Fresh Market Vegetable Production

Objectives: Breed bush green beans for the western Oregon processing industry with:

• Improved potential for high yields at favorable sieve sizes and dependability
• Improved straightness, texture, and other quality factors
• Develop easy picking and small pod strains of Blue Lake type
• Resistance to white mold and root rot

Objectives:

• To enhance the recovery of interspecific hybrids of the common bean with tepary and runner beans.
• To devise and apply methodologies to distinguish embryos with high degrees of hybridity from those resembling the parental types in later progeny populations.

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OBJECTIVES:

• To evaluate the effect of plant spacing on yield and disease incidence in two broccoli cultivars
• To evaluate the effect of frequency and amount of irrigation water on yield and disease incidence in three broccoli cultivars

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of registered and unregistered chemical controls of Downy Mildew of Table Beets (Peronospora schachtii) and other foliar diseases of beets.

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

C. Burnett and C. Shock
OSU Malheur Agricultural Experiment Station

 Objectives:

1. Determine the role of seed size in super sweet corn stand establishment.
2. Evaluate the effect of seed treatments and seed coatings upon super sweet corn emergence.

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Glenn Fisher, K. West, and R. Berry
OSU Dept. of Entomology

Objectives:

1. Continue investigation of pheromone traps to predict cutworm infestations.
2. Test efficacy of registered insecticides for control of the black cutworm, emphasis on detection and timing.
3. Test insecticide bait for detection and control of black cutworm.
4. Determine when black cutworm gets into to table beets, overwintering and migration.

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Brian Croft, Glenn Fischer, Leonard Coop, and Ray Derapek
OSU Dept of Entomology

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Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Dan McGrath
OSU Dept of Horticulture

Mary Powelson
OSU Dept of Botany and Plant Pathology

Objectives:

1. To evaluate timing, rate, and number of applications of foliar fungicides for control of grey mold and white mold of snap beans.
2. To evaluate the efficacy of two biocontrol agents for control of grey mold of snap beans.

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Jim Baggett
OSU Dept of Horticulture

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