Project Number: 500-42-001-25
Project Type: Grant

Start Date: Apr 01, 2001
End Date: Mar 31, 2004

Objective:
Improve bruise management through improved potassium nutrition. Screen advanced potato breeding line from several potato breeding programs to help assure that new variety releases are not highly susceptible to blackspot and shatter bruise.

Approach:
1) These studies will make use of tubers from on-going potassium nutrition studies being conducted at Aroostook Research Farm. The field experiments will take place during the 2000 and 2001 growing seasons. Each experiment is a split-plot, randomized complete block design with four replications per mainplot treatment. 2) These studies will utilize tubers collected from advanced breeding and regional variety trial plots conducted annually. Each experiment is a randomized complete block design experiment with four replications. Breeding lines in these trials are primarily from ME, NY, and USDA-ARS Beltsville potato breeding programs.

Project Team

Bennett, A. Rick Gregory Porter - Professor 301-504-6915

Related National Programs

Plant Diseases (303)   Crop Protection & Quarantine (304)