WSU Potato Research Group Capabilities
In-field research:
- Economic analysis is available for any research trial
- Agronomy and cultural management
- Plant nutrition, fertilizer, foliar nutrients
- Variety trials
- Fertigation
- Chemigation
- Irrigation
- Defoliants and desiccants
- Weed control efficacy
- Insect control efficacy
- Potato diseases
Postharvest research:
- Seed aging and productivity
- Evaluation of tuber maturity
- Sprout inhibitor development and efficacy
- Physiology of wound healing
- Tuber respiration and gas exchange
- Controlled atmosphere storage
- Cold-induced sweetening
- Glucose, fructose, sucrose, starch analysis
- Senescent sweetening
- Dormancy
- Variety trials
- Evaluation of tuber processing quality
- Gene expression
Addresses and travel directions
WSU Pullman
Dept. of Horticulture
149 Johnson Hall
P.O. Box 646414
Pullman, WA 99164-6414
WSU Othello IAREC
1471 W. Cox Rd.
Othello, WA 99344