KERNZA® ANNUAL WHEAT Kernza ) breeding program for …
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MAKEmanitoba.ca RESEARCH LEAD: Doug Cattani, plant scientist, University of Manitoba DIG DEEPER! UM News “Innovative crop researcher captures sustainability award” MANITOBA Agriculture & Food K NOWLEDGE E XCHANGE 2025 MARKET Specialty grain with environmental attributes Kernza ® grain has been used to make flour, popped grain, cereal, crackers and even beer! IWG breeding program launched at UM selecting Prairie-hardy germplasm for consistent high yield, high quality grain protein 3 Manitoba producers seed small acreages of advanced IWG for grain, agronomics First breeder plots with most advanced line Anticipated release of first Canadian IWG commercial cultivar KERNZA ® FAST FACTS ~4m ROOT LENGTH ~1,000kg/ha SEED YIELD 5-6 YRS STAND DURATION 9-21% PROTEIN CONTENT UP TO… 2x OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS 10x FOLATE Compared with annual wheats PERENNIAL GRAINS Soon to be in our fields and on our plates - a first in Canada. TIMELINE TO COMMERCIAL CULTIVAR KERNZA® ANNUAL WHEAT GROUND LEVEL Icons: Flaticon.com. All Images are covered by a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-ND) and are © The Land Institute (landinstitute.org). Doug Cattani leads the ONLY IWG (Thinopyrum intermedium, Kernza ® ) breeding program for grain production in Canada Part of the global perennial grain initiative initiated by the Kansas-based The Land Institute Intermediate wheatgrass (IWG) provides the soil ecological benefits of a perennial while yielding grain for milling like an annual crop 2011 2019 2020 2025
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MAKEmanitoba.ca
RESEARCH LEAD: Doug Cattani, plant scientist, University of Manitoba
DIG DEEPER! UM News “Innovative crop researcher captures sustainability award” MANITOBAAgriculture & FoodK NOW LEDGEE XCHANGE
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October 2019
Horizontal faculty identifiers – Full wordmark version
The examples below illustrate additional iterations of the full wordmark version of the ‘horizontal faculty identifier right’ and the ‘horizontal faculty identifier left’ configurations. When the faculty name must go on two lines, the point size is adjusted accordingly. This ensures the same visual weight is applied to all faculty identifiers.
Full wordmark version – horizontal faculty identifier right Full wordmark version – horizontal faculty identifier left
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MARKETSpecialty grain with environmental attributes
Kernza® grain has been used to make flour, popped grain, cereal, crackers and even beer!
IWG breeding program launched at UM selecting Prairie-hardy germplasm for consistent high yield, high quality grain protein
3 Manitoba producers seed small acreages of advanced IWG for grain, agronomics
First breeder plots with most advanced line
Anticipated release of first Canadian IWG commercial cultivar
KERNZA® FAST FACTS~4mROOT LENGTH
~1,000kg/haSEED YIELD
5-6 yrs STAND DURATION
9-21% PROTEIN CONTENT
UP TO…
2x OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS
10x FOLATECompared with annual wheats
PERENNIAL GRAINSSoon to be in our fields and on our plates-a first in Canada.
TIMELINE TO COMMERCIAL CULTIVAR
KERNZA®
ANNUALWHEAT
GROUND LEVEL
Icons: Flaticon.com. All Images are covered by a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-ND) and are © The Land Institute (landinstitute.org).
Doug Cattani leads the ONLY IWG (Thinopyrum intermedium, Kernza®) breeding program for grain production in Canada
Part of the global perennial grain initiative initiated by the Kansas-based The Land Institute
Intermediate wheatgrass (IWG) provides the soil ecological benefits of a perennial while yielding grain for milling like an annual crop
2011 2019 2020 2025
