WINNIPEG, Manitoba—Inside a laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, a Monsanto Co. research technician uses tweezers to transfer pollen from one canola plant to another, a small step toward creating a new breed of the vegetable oil-producing crop.
It’s an early stage of a high-stakes effort to control the biggest threat to Canada’s C$27-billion canola industry—a crop disease called clubroot that presents unique challenges for Monsanto, along with rival seed developers DowDuPont and Bayer AG.
