This talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department's weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely.

Potato breeding in the Pacific Northwest has traditionally relied almost exclusively on brute force phenotypic selection to narrow the pool of candidates from tens of thousands of progeny to a handful of tetraploid clone releases over a 10 – 15 year period. Although this strategy has yielded fantastic new cultivars that exhibit superior yield, improved storage quality, and novel disease resistance packages; the overall rate of genetic gain over time will remain low unless the genomic selection schema used in…

From observed values and forecast weather to long-term climatology and weather-driven models, AWN provides a wide range of resources for the people of Washington State.  We'll discuss data acquisition and quality assurance; highlight recent tools that have been released; and future goals of the program."

This talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department's weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely.

This talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department's weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely.

With a US$1.7B total economic impact in New York State alone, hard (fermented) cider has become an important value-added product in the alcohol beverage sector. My research program has conducted cost of production studies, characterized over 375 potential cider apple cultivars, and developed orchard management practices that leads to greater fruit and thus cider quality. For high-density orchard systems, we found that many cider apple cultivars can be cropped twice as much as culinary cultivars to achieve the greatest long-term yields, juice…

This talk will be provided in the Horticulture Department's weekly seminar series. Please contact the organizers if you would like a video conference link to attend remotely.

Jeff Miller was raised on a research farm in southern Idaho.  He earned a B.S. degree in Botany—Biotechnology from BYU in 1994 and M.S. (1996) and Ph.D. (1998) degrees in Plant Pathology at Washington State University working on potato late blight. Jeff worked for two years at the University of Minnesota and six years at the University of Idaho in Aberdeen as a potato pathologist conducting research on pink rot, powdery scab, early blight, late blight, silver scurf, black dot,…