University of Idaho to expand nuclear potato seed program
The planned investments - which include construction of a new greenhouse and laboratory - would move the university toward its long-term goal of becoming a national repository for potato germplasm.
Jenny Durrin filled the director position vacated when Lorie Ewing retired last July. She conducted research in potato virus Y resistance in common Idaho cultivars while obtaining her master’s degree in plant science under UI virologist Alex Karasev, and she spent two years studying pale cyst nematode at the university.
Mark McGuire, director of the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, hopes the greenhouse will be complete by mid-summer in order to produce a fall crop. He said the program currently can’t keep up with orders.
source: potatopro.com
