Claude Caldwell
Professor Emeritus (Retired)
Email: claude.caldwell@dal.ca
Phone: (902) 893.6680
Mailing Address:
Department of Plant, Food, and Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Agriculture
Agricultural Campus
PO Box 550
Truro, NS, B2N 5E3
Research Topics:Faculty of Agriculture
Agricultural Campus
PO Box 550
Truro, NS, B2N 5E3
- New crop development
- Cropping systems
- Cereal and oilseed crop physiology management
- Water relations and environmental stress effects on crops
- Sustainable agriculture
- Agroecology
Education
- B.Sc.(Hon.) (Mount Allison) - Biology
- M.Sc.(Dalhousie) - Physiological Ecology
- Ph.D (East Anglia) - Plant Biophysics
Current research projects
- Management of New Cereal Cultivars for Economic Return
- Identifivation of novel-use oilseeds for the Maritime Provinces
- Regional Cooperative Cereal and Oilseed Tests
- Development of Triticale as an Alternative Grain Crop
- Development of products from Camelina sativa and Brassica carinata
- Galathamine from daffodils
International interests
- Community-Based Resource Management; Issues in Sustainability, Livelihood & Equity
- Curriculum Development for Agricultural Resource Management
- Agri-Education for Extension in Cambodia
- Post-Harvest Management to Improve Livelihoods (PHMIL) in Ethiopia
Memberships
- Member, Atlantic Provinces Cultivar Cereal Task Group
- Member, Board of Directors of the Canadian Seed Growers Association (CSGA)
Selected publications
- J. D. Wilson, V.D. Zheliazkov, B. Rathgeber, C.D. Caldwell 2008. Reduction in phosphorus availability in poultry and dairy manure by mineral amendments. Soil Science and Plant Nutrition 54:600-605
- V.J. Zheliazkov, K.M. Bowes, C.D. Caldwell, J.A. Pincock, J.C. Roberts and L. Mapplebeck 2008 Cultivar and sowing effects on seed yield and oil composition of coriander in Atlantic Canada. Industrial Crops and Products 28:88-94
- S.D. Urbaniak1, C.D. Caldwell1,2, V.D. Zheljazkov3, R. Lada1 and L. Luan2008 The effect of cultivar and applied nitrogen on the performance of Camelina sativa L. in the Maritime Provinces of Canada Can J Plant Sci88:111-119.
- S.D. Urbaniak1, C.D. Caldwell1,2, V.D. Zheljazkov3, R. Lada1 and L. Luan 2008 The Effect of Seeding Rate, Seeding Date and Seeder Type on the Performance of Camelina sativa L. in the Maritime Provinces of Canada Can J Pl Sci 88:501-508
- F.C. Pettipas, R.R. Lada, C.D. Caldwell and P. Warman 2008 Critical tissue identification and soil-plant nutrient relationships in dicer carrot Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 29:1-26