Owen, Josée, M.Sc.

Contact Information:

PO Box 2069
Bouctouche, New Brunswick E4S 2J2
Telephone: 506-743-1144
Fax: 506-743-8316
Email: josee.owen@agr.gc.ca

Areas of Expertise:

• Development of vegetable cropping systems adapted to Maritime growing conditions
• Evaluation effects of cropping system factors such as overwintering, use of mulches and novel varieties on produce yield and quality
• Improving knowledge of relationships between plant-available soil nutrients and organic matter in organic vegetable rotational cropping systems;
• Long-term rotations experiments

Current Projects:

• Improving the economic sustainability of leek and spinach production systems in Atlantic Canada through development of over-wintering systems
• Integration of compost and legume management in organic rotation systems and the impacts on soil quality parameters, nutrient cycling, soil organic matter and greenhouse gas emissions.
• Evaluation of exotic sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) germsplasm under Maritime conditions for yield potential, cool-climate adaptation, and novel morphological traits and characterization of bioactive phtochemicals in promising lines.

Affiliations:

• Project Management Team, Ghana Institute of Horticulturists/Canadian Society of Horticultural Science/Agricultural Institute of Canada Dry Season Vegetable Project

Recent Publications:

2009:

• Paulin, M.M., Novinscak, A., St-Arnaud, M., Goyer, C., DeCoste, N.J., Privé, J.-P., Owen, J., and Filion, M. (2009). "Transcriptional activity of antifungal metabolite-encoding genes phlD and hcnBC in Pseudomonas spp. Using qRT-PCR.", FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 68(2), pp. 212-222. DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2009.00669.x

2008:

• Clegg, E., Lynch, D.H., Owen, J., and Burton, D. (2008). "Nitrous Oxide Emissions from an Organically Managed Potato Rotation.", Plants and Soils: Montreal '08: Joint meeting of the CSHS, CSA and Northeastern Branch ASA-CSSA-SSSA, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, July 13-16, 2008. (Poster)
• Owen, J., Ceplis, D., Pritchard, M.K., McDonald, M.R., Kumah, P., Idun, I., Mahunu, G., and Abdul-Halim, A. (2008). "CSHS partnership with Ghana Institute of Horticulturists works to support vegetable horticulture and improve livelihoods.", Plants and Soils: Montreal '08: Joint meeting of the CSHS, CSA and Northeastern Branch ASA-CSSA-SSSA, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, July 13-16, 2008. (Poster)
• Owen, J., Kalt, W., Shi, J., Fillmore, S.A.E., and Zvalo, V. (2008). "Diversely coloured sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) grown under Maritime conditions.", Plants and Soils: Montreal '08: Joint meeting of the CSHS, CSA and Northeastern Branch ASA-CSSA-SSSA, Montréal, QC, Canada, July 13-16, 2008. (Presentation)
• Owen, J., LeBlanc, S., Toner, P., Nduwamungu, C., and Fava, E. (2008). "Evaluation of fresh and aged clam processing wastes as potential agricultural liming materials for coastal area vegetable production soils.", Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 88(4), pp. 559-569.

2006:

• Owen, J., LeBlanc, S., and Fillmore, S.A.E. (2006). "Short-term effects of soil disturbance by mechanical weeding on plant available nutrients in and organic vs. conventional rotations experiment.", Annals of Applied Biology, 79, pp. 301-306.
• Paulin, M.M., Novinscak, A., St-Arnaud, M., Privé, J.-P., Owen, J., and Filion, M. (2006). "Molecular functional characterization of antibiotic-producing rhizobacteria capable of controlling plant pathogen populations.", 11th International Conference of the International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME-11), Vienna, Austria, August 20-25, 2006, pp. A20.