Report to the Oregon Processed Vegetable Commission
Jim Meyers
OSU Dept of Horticulture
Brian Yorgey
OSU Dept of Food Science and Technology
Objectives:
1. Develop broccoli varieties adapted to western Oregon with:
- Relatively tall plants with exerted heads for easy mechanical harvest
- Large openly branched heads with heavy, clean stem for easy trimming and separation into spears and chunks.
- Medium fine, firm uniform florets of good color and short pedicels, and which are retained after freezing
- Early to midseason maturity, concentrate yield potential
- Head rot, clubroot, and downy mildew resistance
2. Evaluate cytoplasmic male sterility as a method for producing F1 hybrid seed
3. Produce seed for limited scale on-farm trials
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