December 2023
Tropical fruit research- Gustavo Teixiera
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Title: TBD – Connor Buckley, MS Student Horticulture, WSU
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Find out more »Working in Industry and professional development- Daniel Zommick
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Find out more »Potato Breeding- Cari Schmitz-Carley
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Find out more »Impact of hive placement on blueberry pollination and honey bee exposure to pesticide drift – Kayla Brouwer, MS Student, Horticulture, WSU
Northern highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum; hereafter “blueberry”) is an economically important crop with Michigan, Oregon, and Washington collectively producing 64% of all blueberries grown in the United States. Blueberry production relies on insect-mediated pollination in order to obtain profitable yields and growers primarily use rented honey bee (Apis mellifera) hives for pollination services. Blueberry flower morphology is not conducive to efficient pollination by honey bees and poor weather can further reduce honey bee activity and pollination success. Additionally, commercial blueberry…
Find out more »October 2023
Research Updates from Departmental Post-doctoral Associates
Huiting Zhang: Enhancing fruit quality with functional genomics via bottom-up and top-down approaches Rene Mogollon: Predicting Postharvest Fruit Outcomes Based on Hyperspectral images Tyler Biggs: Smoke Exposed Vineyards: Untargeted Metabolomic Assay Analysis 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.
Find out more »UTILIZING A NON-DESTRUCTIVE APPROACH TO IMPROVE UNIFORMITY OF PHASE 2 FRUIT SAMPLES IN THE WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY APPLE BREEDING PROGRAM – India Cain, MS Student in Horticulture, WSU
The Washington State University Apple Breeding Program is composed of three phases of selection. Phase 2 accessions consist of five replicate trees that are evaluated for several years at three geographically diverse sites in Washington. Each accession is harvested over three picks using subjective maturity assessments that include change in the background color and starch degradation. Lack of information regarding optimal harvest date, limited fruit and variable maturity throughout the canopy can lead to large within-sample variations of maturity in…
Find out more »Private and Contract Research – Life Away from the University – Jeff Miller, Miller Research
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,…
Find out more »Postharvest Genomics – Loren Honaas, USDA-ARS
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Find out more »September 2023
It’s About the Apples! Supporting Hard Cider Production through Pomological Research and Outreach- Greg Peck
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…
Find out more »AI in Agriculture – Ananth Kalyanaraman, EECS, WSU
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Find out more »Automation in Agriculture – Walt Duflock, Western Growers
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Find out more »AgWeatherNet: An introduction to the network, data, and decision support tools – Sean Hill, WSU
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."
Find out more »August 2023
Modernizing Potato Germplasm Enhancement Breeding in the Pacific Northwest – Max Feldman, USDA-ARS
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…
Find out more »Welcome, Seminar 509/510 Introduction
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