Willamette Valley

The general objective of the processing component of this research is to support the vegetable processing industry in the Willamette Valley by evaluating green beans developed in Jim Myers' bredding program in OSU's Horticulture Department.

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Rao, Sujaya and W. P. Stephen. 2009. Abundance and Diversity of Native Bumble Bees Associated with Agricultural Crops: The Willamette Valley Experience. Psyche. Volume 2010, Article ID 354072, 9 pages. 

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

K.Peterson, R. McReynolds, R. William, and Bill Braunworth
OSU Dept of Horticulture

Objectives:

• To test interspecific hybrids previously obtained for disease resistance.
• To design methods to redifferentiate plants from bean tissue culture by examining the effects of novel hormone metabolites recently isolated from bean embryos.

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Jim Baggett      
OSU Dept. of Horticulture

Objectives:

1. Test carrot breeding lines developed in the U.S. Department of Agriculture carrot breeding program for resistance to the motley dwarf virus complex.

Objectives: To evaluate yield, uniformity, plant characteristics, and ear characteristics in the field, and processed quality of new varietal introductions of supersweet (sh2) corn.

Objectives:

• Test Plant Introduction lines and other germplasm sources for high field resistance to head smut.
• Determine if immunity or true seedling resistance exists in germplasm sources.
• Test commercial F1 hybrids and inbreds for head smut resistance.