Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

State Report Oregon:

Sagar Sathuvalli – 53500 single hill seedlings planted Klamath falls, 86% russets, 11% chips, and <5% specialty. Selected 569 clones from russet clones, 79 from chip crosses, and 28 clones from specialty crosses. 1044 PYT1 selections planted as 4-Hills at HAREC. 104 PYT2 selections were planted in 2 locations. Harvested 45000 seedling tubers for single hill planting at KBREC. Preselection of specialty clones done by Roy Navarre. Selected 30% of clones. Two clones are ready to be released. NYOR14Q9-5 (Chipper) and OR12133-10 (Russet) Conduct several regional field trials

1. Graduate, students are working on Powdery scab, Colombia Root Knot nematodes,

Stubby root nematodes, Diploid breeding, Mutation breeding etc.

State Report Idaho:

1. Rhett Spear – 100,000 Aberdeen seedlings tubers planted in 25 acres. 1,241 12 hill selections planted; 16 agronomic trials Johnathan conducted disease screening trials. Rodric, Rhett’s PhD student, is working on fertilizer timing. Andrew, Rhett’s master’s student, is working on water use efficiency by variety. Another grad student is looking at cut vs. whole seed piece and is finishing up soon.
2. 35 breeding clones in 2023 NFPT. 9 clones in tier 2 and 3. Rest in tier 1. 11 clones accepted for tier 2 and 3.
3. Johnathan Whitworth – Screening for PVY, PVX, leaf roll, and soft and dry rot. Trying to screen for Mop-top but is hard to find trial location because working with growers is difficult.
4. Mike Thornton – new resource working with Wisconsin project on russeting. Found a Russet Burbank with no russeting. One hill while walking a field found a reversion back to the original Burbank. After testing it was confirmed and named “White Burbank”. It will be in the gene bank at UI for 5 years

State Report: State Report-Washington

Jake Blauer: The full-size WSU Annual Potato Cultivar Yield and Post-Harvest Evaluation booklets compiled for researchers & growers. Jake Meeuwsen, Mark’s PhD student, is working on Irrigation studies. Other studies are looking at skin finishing by potassium rates, growth regulator, as well as variety trials, Jakes team looking at heat stress, starch morphology. Two new graduate students, Daphne and Olufunke, are working on heat boxes and wound healing studies. Tested 51 entries for variety trial. In January WSU hosted a cultivar workshop at the Washington Oregon Potato Conference. Many speakers and over 150 attended.  Thanked Andy Jensen at the conference. New round for NIFA grant for 2 years of funding which grew. Upcoming events June 27^th field day and seed lot reading.