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Spring 2022

Prasad, Amritha Jaya

Low water activity (aw) foods have been associated with several foodborne outbreaks and recalls. Eradication of foodborne microorganisms like Salmonella and Escherichia coli from low aw foods is challenging, as they are resistant to conventional decontamination practices. High intensity light...

Spring 2022

Tso, Heather H

Clubroot, caused by the soilborne pathogen Plasmodiophora brassicae, is a threat to cruciferous crops worldwide and an important disease of canola (Brassica napus L.) in Canada. At present, pathotypes of P. brassicae are distinguished phenotypically based on their virulence patterns on host...

Spring 2022

Yadav, Barun Kumar

Meat products, including ready-to-eat (RTE) ham, fresh poultry meat, and dry pet foods have been associated with several foodborne outbreaks and recalls, due to the occurrence of microbial pathogens such as Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Elimination of these...

Spring 2022

Olson, Cameron A

Reproductive efficiency in the Western Canadian beef cow herd has not improved over the past 3 decades, despite consistent and measurable improvement in several related areas of production. The general objective of this thesis was to evaluate the relationships between early-observation traits...

Fall 2022

Vo, Hung Ha Phuoc

Bioactive oligosaccharides and peptides have drawn great attention due to reported health benefits such as antidiabetic, anti-obesity, anticancer, anti-hypertensive, and antioxidant. The most common methods to produce oligosaccharides and peptides are enzymatic and acid hydrolysis which have...

Fall 2022

Liu, Yingyi

Clubroot disease, caused by Plasmodiophora brassicae, is one of the most serious threats to spring Brassica napus canola production in Canada. Growing of clubroot-resistant cultivars is the key to control this disease. The genetic base of the Canadian spring B. napus canola for clubroot...

Fall 2022

Abdurrahim, Amna E.

Anthocyanins and gingerols are naturally occurring phenolic compounds abundant in berries and ginger, respectively. They have been reported to induce antioxidant effects, inhibit the growth of different cancer cell lines, and stimulate apoptosis by modulating different cellular signal pathways....

Fall 2022

Batres, Daniella

Given the significance of calcium (Ca) in the metabolism of laying hens, the purpose of this thesis was to contribute to existing knowledge regarding Ca metabolism and requirements in these highly productive birds. Phosvitin (PV), is an egg yolk phospholipid protein that increases Ca...

Fall 2022

Khorshidi, Razie

Crossbreeding is a widely used strategy in animal breeding to benefit from complementarity and heterosis. Composite breeds are one of the products of crossbreeding in which animals maintain a stabilized combination of genetic characteristics of two or more pure breeds. Hays Converter (HC), the...

Fall 2022

Rahaman, Md Mizanur

Clubroot (Plasmodiophora brassicae) is an important disease of canola/rapeseed (Brassica napus) and other crucifers. In this study, resistance loci/genes effective against P. brassicae pathotypes 2B, 3A, 3D, 3H, 5C, 5X and 8J were identified and mapped via genotyping-by-sequencing, QTL analysis,...