PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

SELECTED MEDIA

Strengthening local seed security - David Catzel of Farm Folk City Folk (2025). The Seed Farmer Podcast. 

Seed protections for farmers supported by NDP Agriculture Critic Gord Johns (2025). Island Social Trends.

Collaborative variety trials and plant breeding support Canada’s organic growers (2025). Organic Science Cluster. 

A shared harvest: One mentor’s journey with a new mentee (2025). Organic Alberta, page 14.

Feds look to limit farmers' ancient practice of saving seed (2024). National Observer. 

Food security starts with seeds (2023). The Ubyssey.

What’s the deal with raddicchio, and why are people talking about it? (2023). Organic Alberta.

Sowing seeds of sustainability in Nova Scotia (2022). Halifax Examiner. 

Iain Storosko and Aabir Dey on Plant Breeding (2021). Grain on the Brain Podcast.

Seeding the Future: Farmers Participate in Plant Breeding (2021). The Western Producer.

Canada's seed system is complicated. Does it need an update? (2020). National Observer.

Make your own seed initiative enters its ninth year (2019). Grainnews.

Weston heiress uses fortune to support seed diversity (2016). The Western Producer.

Aabir Dey on Seed Security (2015). G.S. Jameson & Company: Legal Expertise in Food Matters Podcast. 

Saving seeds: Atlantic Canada's first regional seed bank finds its home at the Faculty of Agriculture (2014). Dal News. 

U of M project puts DIY back into plant breeding (2014). Manitoba Co-operator.

Canada focuses on food security with seed diversity initiative (2014). EcoWatch.

SELECTED ACADEMIC ARTICLES

Carkner, M., & Entz, M. H. (2025). Canadian organic wheat breeding with on-farm selection: A case study using landrace and modern parents. Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 105: 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjps-2024-0131

Carkner, M. K., & Entz, M. H. (2024). Determining adaptability of farmer bred spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) genotypes to Canadian organic production using stability analysis. Plant Breeding, 143(4), 500-517. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbr.13180

Jowett, M. (2023). Value chain discovery of Canadian participatory plant breeders. [Master’s thesis]. University of Manitoba. https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/handle/1993/37290

Storosko, I. (2022). Participatory plant breeding in Canada: The political ecology of participatory research networks for organic agriculture. [Master’s Thesis]. Carleton University. https://carleton.scholaris.ca/items/da0714fa-80e9-43af-83f3-b260b669a242

Rolhauser, A. G., Windfeld, E., Hanson, S., Wittman, H., Thoreau, C., Lyon, A., & Isaac, M. E. (2022). A trait–environment relationship approach to participatory plant breeding for organic agriculture. New Phytologist, 235(3), 1018–1031. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18203

Lyon, A., Friedmann, H., & Wittman, H. (2021). Can public universities play a role in fostering seed sovereignty?. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 9(1), 00089. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.00089

Thoreau, C. (2021). Opportunities and constraints to seed sovereignty for organic vegetable farmers in British Columbia. [Master’s thesis]. University of British Columbia. https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0406191

Isaac, M. E., Nimmo, V., Gaudin, A. C., Leptin, A., Schmidt, J. E., Kallenbach, C. M., ... & Lu, X. (2021). Crop domestication, root trait syndromes, and soil nutrient acquisition in organic agroecosystems: a systematic review. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5, 716480. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.716480

Worden-Rogers, N. J., Glasgow, K., Knezevic, I., & Hughes, S. (2019). Seed saving in Atlantic Canada: Sustainable food through sharing and education. Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, 6(3), 108-125. https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v6i3.352

Entz, M. H., Kirk, A. P., Carkner, M., Vaisman, I., & Fox, S. L. (2018). Evaluation of lines from a farmer participatory organic wheat breeding program. Crop Science, 58(6), 2433-2443. https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2018.04.0241

SELECTED INDUSTRY PUBLICATIONS

Dang, M., Hughes, S., Dey, A. (2024). Building Climate-Resilient Seed Systems in Canada. SeedChange. https://weseedchange.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Building-Climate-Resilient-Seed-Systems-in-Canada.pdf

Ryan, E., Fava, E., Nugent, T., van Erk, A., Bizimungu, B., & Wagg, C. (2021). Field performance of farmer-selected organic potato varieties. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Gi0JgZbimB8_Ba_KECLeH5Nor9pK2cL/view

Dey, A., McLean, R., Hick, C., MacKinnon, S., Marder-Eppstein, I., Thoreau, C., & Lyon, A. (2018). 2018 Canadian Organic and Ecological Plant Breeding Priorities for Vegetable Crops. The Bauta Family Initiative on Canadian Seed Security. https://www.seedsecurity.ca/images/survey-report/2018-Survey-Report-Canadian-Organic-and-Ecological-Plant-Breeding-Priorities.pdf

Jamieson, S., Hughes, S., & Knezevic, I. (2016). Considerations for seed security and biodiversity conservation in Newfoundland. Atlantic Canadian Organic Regional Network: Sackville, NB, Canada. http://nourishingontario.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Considerations-for-Seed-Security-and-Biodiversity-Conversation-in-Newfoundland.pdf 

Levert, M. E. (2014). The market for organic & ecological seed in Canada. Canada Organic Trade Association. https://www.seedsecurity.ca/doc/seedmarketstudy_EN_Dec5.pdf