Clint Shock, Erik Feibert, Greg Willison and Monty Saunders
Malheur Experiment Station
Oregon State University
Ontario, Oregon, 1996
Objectives:
Sweet corn and supersweet corn varieties were evaluated for agronomic and processing performance.
OBJECTIVES:
To evaluate the use of pre-sidedress testing of soil nitrate content (PSNT), leaf chlorophyll content, and leaf tissue N, to predict the level of additional N needed to grow the crop to good yield and quality.
PROJECT LEADER: Robert B. McReynolds, District Extension Agent, IR-4 Field Research Center Coordinator
COOPERATORS: Rick Melnicoe, Director, Western Region 1R-4 & Jeffrey Jenkins, Extension Specialist, Agricultural Chemistry
OBJECTIVE:
PROJECT LEADERS: Delbert D. Hemphill, North Willamette R&E Center; Ernie Marx, John Hart, and
Richard Dick, Dept. of Crop and Soil Science
COOPERATORS: John Selker, Dept. of Bioresources Engineering; Neil Christensen and Peter
Bottomley, Dept. of Crop and Soil Science
OBJECTIVES FOR 1996:
To evaluate effects of several winter cover crop systems, including fall-seeded and overseeded triticale, fall-seeded triticale plus winter pea, and overseeded red clover on yield and quality of sweet corn at three rates of N. The cover crops follow broccoli fertilized with three rates of N.
To evaluate the effect of these cover crops and the N applied to sweet corn on the amount of nitrate leached below the root zone.
To evaluate the effect of these cropping systems on the potential for herbicide degredation in the soil profile.
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
The basic objective of the processing component of this research is to support the green bean breeding program being carried out by Dr. Jim Baggett in the Horticulture Department.
The specific objectives are:
To provide Dr. Baggett and the Oregon vegetable processing industry with frozen and canned samples of experimental green bean lines for comparison to varieties currently grown in Oregon,
To organize and conduct the industry cutting for evaluation of experimental beans, including data analysis, and
Objectives:
Evaluate potential of using fertilizer impregnated with Goal for weed control in seeded
broccoli and cauliflower.
Improve weed control efficiency of Goal on transplanted cauliflower.
OBJECTIVES:
To devise regeneration systems in beans adaptable to transformation using
Agrobacterium infection.
To design and optimize conditions to deliver DNAs using particle bombardment.
Project Leader:
Dan McGrath, OSU Extension
Cooperators:
Dr. Marcos Kogan, OSU Integrated Plant Protection Center
Dr. Glenn Fisher, OSU Dept. of Entomology
Duane Smith, AGRIPAC - Eugene, Oregon
Jim Gill, NORPAC - Stayton, Oregon