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 suitable quality, high yields, and disease resistance. Specific traits include:
- Early to midseason maturity
- Concentrated yield potential
- Head rot and downy mildew resistance
- Large openly branched heads that are well exserted and have clean stems for easy trimming and separation into florets
- Firm, uniform florets of good color
- Fine beads with short pedicels, which are retained after freezing
2. Use cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) to produce field scale quantities of F1 hy-brid seed.
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