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Welcome, Seminar 509/510 Introduction

Statewide Seminar (various locations)

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.

Modernizing Potato Germplasm Enhancement Breeding in the Pacific Northwest – Max Feldman, USDA-ARS

Statewide Seminar (various locations)

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 […]

Automation in Agriculture – Walt Duflock, Western Growers

Statewide Seminar (various locations)

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.

AI in Agriculture – Ananth Kalyanaraman, EECS, WSU

Statewide Seminar (various locations)

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.

It’s About the Apples! Supporting Hard Cider Production through Pomological Research and Outreach- Greg Peck

Statewide Seminar (various locations)

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 […]

Postharvest Genomics – Loren Honaas, USDA-ARS

Statewide Seminar (various locations)

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.

Private and Contract Research – Life Away from the University – Jeff Miller, Miller Research

Statewide Seminar (various locations)

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 […]

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

Statewide Seminar (various locations)

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 […]

Research Updates from Departmental Post-doctoral Associates

Statewide Seminar (various locations)

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 […]

Impact of hive placement on blueberry pollination and honey bee exposure to pesticide drift – Kayla Brouwer, MS Student, Horticulture, WSU

Statewide Seminar (various locations)

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 […]

Potato Breeding- Cari Schmitz-Carley

Statewide Seminar (various locations)

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.

Title: TBD – Connor Buckley, MS Student Horticulture, WSU

Statewide Seminar (various locations)

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.

Tropical fruit research- Gustavo Teixiera

Statewide Seminar (various locations)

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.