Texas Potato Breeding Report 2019
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Texas Potato Breeding Report 2019 The Texas A&M AgriLife Research Department of Horticultural Sciences Texas A&M University Isabel Vales, Creighton Miller, Douglas Scheuring, and Jeff Koym College Station and Lubbock J. Creighton Miller, Jr March 6, 1940 – November 3, 2019 Creighton began his career at the Lubbock Center in 1972 and started the Texas Potato Breeding and Variety Development Program from scratch. Creighton released or co-released 19 potato varieties, one mungbean, and two cowpea varieties Creighton released four highly successful, widely adapted Russet Norkotah strain selections. His last two russet releases (Reveille Russet and Vanguard Russet) continue to gain in popularity. He was a mentor to almost all in the potato research community and friend to many in the industry. His impact on the potato world will be felt for years to come. Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. iii Mission Statement ............................................................................................................................................................... 1 Impact Statement ................................................................................................................................................................ 1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................................... 2 Springlake Trials, 2019 ....................................................................................................................................................... 8 Western and Southwestern Regional Trials ................................................................................................................... 11 Western and Southwestern Regional Russet Trial, Springlake .................................................................................... 11 Western and Southwestern Regional Red Trial, Springlake ........................................................................................ 21 Western and Southwestern Regional White/Yellow Trial, Springlake ........................................................................ 28 Texas Advanced Russet Trial, Springlake ...................................................................................................................... 35 Texas Advanced Red/Specialty Trial, Springlake .......................................................................................................... 42 Texas Advanced White/Yellow Trial, Springlake .......................................................................................................... 51 2019 Dalhart Trials ........................................................................................................................................................... 58 Western and Southwestern Regional Chip Trial, Dalhart ............................................................................................ 63 Western Regional and Texas Advanced Russet Trial, Dalhart..................................................................................... 72 Western Regional Red/Specialty Trial, Dalhart ............................................................................................................. 80 Western Regional and Texas Advanced White/Yellow Trial, Dalhart ......................................................................... 87 Texas Advanced Chip Selection Trial, Dalhart .............................................................................................................. 94 2019 4 Hill Chip Selections Trial, Dalhart .................................................................................................................... 106 Texas Advanced Russet Selection Trial, Dalhart ......................................................................................................... 108 2019 4 Hill Russet Selections Trial, Dalhart ................................................................................................................. 116 Texas Advanced Red/Specialty Selection Trial, Dalhart ............................................................................................. 118 2019 4 Hill Red/Specialty Selections Trial, Dalhart ..................................................................................................... 128 Texas Advanced White/Yellow Selection Trial, Dalhart ............................................................................................. 130 2019 4 Hill White/Yellow Selections Trial, Dalhart ..................................................................................................... 137 Appendix A. General notes on potato varieties or selections- 2019 ............................................................................ 139 Appendix B. Parentage of potato varieties or selections-2019 .................................................................................... 179 Appendix C. Disposition of Clones ................................................................................................................................ 189 Index of Varieties and Clones ........................................................................................................................................ 193 i Mention of a trade name or proprietary product does not constitute a guarantee or warranty of the product by Texas A&M AgriLife Research and does not imply its approval to the exclusion of other products that also may be suitable. This publication reports research involving pesticides. It does not contain recommendations for their use, nor does it imply that the uses discussed here have been registered. Appropriate state and federal agencies must register all uses of pesticides before they can be recommended. Commercial companies are mentioned in this publication solely for providing specific information. Mention of a company does not constitute a guarantee or warranty of its products by Texas A&M AgriLife Research or an endorsement over products of other companies not mentioned. All programs, activities, information, services and facilities of Texas A&M AgriLife Research are available to everyone without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or physical or mental handicap. ii Acknowledgements This work was conducted at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Lubbock, the Department of Horticultural Sciences, College Station, and at field sites Springlake, Dalhart, and Weslaco. Financial support for this work was partially provided by the Texas A&M AgriLife Research, USDA/NIFA Special Research Grants Program- Potato Research (Agreement # 2017-34141-27336), Potatoes USA, USDA/SCRI, T3 AgriLife, and Vegetable Strategic Initiative, Texas Vegetable Seed Grant. Bruce Barrett, Springlake Potato Sales, donated ten acres for growth of first year seedlings and advanced selections/variety trials near Springlake. Milt Carter, CSS Farms, donated seven acres for growth of first year seedlings and advanced selections/variety trials near Dalhart. Texas Cooperators: Luis Cisneros-Zevallos, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Terry Wheeler, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Lubbock, Texas Russell Wallace, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, Lubbock, Texas Ismael Badillo, Thiago Marconi, Kranthi Maudadi, Jorge da Silva and Adrian Silva, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Weslaco, Texas Charlie Rush and Fekede Workneh, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Amarillo, Texas Cecilia Tamboringuy, Jeanmarie Verchot, Keerti Rathore, Oscar Riera-Lizarazu, Julien Levy, and Betsy Pierson, Texas AgriLife Research, College Station, Texas Vijay Joshi, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Uvalde, Texas AgriGenomics Lab, Soil and Forage Testing Lab, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Western Regional Cooperators: Rob Wilson, Kevin Nicholson, and Darrin Culp, Tulelake, California David Holm, Caroline Grey, Katie Gaudreau, Sastry Jayanty, and Samuel Essah, Center, Colorado Rich Novy, Jonathan Whitworth, and Brian Schneider, Aberdeen, Idaho Jeff Stark, Chelsey Lowder, University of Idaho, Aberdeen, Idaho Brain Charlton, Klamath Falls, Oregon Clint Shock, Malheur, Oregon Rick Knowles and Mark Pavek, Pullman, Washington Max Felsman and Roy Navarre, Prosser, Washington Southwestern Regional Cooperators: Jaspreet Sidhu, Joe Nunez, and Jed DuBose, Bakersfield, California iii Rob Wilson, Kevin Nicholson, and Darrin Culp, Tulelake, California David Holm, Caroline Grey, Katie Goudreau, and Samuel Essah, Center, Colorado NCPT Cooperators: Rich Novy, Brian Schneider, and Jonathan Whitworth, USDA-ARS, Aberdeen, Idaho David Holm, Carolyn Keller, Caroline Grey, Katie Gaudreau , Sastry Jayanty, Samuel Essah, and Andrew Houser, Colorado State University, San Luis Valley Research Center, Center, Colorado Susie Thompson, Gary A. Secor, and Neil Gudmestad, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota Sagar Sathuvalli and Solomon Yilma, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Shelley Jansky and Andy Hamernik, USDA-ARS, Madison, Wisconsin Darrin Haagenson, USDA-ARS, East Grand Forks, Minnesota Laura Shannon, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota David Douches, Joseph Coombs, Chris Long, Trina Zavislan, and Willie Kirk, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Craig Yencho and Mark Clough, North Carolina State University, Raleigh,