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Fall 2019
Methanotrophic bacteria are capable of converting single carbon sources such as methane or methanol, two common industrial waste products, into value-added compounds like bioplastics or biofuels. These microorganisms have significant potential for the mitigation of these low-value industrial...
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Best Management Practices for Implementing Ultra-Early Spring Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Growing Systems on the Northern Great Plains
DownloadSpring 2023
Ultra-early planting of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) between soil temperatures of 0°C and 7.5°C on the northern Great Plains allows the exploitation of longer growing seasons and the avoidance of the onset of extreme heat later in the season during sensitive physiological growth stages,...
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Climate Change Adaptation Planning at the Regional District Scale on Vancouver Island, British Columbia
DownloadSpring 2020
Society is currently faced with the complex and challenging task of responding to global climate change. Contemporary climate impacts include increasing temperatures, melting snow and ice, rising sea levels, and more extreme and variable weather events (IPCC, 2014). Vancouver Island has been...
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Climate Resilience Planning with Vulnerable Communities: A Case Study of Engagement and Citizenship in Edmonton, Alberta
DownloadSpring 2020
Municipal governments are playing key roles in the development of climate adaptation and resilience policies and are increasingly incorporating participatory approaches into policy development processes. However, confusion and assumptions about the definition of resilience, as well as related...
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Co-Fermentation of Wheat and Whey Permeate for Ethanol Production and Chemical Characteristics of the Resulting Dried Distillers' Grains with Solubles
DownloadFall 2014
The vast majority of global bio-ethanol production uses food crops as the primary feedstocks, which leads to the high dependence of ethanol production cost on the price of the crop-based carbon resources. The demand, and interests, to use cheaper non-crop-based carbon sources for the ethanol...
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Design and analysis of population demographic experiments for use in environmental risk assessments for genetically modified crops
DownloadFall 2016
Genetically modified crops with putative fitness-enhancing traits are being field-tested throughout Canada and the world, but robust methods with which to compare their fitness with conventional cultivars are lacking. Additionally, field analyses of GM crops in non-agricultural areas are...
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Spring 2014
This thesis evaluates economic impact of adoption of crops developed by means of modern genomic tools. The economic impact of these improved crops is looked at from two different angles: the welfare implications from trading improved crops on the world market, and the benefits of adopting...
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Spring 2018
The effect of plant proteins, specifically those from yellow field pea seeds on the in vitro digestibility of wheat starch was studied. Initially, the starch digestibility profile of pressure cooked pea seeds (dehulled and split), pea flour and isolated starches from pea and wheat was evaluated...