Timac Agro Canada, Napierville, Quebec, on Feb. 2 announced a multi-year scientific collaboration with the University of Calgary aiming at contributing to the advancement of national research related to drought tolerance on canola, as well as nitrous oxide emissions reductions in Canadian agriculture.
“Through our previous collaboration, we demonstrated the efficiency of Timac Agro Extracts in conferring improved biomass, stand establishment, and drought tolerance on canola,” said Dr. Marcus Samuel, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. “We are happy to continue our collaboration with Timac Agro Canada and look forward to expanding our research to other potential areas of interest such as pod-shattering.”
Timac worked with the school on a two-year project (2020-2022) that used Timac’s biostimulants in promoting drought tolerance on canola.
Another segment of the new research project will involve Timac’s Top Phos, a superphosphate fertilizer introduced in 2019 in Canada. This technology is used maximize phosphorus use efficiency by avoiding phosphate tie-up and blockage occurrences in soil.
“Recent scientific publications established a potential correlation between phosphorus use efficiency and the reduction of nitrous oxide emissions,” added Dr. Samuel. “In the context of the federal government’s emission reduction targets, we believe that this could be an interesting angle of research to explore further through the Top Phos technology.”