{"id":16602,"date":"2014-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/a-quebec-researcher-working-with-a-team-from-british-columbia-to-protect-canadian-forests-against-pests\/"},"modified":"2014-10-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T04:00:00","slug":"a-quebec-researcher-working-with-a-team-from-british-columbia-to-protect-canadian-forests-against-pests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/a-quebec-researcher-working-with-a-team-from-british-columbia-to-protect-canadian-forests-against-pests\/","title":{"rendered":"A Qu\u00e9bec researcher working with a team from British Columbia to protect Canadian forests against pests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec is proud to recognize the participation of researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genomequebec.com\/1255-investigator\/roger-c--levesque.html\">Roger C. Levesque<\/a> from the <span>\u00a0Institute for Integrative Systems Biology\u00a0<\/span>of Universit\u00e9 Laval, as co-project leader of Richard Hamelin&#8217;s project (University of British Columbia), with Cameron Duff from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.\u00a0This project, issued from the Genome Canada\u2019s GAAP competition, aims at early detection of pests in Canadian forests by next generation biosurveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Invasive alien species like emerald ash borer are in the news, causing irreversible damage to the environment and costing hundreds of millions of dollars to the Canadian economy, affecting agriculture, forestry and international trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) protects Canada\u2019s forests and agricultural resources by intercepting alien forest pests and intervening before they establish themselves. The Agency is partnering with scientists at the University of British Columbia and a network of academics from Universit\u00e9 Laval in Qu\u00e9bec and Natural Resources Canada to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genomequebec.com\/168-en\/project\/getting-at-pests-early-protecting-canadas-forests-against-invasive-alien-species-by-next-generation-biosurveillance.html\">develop, validate and deploy genome-based biosurveillance tools <\/a>aimed at two species \u2013 the Asian gypsy moth (AGM), which feeds on a wide range of economically important tree species, and <em>Phytophthora ramorum <\/em>(PR), which attacks dozens of plants and tree species including oak trees. The tools will use DNA detection arrays that target unique genome regions in the pests, improving CFIA\u2019s ability to better detect and identify these two species. The project will take approximately three years, after which CFIA laboratories will use the tools to enhance and complement their current procedures.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>To learn about this project, read the press release issued by Genome British Columbia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/data\/nouvelle\/193_en.pdf' download>T\u00e9l\u00e9charger le document<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec is proud to recognize the participation of researcher Roger C. Levesque from the \u00a0Institute for Integrative Systems Biology\u00a0of Universit\u00e9 Laval, as co-project leader of Richard Hamelin&#8217;s project (University&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}