Location: Horticultural Crops Production and Genetic Improvement Research Unit
Project Number: 2072-21000-060-001-S
Project Type: Non-Assistance Cooperative Agreement
Start Date: Aug 1, 2019
End Date: Jul 31, 2024
Objective:
Develop processing red raspberry cultivars that are adapted to the Pacific Northwest (PNW) that are machine harvestable. Additional traits to incorporate into new cultivars are raspberry bushy dwarf virus (RBDV) resistance and root rot
tolerance. Develop strawberry cultivars that are adapted to the PNW and that have higher picking efficiency than current industry standards. Additional traits to incorporate into new cultivars are: fruit firmness and disease resistance.
Approach:
The principle breeding system used in the raspberry program will be recurrent mass selection in which the best individuals of each generation are intercrossed to form the next generation for selection. A recurrent mass selection system will be followed; the best individuals selected in each generation will be intercrossed to produce the next generation. Additional cultivars and selections from other programs will be added to the breeding population at any stage.
