Thursday, October 13, 2016

Feds invest $6 million in genome projects



The federal government has announced $6 million to fund six genome research projects for agriculture.

One is research by Dr. Claude Robert of Universite Laval to improve pork quality and production efficiency.

He is working with Olymel and Hylife in conjunction with the Canadian Centre for Swine Improvement.


Another $13 million is on the table for other genome projects for agriculture.