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The Cereal Research Centre was a research institute established in 1925 based at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. It became part of a national network of research centres operated by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Its research led to the development of over two hundred varieties of plant species resistant to pests and blights and producing high yields suitable for cultivation in the Canadian Prairies. Its closure was announced in the 2012 federal budget, and ultimately executed in April 2014. ==Background== In the late 1910s and early 1920s, Canada experienced several outbreaks of stem rust ''Puccinia graminis'', particularly on the nation's staple agricultural product wheat. In response to these outbreaks, in 1925 the Government of Canada established the Dominion Rust Research Laboratory at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. William Richard Motherwell, the Minister of Agriculture, invited Margaret Newton to help manage the newly opened laboratory. She accepted and was appointed the laboratory's senior plant pathologist, a position she maintained until retirement. Newton established an annual stem rust survey for Western Canada, discovering a diversity of races in rust populations, which eventually enabled her to discover and catalogue the wheat species and cross-species resistant to stem rust. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cereal Research Centre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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