Variety trials

Objectives

The basic objective of the processing component of this research is to support the green bean breeding program being carried out by Dr. Jim Myers in the Horticulture Department. The specific objectives are:

Objectives:

• Breed Bush Blue Lake green bean varieties with high economic yield.
• Improve pod characteristics including straightness, color, smoothness, texture, flavor and quality retention, and combine with delayed seed size development.
• Incorporate white mold tolerance, and improve root rot tolerance while maintaining resistance to bean common mosaic virus.
• Initiate populations to facilitate molecular marker assisted selection of desirable horticultural traits.
• Evaluate novel genetic traits of potential benefit.

Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission

Jim Meyers
OSU Dept of Horticulture

Objectives:

Miller, S., A. Stone, and M. Mcgrath, 2009. Organic Late Blight Management 2009 Webinar by eOrganic. eOrganic webinar. Available at https://eorganic.org/node/4868

Francis, D., 2010. Grafting Tomatoes for Organic Open Field and High Tunnel Production Webinar by eOrganic. eOrganic webinar. Available at https://eorganic.org/node/4985

Objectives:

• To determine the production and processing potential of new introductions of sweet corn.

Objectives:

• To evaluate the agronomic performance of new and established sweet corn varieties at the Malheur Experiment Station, Ontario, OR. 

OBJECTIVE for 1998:

• To evaluate the use of pre-sidedress testing of soil nitrate content (PSNT), and the SPAD leaf chlorophyll meter, to predict the level of additional N needed to grow a sweet corn crop to good yield and quality. 

COOPERATORS:

• Neil Christensen, Dept. of Crop and Soil Science 
• Marvin Kauffman, consultant
• Carol Miles, Washington State University Extension

Funding was used to establish, evaluate, and analyze data from sweet corn field plots established on the Jim Belden farm near Stayton. Twenty hybrids with se or su endosperm were evaluated for resistance to root/crown rot. Ears were also evaluated for processing quality.

Objectives:

• Characterize su and se sweet corn hybrids for reaction to root/crown rot. 

Cooperator: M. Powelson, Botany and Plant Pathology

Objectives:

The general objective of the processing component of this research is to support the green bean breeding program being carried out by Dr. Jim Myers in the Horticulture Department. The specific objectives are: