Farming, Saturday, October 30, 1999
GENEVA, N.Y. Cornell
University’s 7th Annual Process
ing Sweet Com and Snap Bean
Field Day was Aug. 17 here at the
New York State Agricultural Ex
periment Station’s Vegetable Re
search Farm.
Guests came Bom the Northeast
and Canada, and as far as away as
Alabama and Idaho. Twenty-nine
USDA Protects 34
New Plant
WASHINGTON, D.C. The
USDA has issued certificates of
protection to developers of 34 new
varieties of seed-reproduced
plants.
They include alfalfa, bean,
chickpea, corn, lettuce, pepper,
annual ryegrass, red fescue, peren
nial ryegrass, tall fescue, soybean,
vinca, watermelon, and wheat
The 34 certificates are being
issued under the amended Plant
Variety Protection Act. The
amendments extend protection to
FI hybrids and tuber-propagated
varieties and require that all pro
tected varieties be sold by variety
name. The certificates require not
only that the varieties be new, uni
form, and stable, as in the original
act, but also that they be distinct.
The owners will have the exclusive
right to reproduce, sell, import,
and export their products in the
United States for 20 years.
The 34 certificates arc:
• The DKI27 variety of alfalfa,
developed by Dekalb Genetics
Corporation, Dekalb, HI.
• The Nugget variety of bean,
developed by Harris Moran Seed
Company, Modesto, Calif.
• The Apache variety of bean,
developed tty Idaho Seed Bean
Company, Twin Falls, Idaho.
• The Stan variety of chickpea,
developed by Conagra Inc., Davis,
Calif.
•The PHWTI, PH63B,
PH67A, PHBOB, PHFW4, and
PH3BB varieties of com, deve
loped by Pioneer Hi-Bred Interna
tional, Inc., Johnston, lowa.
• The Early Queen and Mid
Queen varieties of lettuce, deve
loped by Paragon Seed, Inc., Sali
nas, Calif.
• The Diamond variety of Let
tuce, developed by Coastal Seed,
Inc., Salinas, Calif.
• The DMC 58-218 variety of
pepper, developed by Del Monte
Corporation, San Francisco, Calif.
• The Taurus variety of pepper,
developed by Novartis Seed, Inc.,
Boise, Idaho.
• The Grazer variety of annual
ryegrass, developed by United
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Attendance High At Cornell's Field Day
guests representing the Ontario
Growers Marketing Board came
by motor coach from Ontario.
TTiere were seven seed company
representatives, five vegetable
processing representatives, and
one bean broker from Delaware.
Also joining the field day were
several local agri-business repre
sentatives and a few New York
State growers, including BUI Har-
Varieties
States Department of Agriculture,
Agricultural Research Service,
Tifton, Ga.
• The SR 4300 variety of peren
nial ryegrass, developed by Seed
Research of Oregon, Inc., Corval
lis, Ore.
•The Wind Star variety of
perennial ryegrass, developed by
Pure-Seed Testing, Inc., Hubbard,
Ore.
• The Nobility variety of peren
nial ryegrass, developed by
Ampac Seed Co., Brownsville,
Ore.
• The 2CB and Shademaster II
varieties of perennial ryegrass,
developed by Pure-Seed Testing,
Inc., Hubbard, Ore.
•The Muscn variety of soy
bean, developed by South Carolina
Agriculture and Forestry Research
System, Clemsoo, S.C.
• The Hartz Variety H 6255 var
iety of soybean, developed by
Jacob Hartz Seeds Co., Inc., Stut
tgart, Ariz.
• The 9254,9611 and 9255 var
ieties of soybean, developed by
Pioneer Hi-Bred International,
Inc., Johnston, lowa.
•The AG 1901, AG2IOI and
A 4922 varieties of soybean, deve
loped by Asgtow Seed Company,
Kalamazoo, Mich.
•The Lancer variety of tall
fescue, developed by Picksccd
West Inc., Tangent, Ore.
• The Pacifica Red variety of
vinca, developed by Waller
Flowetseed Company, Guadalupe,
Calif.
• The W-9809 variety of water
melon, developed tty Abbott &
Cobb, Inc., Feastervilk, Pa.
• The Solomon variety of
wheat, developed fay HybriTech
Seed International, a unit of Mon
santo Co., Berthoud, Colo.; and the
Nora variety of wheat, developed
by Jose Buck S.A., Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
USDA’s Agricultural Market
ing Service administers die olanf
variety protection program, which
provides marketing protection to
developers of new and distinct
seed-reproduced and tuber
propagated plants ranging from
farm crops to flowers.
ris, an active member of the Pro
cessing Sweet Com Research As
sociation.
Seven Cornell Cooperative Ex
tension Agents attended from as
far away as Wyoming County.
Twenty Cornell faculty and staff
from the Ithaca and Geneva cam
puses attended to speak and sup
port the field day activities, contri
buting to the day’s success.
Steve Reiners, associate profes
sor of horticultural sciences, acted
as emcee. He welcomed the more
thn 100 people present and intro
duced each speaker.
Thomas Bjorkman, associate
professor of horticultural sciences,
Geneva, started the snap bean dis
cussions with a presentation about
solving the leftover phosphorous
problem using ammonium and
sodium bicarbonate release
agents. Bjorkman and Reiners had
acquired funding from the USDA
for a two-year study.
Their presentation was follow
ed by Alan Taylor, professor of
horticultural sciences, Geneva,
who spoke on seed aging and the
effect of cold storage, presenting
emergence data on seed quality
declination and yield declination.
He addressed cold/stress tests and
seed lab work on germination and
the development of current eco
nomic information for the grow
ers.
George Abawi, professor of
plant pathology, Geneva, spoke on
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and described his fungicide seed
treatment trials along with in
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Robin Bellinder, professor of
fruit and vegetable sciences, Itha
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EPA rejection of Reflex. “There
will soon be a complete registra
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will help increase the number of
tools in the toolbox for the grow
ers.
Finally, research support spe
cialist Jim Ballerstein, Geneva,
led a walking tour of the snap bean
trials and described the sieve size,
yield, and quality data fur each
variety of snap beans. There woe
some excellent conversations
among Ballerstein and seed spe
cialists as they went through each
variety. Cans of processed snap
beans woe displayed on a table
near the field trial for a closer in
spection of the finished product
Margaret Smith, associate pro
fessor of plant breeding, Ithaca,
started off the sweet com trial por
tion of the afternoon. Smith spe
cializes in field com but has been
able to transfer useful information
to sweet com programs that deal
specifically with pest problems
and leaf blight. She spdke about
the European Com Borer (ECB)
resistance program at her field tri
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and the genetic work to develop a
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Mike Hoffman, associate pro
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Fred Musser, graduate student
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and, in turn, their effect on the
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of processed sweet com were also
on display near the field trials for a
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product
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