Larimore, North Dakota 2011 Processing Potato Trials

摘要

The North Dakota State University Potato Improvement Team conducted field research trials at many locations in North Dakota and Minnesota in 2011. As in 2011, the potato research programs at NDSU will share our results with you via a series of articles in the Valley Potato Grower summarizing our findings. This first article describes the potato breeding program efforts at Hoverson Farms and agronomic traits, yield and grade, and processing quality traits for the Larimore Processing Trial can be foundin Tables 1-3. The primary objective of the NDSU potato improvement team is to identify and release superior, multi-purpose potato cultivars that are high yielding, possess multiple resistances -to diseases, insect pests, and environmental stresses, have excellent processing and/or culinary quality, and that are adapted to production in the Northern Plains. We emphasize late blight, cold-sweetening, Colorado potato beetle, pink rot and Pythium leak, sugar end, and Verticillium wilt resistance breeding.