Current Projects
Northwest Potato Research Consortium
Cooperative Effort of the Potato Commissions of ID, OR, & WA
Current Projects -- Growing year 2023, Commission fiscal year 2023-24
Weeds, Herbicides |
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Plant Pathology/Soil Health |
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| Jeff Miller (Miller Research) | Reduced fungicide applications for managing early blight/brown spot on disease resistant cultivars | ||||
| Jeff Miller (Miller Research), Nora Olsen (U of I Kimberly), Mike Thornton (U of I Parma) | Improved management of soft rot in the field and post-harvest | ||||
| Tim Paulitz (USDA-ARS Pullman), Cynthia Gleason (WSU Pullman), Deirdre Griffin LaHue (WSU Mount Vernon), Ken Frost (OSU Hermiston) | Comparison of potato yields, soil health, and microbiome in virgin, non-virgin, and native soils | ||||
| Kiwamu Tanaka (WSU Pullman), Roy Navarre (USDA-ARS Prosser) | Exploring germination-stimulating factors for resting spores of the powdery scab pathogen and testing their potential to diminish soil inoculum | ||||
| Ken Frost (OSU Hermiston), Brian Charlton (OSU Klamath Falls) | Developing integrated management tactics for powdery scab | ||||
| Chakradhar Mattupalli (WSU Mount Vernon), Kiwamu Tanaka (WSU Pullman) | Development of off-field methods for screening resistance to powdery scab, potato mop-top virus, and silver scurf | ||||
| Kylie Swisher Grimm (USDA-ARS Prosser) | Support for the investigation of emerging and persistent potato diseases in the Northwest | ||||
| Chakradhar Mattupalli (WSU Mount Vernon), Ken Frost (OSU Hermiston) | Understanding factors involved in the development of potato surface blemish diseases | ||||
| Steve Cullman (WSU Pullman), Deirdre Griffin LaHue (WSU Mount Vernon), Chakradhar Mattupalli (WSU Mount Vernon), Markus Kleber (OSU Corvallis), Ken Frost (OSU Hermiston) | Advancing our understanding of drivers of soil health in potato fields in the Pacific Northwest | ||||
| Ken Frost (OSU Hermsiton) | Developing a fast and accurate assay to quantify Verticillium dahliae inoculum in soils | ||||
Nematology |
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| Cynthia Gleason (WSU Pullman), Joe Kuhl (U of I Moscow), Allan Caplan (U of I Moscow) | Harnessing the natural resistance of Solanum sisymbriifolium for generating root-knot nematode resistance in potato | |
| Cynthia Gleason (WSU Pullman) | Mimicking enhanced calcium signaling for potato resistance against M. chitwoodi | |
| Cynthia Gleason (WSU Pullman), Sam Chavoshi (AgNema), Inga Zasada (USDA-ARS Corvallis) | Automated identification of plant-parasitic nematodes of potato at genus level | |
| Alan Schreiber (Agriculture Development Group) | Development of Nematicides for Pacific Northwest Potatoes | |
Potato Virus |
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| Aymeric Goyer (OSU Corvallis) | Hiding in plain sight: investigating the genetics that determine the (in-) visibility of PVY | |
| Hanu Pappu (WSU Pullman) | Developing RNA Vaccines as Bio-pesticides for Managing Potato virus Y and its strains | |
Entomology |
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| Alan Schreiber (Agriculture Development Group) | Development of Insecticides for Pacific Northwest Potatoes | |
| Stuart Reitz (OSU Ontario), Erik Wenninger (U of I Kimberly), Tim Waters (WSU Pasco), Louis Nottingham (WSU Mount Vernon) | Managing Insect Pests without Neonicotinoids, Pyrethroids and Organophosphates | |
| Rodney Cooper (USDA-ARS Wapato), Dave Horton (USDA-ARS Wapato), Tim Waters (WSU Pasco) | Identifying biological controls of insect vectors in non-crop habitats of the Columbia Basin | |
| Rodney Cooper (USDA-ARS Wapato), Gina Angelella (USDA-ARS Wapato) | RNA-based pesticides to manage insect-vectored plant pathogens in potato | |
| Gina Angelella (USDA-ARS Wapato) | Exploring alternatives to neonicotinoids for insect-vectored virus management in potatoes | |
Cropping Systems, Plant Physiology |
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| Nora Olsen (U of I Kimberly), Gustavo Teixeira (U of I Kimberly) | Exploring phytosanitary methods to obtain zero plant emergence with sprout inhibitors | |
| Aymeric Goyer (OSU Corvallis) | Can we increase potato yield by optimizing soil thiamin production? | |
| Johnny Li (U of I Moscow) | Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) based Non-Destructive Sensing of Soil Moisture and Potato Tuber Growth | |
| Nora Olsen (U of I Kimberly), Gustavo Teixeira (U of I Kimberly) | Alleviating the development of pressure bruise symptoms after unloading from bulk storage conditions | |
| Nora Olsen (U of I Kimberly), Gustavo Teixeira (U of I Kimberly) | Can wound healing be enhanced at low curing temperature conditions and maintain potato quality during storage? | |
| Roy Navarre (USDA-ARS Prosser) | Developing better methods to determine cultivar resistance to internal discoloration from heat necrosis, after-cooking darkening, blackheart and hollow heart | |
Breeding/Genetics |
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Kylie Swisher Grimm (USDA-ARS Prosser), Sagar Sathuvalli (OSU Hermiston) |
Pyramiding of Potato virus Y and Columbia Root-knot Nematode resistances using greenhouse and molecular marker screening | |
| Kylie Swisher Grimm (USDA-ARS Prosser), Sagar Sathuvalli (OSU Hermiston) | Identification of differentially expressed genes associated with corky ringspot disease resistance in Castle Russet | |
Variety Development Base Funding |
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| Rhett Spear (U of I Aberdeen), Rich Novy (USDA-ARS Aberdeen), Mike Thornton (U of I Parma), Nora Olsen (U of I Kimberly), Gustavo Teixeira (U of I Kimberly) | University of Idaho and ARS base funding for variety development | |
| Jacob Blauer (WSU Pullman), Mark Pavek (WSU Pullman) | Washington State University base funding for variety developmentJacob Blauer, Mark Pavek | |
| Sagar Sathuvalli (OSU Hermiston), Brian Charlton (OSU Klamath Falls), Clint Shock (OSU Ontario) | Oregon State University base funding for variety development | |
| Max Feldman (USDA-ARS Prosser) | USDA-ARS Prosser base funding for variety development | |
