A former Brantford woman's love for science has led to a rewarding career in the agri-food industry. Kelsie MacLellan is a plant breeder for HeinzSeed in Leamington, Ontario where she has developed a new variety of processing tomato that is showing much promise.
"I try to create new varieties that are extremely resistant to tomato diseases or pathogens," MacLellan explained. "H2590 is one of my new offerings that has been performing extremely well through the trial phase in Europe and South America."
She is responsible for crops in the largest tomato-growing countries in the world including Italy, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Chile, and parts of North America.
MacLellan creates 300 new varieties of tomato each year and spends summers working 10-to-12-hour days, seven days a week in tomato fields around the world evaluating red fruit on the vine.
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