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| − | <h1><span class="emphasis">CANOLA:</span> one of Canada's largest agricultural industries</h1> | + | <h1> |
| − | <p>First bred in 1974, canola has gone on to become one of Canada’s leading crops. The industry contributes <span class="emphasis">19.3 billion dollars</span> to the Canadian economy every year while providing <span class="emphasis">12.5 billion dollars</span> in wages to <span class="emphasis">249,000 workers</span>. Canada is also the number one exporter of canola in the world and annually exports <span class="emphsasis">9 billion dollars</span> worth of seed, oil, and meal to countries like the USA, China, Japan, and Mexico.</p> | + | <span class="emphasis">CANOLA:</span> |
| | + | one of Canada's largest agricultural industries</h1> |
| | + | <p>First bred in 1974, canola has gone on to become one of Canada’s |
| | + | leading crops. The industry contributes |
| | + | <span class="emphasis">19.3 billion dollars</span> |
| | + | to the Canadian economy every year while providing |
| | + | <span class="emphasis">12.5 billion dollars</span> in wages to |
| | + | <span class="emphasis">249,000 workers</span>. |
| | + | Canada is also the number one exporter of canola |
| | + | in the world and annually exports |
| | + | <span class="emphsasis">9 billion dollars</span> |
| | + | worth of seed, oil, and meal to countries like the USA, |
| | + | China, Japan, and Mexico.</p> |
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| | <h1>The Current Canola Pipeline</h1> | | <h1>The Current Canola Pipeline</h1> |
| | <h2>And Its Losses</h2> | | <h2>And Its Losses</h2> |
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| − | <h3>The Farmer</h3>
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| − | <p>Canada is home to roughly 43,000 canola farmers. In 2018, over 21% of the canola samples received by the Canadian Grain Commission were downgraded due to high green seed content with many samples containing over 20% green seeds. This means that their selling price was halved.</p>
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| − | <h3>The Elevator</h3>
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| − | <p>Grain elevators currently rely on human labour to grade all of the seed batches they receive. This process requires lots of time and money to do.</p>
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| − | <h3>The Processor</h3>
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| − | <p>The process of converting canola seeds into canola is a complex process that involves several steps. These are traditionally carried out by oil processing plants throughout Canada. Companies like Viterra, Richardson, and Cargill produce 18.4 metric tonnes of canola oil each year. Canola seeds with high chlorophyll content introduce significant costs to the refining process and processing plants must refuse certain batches that contain too many green seeds. Furthermore, the small amount of chlorophyll that’s extracted is essentially a waste product with no further use.</p>
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| − | <h3>The Market</h3>
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| − | <p>Canola oil is used in a variety of end products like salad dressings, biofuels, printer inks, and even cosmetics. Canada’s canola market is hotbed for innovation.</p>
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| | <h1>Green seed causes millions of dollars of losses in the canola industry. <span class="emphasis">We're here to change that.</span></h1> | | <h1>Green seed causes millions of dollars of losses in the canola industry. <span class="emphasis">We're here to change that.</span></h1> |
| | <p>Engineering a process to de-green canola seeds and establishing a market for chlorophyll derivatives.</p> | | <p>Engineering a process to de-green canola seeds and establishing a market for chlorophyll derivatives.</p> |
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| − | <p>By empowering farmers with tools to better manage fungal pathogens, seeding practices, and standardizing the grading of seeds, canola producers will be better equipped to deal with these issues. Pheophorbide A, a new method for preventing Sclerotinia sclerotium could result in a significant decrease in cases of fungal infection. Sunny days, a novel long-term weather prediction model, gives farmers the ability to better determine when to plant their crops. Lastly, a standardized seed grading system ensures that farmers get a fair evaluation of their crops.</p>
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| − | <p>Through our standardized grading system, elevators will be able to grade their seeds fast and effectively without the need for human labour. Our system will also limit the number of disputes that happen between farmers and elevators as seeds will be graded in an objective and thorough manner.</p>
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| − | <p>The extraction of chlorophyll from canola oil and its later conversion to pheophorbide opens up a totally new avenue for oil processing. By implementing our process into their workflows, oil processing plants will be able to gain a new revenue stream and integrate themselves into a new market segment.</p>
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| − | <p>Consumers will be happy to know that the canola oil in their kitchens can now be produced in an environmentally friendly way. In addition, a new market segment is introduced with the creation of pheophorbide. Both researchers and fungicide manufacturers can purchase this compound from oil producers.</p>
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| − | <h3><span class="ast">** </span>A Fungicide for Canola Plants<span class="ast"> **</span></h3>
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| − | <p>Fungal infection of canola crops results in substantially lower grade seeds. Particularly, the infection of crops by Sclerotinia sclerotium is the most prevalent among canola and modern crops are not effectively protected against using farmers’ usual prevention methods; ie. crop rotation and resistant strains of canola. In order to fight these infections, we propose to use pheophorbide a’s photosensitizing capabilities as a new antifungal agent. S. sclerotium infects crops by first landing on the petals of the plant and then making its way into the shoot. By spraying crops with pheophorbide a there will be inhibition of the invading fungus before it infects the plant by finding its way inside the plant, thus stopping the spread of infection. We have shown that pheophorbide a acts to inhibit mycelial growth of S. sclerotium and may have some inhibition specificity as per our comparison with its effect on Pestalotiopsis microspora. </p>
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| − | <h3><span class="ast">** </span>Pheophorbide<span class="ast"> **</span></h3>
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| − | <p>Pheophorbide a is our way to repurpose extracted chlorophyll from green oil and make a new market stream for green seed. As both a catabolite of the chlorophyll degradation pathway and a photosensitizer, pheophorbide a creates new value in a place unexplored in the current industry. Using a chlorophyll binding protein (6GIX) we are able to extract chlorophyll from green oil and repurpose it using four enzymes involved in chlorophyll degradation (CBR, HCAR, SGR, PPH), which turns chlorophyll a and b into pheophorbide a. This compound has recently gained interest in the research community as an anti-cancer and anti-fungal treatment through photodynamic therapy - by which light is shone on the compound, releasing radical oxygen species, which can damage the cell structure of cancerous and fungal cells. </p>
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