New Funding for Bean Breeding
NSERC recently approved Dr. Mohsen Yoosefzadeh Najafabadi as a co-applicant on the Alliance grant 590248-2023-ALLRP entitled " Bean Breeding for Environmental Sustainability and Increased Profitability". The grant, originally awarded to Dr. K. Peter Pauls, provides $1.1 M of funding for the Bean Breeding and Genetics program in the Department of Plant Agriculture at the University of Guelph. The grant matches $550,000 over five years provided by the Ontario Bean Growers to support the development of new dry bean varieties for production in Ontario.