2023-08-08
Wheat rust is heading north, threatening a $7 billion industry. Precision Agriculture to Improve Crop Health pairs the disciplines of computational biochemistry and genomic mapping with the digital technologies of machine learning and robotics. The project is formulating a precision fungicide that kills wheat rust and does not harm human and environmental heath. The fungicide is going through a third generation of iteration to hone its formulation to a knife’s edge. Better yet, the project promises to lead to further responses to specific diseases that afflict precise crops. Best of all, Precision Agriculture to Improve Crop Health could produce remedies for ailments beyond agriculture, including pre-designing medicines to fight COVID-19 variants and prevent future pandemics.
Digital Technology Cluster
- Partners:
- Terramera, Sightline, Compression.ai, BC Cancer Research, Trent University, Simon Fraser University, University of Saskatchewan, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Genome BC, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
- Impact:
- Innovative product success
- Location:
- Vancouver, British Columbia