Dr. Tom Warkentin is a Professor in the Crop Development Centre (CDC)/Department of Plant Sciences, University of Saskatchewan. Tom is breeding pea and soybean cultivars for western Canada, and together with graduate students, post-docs and technicians, he is conducting research to address the key challenges and opportunities associated with these crops. Tom (h-index 64, google scholar) and colleagues have published on research related to improving disease resistance, abiotic stress resistance, protein concentration and quality, and nitrogen fixation in pea, as well as research related to adaptation of soybean to the short season, frontier regions of western Canada. Pea varieties arising from the CDC program have greater than 60% market share in western Canada. The CDC pea and soybean breeding programs use a combination of conventional and molecular breeding approaches.