Crop Diversification Centre North Development Plan

Crop Diversification Centre North Development Plan
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Total Pages: 21
Release: 1998
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Provides an overview of the Crop Diversification Centre North, its history, programs, capabilities, and resources. Details are provided to allow potential partners or clients to assess the ability of the Centre to become an active partner in future joint ventures. Information is included on the Centre's mission and goals, operation, funding and resources, commodity-based and industry support programs, potential opportunities for additional programs in such fields as aquaculture and fibre crops, personnel, and available land and facilities.

Alberta. Crop Diversification Centres (North & South)

Alberta. Crop Diversification Centres (North & South)
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Total Pages: 89
Release: 1996
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Staff of Alberta's Crop Diversification Centres conduct applied research, extension & development programs working co-operatively with other research organizations. Their mandate is crop diversification & industry development. The Centres include the Horticulture/Apiculture Unit, the New Crop Development Unit, the shelterbelt program under the Agro-forestry Unit, and the Forage Unit. This report describes activities & research projects for each of these units & programs such as these: potato program, seed potato program, vegetable, fruit crops, nursery crops, woody plant, DED prevention, micropropagation, greenhouse crop, plant pathology, food science & technology, soil & water, weed science, and post harvest.

Annual Report 2000

Annual Report 2000
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Total Pages: 89
Release: 2001
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Staff of Alberta's Crop Diversification Centres conduct applied research, extension & development programs working co-operatively with other research organizations. Their mandate is crop diversification & industry development. The Centres include the Food Processing Development Centre, the Forage Unit, the Horticulture Unit, the New Crop Development Unit, and the Pest Prevention & Management Unit. This report describes activities & research projects for each of these units & programs such as these: potato agronomy & varietal development program, seed potato program, vegetable, fruit crops, nursery crops, greenhouse crops, plant pathology, food science & technology, soil & water agronomy, weed science, apiculture, special crops, and post-harvest technology. Also includes a meteorological report and a list of publications & conference presentations.

Rhodiola rosea

Rhodiola rosea
Author: Alain Cuerrier
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2014-12-02
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1439888418

The genus Rhodiola (Family Crassulaceae) is indigenous to Northern Canada, Europe and Asia where its rhizomes and roots have been used for centuries for medicinal purposes. Recent interest in the species Rhodiola rosea (roseroot) in the West arose from the use of the rhizome as an adaptogen for the treatment of stress, but in the last few years, ch