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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 22:34, 5 December 2015 (UTC)

Cereal Research Centre

 * ... that research at the Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg led to the development of several hundred varieties of plant species resistant to pests and blights?


 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Telengard (see my DYK tracker)

Moved to mainspace by Mindmatrix (talk). Self-nominated at 22:29, 19 November 2015 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg NSERC reference [7] leads to a generic page and Industry Canada reference [9] does not work. Also the phrase "several hundred" cannot be directly verified. I can see some numbers regarding the varieties but they add up to less than 300. Also the phrase "About 50% of all wheat and oat sown in Canada are varieties..." does not specify how many total and if they are disease resistant. The rest of the DYK requirements look good. More details when the questions are resolved. Dr.   K.  19:19, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I've added an archive link for the NSERC ref; the Industry Canada ref seems to have disappeared from the internet. (Perhaps I shouldn't have left this in userspace for ten months.) The "several hundred" can be changed to "over two hundred" or "over two hundred and fifty"; I originally used the phrase to avoid saying "hundreds", which seemed misleading to me. Regarding the "about 50%..." statement, it's (unfortunately) sourced to the Industry Canada ref; I'll see if I can find another source to elaborate in the next few days. According to the NSERC ref, they are all disease-resistant varieties, per the quotation included in the article "high-yielding, disease-resistant varieties", which I squirreled away into an earlier paragraph but neglected to mention the most important bit, which I'll fix soon. Mind  matrix  02:55, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Great, thank you . If you propose an ALT1 with the more precise phrasing I will approve it and it will be good to go. Dr.   K.  03:06, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * ALT1: ... that research at the Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg led to the development of over two hundred varieties of crop plants resistant to pests and blights?
 * My apologies for taking so long; I've been researching info about races of cultivated crops in Canada, but haven't come up with a better source than what's currently provided. (I did find Races of Puccinia graminis on wheat, barley, and oat in Canada, in 2002 and 2003 at the Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology, and Cereal rust control in Canada at CSIRO, but there's no info about the source of the races mentioned. Sigh.) I had hoped to update the counts and sources of the varieties released, but alas I'll have to settle for slightly altering the hook. I've also removed the word 'species', as it may be misleading (there are 250+ varieties of about a dozen species) and added 'crop' for clarification. Mind  matrix  19:25, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
 * ALT2: ... that the Cereal Research Centre in Winnipeg produced over two hundred varieties of crop and ornamental plants resistant to pests and blights?
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Good to go. ALT2 approved. Recent move to mainspace, length, policy-compliance verified. No copyvios detected. Thank you . Dr.   K.  20:33, 1 December 2015 (UTC)