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