Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

See details of the meeting in the attached Meeting Minutes. As soon as NIMSS is fixed and will allow the uploading of data for all sections of this site, the 2014 full State reports will be found in NIMSS on the W_OLD006 Homepage under the "Additional Documents" tab at: http://nimss.umd.edu/lgu_v2/homepages/attachs.cfm?trackID=11296

 

 

This project manages a diverse collection of important agricultural crop genetic resources and associated information that are accessible by plant breeders around the world to develop new cultivars with improved quality and increased productivity, which are critical for feeding the expanding world population. We continue to acquire, characterize and evaluate priority crop accessions. The resulting information has been uploaded to the GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) database, which the global user community can access via the Internet.

The Research Agronomist is continuing a project to improve the oil content and percentage of oleic fatty acids in winter hardy safflower to meet the need for the edible market. Segregating populations derived from crosses between high oil and high oleic acid lines and winter-type safflower germplasms were evaluated for cold tolerance under controlled conditions. Seed from this screening was increased and fall planted for overwintering field evaluation in 2013-14 in cooperation with Seed-Tec, Cal Oils, and a public university in Argentina.

The Research Geneticist developed a "pure-line" lettuce collection of 298 germplasm lines where each line is homozygous for all 322 single nucleotide polymorphism markers genotyped by a high throughput assay. A preliminary association study revealed several significant marker-trait associations between certain markers and important horticultural traits. The pure-line set was distributed to a lettuce breeder at the University of Florida to screen for resistance to lettuce bacterial leaf spot, a devastating foliar disease in Florida. In cooperation with Washington State University, a subset has been screened for ability to germinate at low temperature with the purpose of providing this information to breeders to develop new cultivars for extended season production.

The Research Plant Pathologist surveyed fungi in seed of white lupine in multiple accessions at WRPIS for seed health. No major pathogens were detected, and overall results indicate seed is healthy, although fungi capable of causing damping off were detected. Some results comprise new fungus-host records. The Alfalfa Curator collaborated with an ARS breeder in Prosser, WA and screened 200 accessions for drought tolerance in the field and greenhouse. Two accessions appeared promising and the evaluation data will be uploaded into GRIN. In collaboration with an ARS breeder in Madison, WI and a breeder of Pioneer Hybrid, we identified 200 old cultivars and landraces of alfalfa that had been collected in markets or donated by agricultural institutes in countries having a similar hardiness zone as Wisconsin. These accessions are being evaluated at two locations and data will be placed in GRIN once evaluations are complete.

During the year, our scientists published 22 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, contributed to two book chapters and made 23 oral or poster presentations at 19 international, national and regional conferences. Our scientists were active in serving the scientific community by organizing workshops in international research conferences, reviewing research proposals submitted to funding agencies at national and regional levels, reviewing manuscripts for publication in national and international scientific journals, and giving advice to researchers and growers. Staff members also participated in local career fairs and in outreach to local schools. As of December 31, 2013, there were 94,642 plant accessions belonging to 1,308 genera, 4,802 species and 5,397 taxa in the WRPIS collection. During 2013 calendar year, we distributed a total of 38,022 packets of seed samples to 1,220 requestors from 43 foreign countries and all 50 domestic states.

Alomran, M.M., S.L. Lupien, C.J. Coyne, and F.M. Dugan. 2013. Mycobiota of Lupinus albus seeds from a public germplasm collection. North American Fungi 8(4): 1-15.

Borrelli, K., R.T. Koenig, B.M. Jaeckel, C.A. Miles. 2013. Yield of leafy greens in high tunnel winter production in the northwest United States. HortSci. 48:183-188.

Buller, S. D. Inglis and C. Miles. 2013. Plant growth, fruit yield and quality, and tolerance to Verticillium wilt of grafted watermelon and tomato in field production in the Pacific Northwest. HortSci. 48:1003-1009.

Coyne C.J., R.J. McGee. 2013. Lentil, Chapter 7. In: M. Singh and I.S. Bisht, editors, “Genetic and Genomic Resources for Grain Legume Improvement.” Elsevier Insights, London. Pp. 157-180.

Dugan, F.M. 2013. Golovinomyces spadiceus causing powdery mildew on Coreopsis hybrid 'Full Moon' (Heliantheae, Asteraceae) in Washington State. North American Fungi 8(1): 1-3. doi:10.2509/naf2013.008.001.

Dugan, F.M. 2013. Yeasts: What's in a name? A brief reconnaissance and sampling of literature. FUNGI Magazine 6(4): 45-46.

Gallinato, S., and C. Miles. 2013. Economic profitability of growing lettuce and tomato in western Washington under high tunnel and open-field production systems. HortTech. 23:453-461.

