […]

Genomes represent the ‘recipe’ of life for all living organisms, providing instructions for how they are built, the environments in which they are designed to live, and the things that they can do in those environments. Genome sequencing instruments can now sequence an organism’s genome; however, the results do not come out in one piece,

The Canadian industry stands to gain $100M annually by improving two key traits in cattle: 1) feed conversion (feed efficiency) toward increased milk production, and 2) reduced methane emission. This project offers the means for effective selection of advantageous feed efficiency and reduced methane emission traits for a more secure and sustainable supply of competitive

In pork production, disease presents one of the largest costs and most difficult challenges to manage. It has a negative impact on animal welfare and likely contributes to poor public perception of animal production in terms of food safety and antimicrobial resistance. Genomics offers new opportunities to reduce these costs and improve the image of