Project Number: 5305-21000-011-02
Project Type: Trust

Start Date: Apr 01, 1999
End Date: Mar 31, 2004

Objective:
Development of landmark cultivars and advanced generation breeding lines for use by other breeders. Continued development of improved, adapted cultivars to meet new disease and insect problems, changes in the market, and changes in growing procedures. Produce new cultivars by utilizing new and traditional methods to incorporate useful genes from both cultivars and exotic sources.

Approach:
Evaluate cultivars and PI accessions for useful traits. Plant trials in coastal and desert districts to evaluate yield, head size, and shape, color and various disease, insect, and stress resistances. Look for tipburn, rib blight, pink rib, lettuce chlorosis, and bolting. Continue statewide trials of cultivars and breeding lines. Groups of lines with single or combined resistances will be grown in field trials for evaluation under commercial conditions. Documents Trust with California Lettuce Research Board (#58-5305-9-0108). Formerly 5305-21000-010-02T (9/03).

Project Team

Grube, Rebecca McCreight, James - Jim Mou, Beiquan

Project Annual Reports

FY 2003   FY 2002   FY 2001   FY 2000   FY 1999

Related National Programs

Plant, Microbial & Insect Genetic Res., Genomics, & Genetic Improv. I (301)   Plant Diseases (303)