Gao, J., M.M. Radwan, F. Leon, O.R. Dale, A.S. Husni, Y. Wu, S. Lupien, X. Wang, S.P. Manly, R.A. Hill, F.M. Dugan, H.G. Cutler, and S.J. Cutler. 2013. Neocosmospora sp.-derived resorcylic acid lactones with in vitro binding affinity for human opioid receptors and cannabinoid receptors. Journal of Natural Products. 76: 824-828.

Hamon, C., C.J. Coyne, R.J. McGee, A. Lesné, R. Esnault, P. Mangin, M. Hervé, I. Le Goff, G. Deniot , M. Roux-Duparque, G. Morin, K.E. McPhee, R. Delourme, A. Baranger, M.-L. Pilet-Nayel. 2013. QTL meta-analysis provides a comprehensive view of the moderately low diversity of loci controlling partial resistance to Aphanomyces euteiches in four pea sources of resistance. BMC Plant Biology 13(1):45.

Johnson, R.C. and M. Evans. 2013. Comparative growth and development of hexaploid and tetraploid Reed Canarygrass. Crop Science. doi: 10.2135/cropsci2013.07.0430.

Johnson, R.C., B.C. Hellier, and K. W. Vance-Borland. 2013. Genecology and seed zones for tapertip onion in the US Great Basin. Botany. 91:686-694.

Johnson, S., C. Miles, and D.A. Inglis. 2013. First report of Verticillium wilt caused by V. dahliae on grafted Solanum aethiopicum in Washington. Plant Dis. 97:840.

Johnson, S., D.A. Inglis, and C. Miles. 2013. Grafting effects on eggplant growth, yield and verticillium wilt incidence. Intl. J. Veg. Sci. doi:10.1080/1915269.2012.751473.

Khoury, C., S.L. Greene, J.H. Wiersema, N. Maxted, A.Jarvis, P.C. Struik. 2013. An inventory of crop wild relatives of the United States. Crop Science. 53:1496-1508.

Kwon, SJ., I. Simko, B. Hellier, B.Q. Mou, J. Hu. 2013. Genome-wide association of 10 horticultural traits with expressed sequence tag-derived SNP markers in a collection of lettuce lines. The Crop Journal. 1:25-33.

Kwon, SJ., P. Smykal, J. Hu, M. Wang, SJ. Kim, RJ. McGee, K. McPhee and CJ. Coyne. 2013. User-friendly markers linked to fusarium wilt race 1 resistance gene in pea for marker assisted selection. Plant Breeding. 132:642–648.

Lawrence, D.J., P.B. Gannibal, F.M. Dugan, and B.M. Pryor. 2013. Characterization of Alternaria isolates from the infectoria species-group and a new taxon from Arrhenatherum, Pseudoalternaria arrhenatheria sp. nov. Mycological Progress published online 22 June DOI 10.1007/s11557-013-0910-x.

Lupien, S.L., B.C. Hellier, F.M. Dugan, L.G. Skoglund, and K.F. Ward. 2013. White rot of garlic and onion (causal agent, Sclerotium cepivorum): A status report from the Pacific Northwest. Plant Health Progress doi:10.1094/PHP-2013-0619-01-RV.

Ma, Y., S.Y. Bao, T. Yang1, J. Hu, J.P. Guan, Y.H. He, X.J. Wang, Y.L. Wan, X.L. Sun, J.Y. Jiang, C.X. Gong, X.X. Zong. 2013. Genetic linkage map of Chinese native variety faba bean (Vicia faba L.) based on simple sequence repeat markers. Plant Breeding. 132: 397–400.

Powell, M., Gundersen, B., Miles, C., Coats, K., and Inglis, D. A. 2013. First report of Verticillium wilt on lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) in Washington caused by V. tricorpus I. Plant Dis. 97:996. doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-12-12-1166-PDN.

Richardson, K. L., B.H. Hellier, (2013) Wild/weed Beta populations in the Imperial Valley, California. Journal of Sugar Beet Research. 50:55-56.

Sen Gupta, D., D. Thavarajah, P. Knutson, P. Thavarajah, R. McGee, C. Coyne, S. Kumar. 2013. Lentils (Lens culinaris L.), a rich source of folates. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 61:7794–7799.

Smýkal, P., C.J. Coyne, R. Redden, N. Maxted. 2013. Peas. Chapter 3. In: M. Singh and I.S. Bisht, editors, “Genetic and Genomic Resources for Grain Legume Improvement.” Elsevier Insights, London. Pp. 41-80.

St. Clair, J. Bradley, F. F. Kilkenny, R. C. Johnson, N. L. Shaw, and G.Weaver. 2013. Genetic variation in adaptive traits and seed transfer zones for Pseudoroegneria spicata (bluebunch wheatgrass) in the northwestern United States. Evolutionary Applications 6:933-948.