Prairie Regional Laboratory

Prairie Regional Laboratory, National Research Council of Canada, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N OW9, Canada... 

Child, J. J. LaRue, T. A. "Plant Tissue Culture Methods" (0. L. Gamborg and L. R. Wetter) p. 90, National Research Council of Canada, Prairie Regional Laboratory, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7N 0W9 NRCC 14383 (1975). 

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Simultaneously with the sowing of the first crop. Dr. W. j. White started a breeding program at the Federal Department of Agriculture Dominion Forage Crops Laboratory in Saskatoon, Dr. H. K. Sallans and Mr. G. D. Sinclair at the Prairie Regional Laboratory of the National Research Council at Saskatoon did the early work of quality evaluation on the oil in terms of iodine value, acid value, refractive index, and oil color. 

Another advocate of rapeseed and rapeseed oil was Dr. Sal Ians, who pointed out on many occasions that the crop was well adapted to the Prairies, had the potential of replacing much of our imported vegetable oils, and could be essential in the case of national emergency. Dr. Sal Ians and his colleagues at the Prairie Regional Laboratory, Dr. B. M. Craig, Dr. L. R. Wetter and Dr. C. G. Youngs, did much to maintain interest in the crop and provided basic information on both oil and meal. 

The use of rapeseed oil for edible purposes was also encouraged by two of the Associate Committees of the National Research Council. The Associate Committee on Grain Research recommended That in view of the productivity of rape as an oil crop in Western Canada, the Canada Committee on Fats and Oils be asked to foster and promote commercial tests by industrial producers of edible products." As a result of this recommendation, Canada Packers Limited intensified their research program with cooperation from the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool through Mr. J. R. Reynolds, their chief chemist, and Drs. Craig and Youngs of the Prairie Regional Laboratory of the... 

Dr. Sallans viewed this time as critical in the development of the industry. Arrangement was made for Dr. Craig and Dr. Wetter from the Prairie Regional Laboratory and Mr. Reynolds from the Wheat Pool to spend 6 weeks in Europe studying processing and utilization of rapeseed, its oil, and its meal. This was the beginning of many exchange missions between Canada and other countries on the subject of rapeseed. 

Reference has already been made to the first technical mission sent to Europe in May 1961. This group consisted of representatives of the Prairie Regional Laboratory and Industry. It went to Europe to look at the utilization of rapeseed. In September 1961, the first trade delegation concerned primarily with rapeseed was headed by J. Gordon Ross and traveled to Britain and Europe. It included representatives of grain handling companies, research scientists, and trade officials of the federal government. 

Besides erucic acid, Downey and Stefansson also turned their attention to glu-cosinolates in the meal. A rapid GLC developed by Young and Wetter in 1967 at Prairie Regional Laboratory (PRL) in Saskatoon allowed for the rapid and accurate measurement of glucosinolate levels in the meal. A line of low-glucosinolate summer B. napus detected by Dr. Jan Krzymanski and brought into Canada in... 

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