Research Projects

A labile carbon input would displace some phosphorus into the soil solution, thus making it available again for assimilation into growing plants.

This project will modify current protocols with the addition of labile carbon to preserve or rapidly restore the activity of beneficial microorganisms.

This project relies on the continuous measurement of field water table heights; water exports; as well as sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus runoff into drains at four field-crop production sites.

This project aims to develop an accessible and user-friendly web application that let stakeholders search the IRDA potato soil database, one of the largest in Canada, to visualize the impact of growing practices and protocols on the biological, physicochemical, and agronomic characteristics of soils cultivated with different cropping systems.

 Terranimo® tool adaptation at the terms and conditions of Québec. 

Developing a fast and sensitive molecular detection methodology able to accurately identify raspberry and strawberry viruses.

Evaluating and developing a high-throughput sequencing-based diagnostic procedure to identify pathogenic organisms.

Three-year project on an array of mitigation protocols to reduce the application of glyphosate in a field crop system (corn–soybean–grains).

Project to quantify the long-term (60+ years) severity of erosion of organic horticultural soils.

Method to monitor and control telluric pathogens affecting potatoes that takes into account the interactions between these pathogens and other soil microbiome organisms.

Project to determine the real value of the phosphorus load associated with bison production in Québec.

This project aims to improve our understanding of the evolution and spatial variability of soil health indicators as barometers of climate change.

Demonstration project to showcase the ability of undersown clover cover crops to reduce nitrogen fertilizer requirements in crops.

Quantification of the scale of soil displacement and net sediment production in the past 50 years for various soil textures and compare these results with those generated by modeling the watershed with SWAT.

The aim of the project is to assess the impact of applying various rates of glyphosate in field crop systems on the soil and crop rhizosphere microbiome.