SCRI-Acrylamide

ID, ME, MN, and WA had agreed to grow one or two advanced clones from NFPT for the 2014 SCRI fertility trials. Up to five Nitrogen application rates will be tested in commercial scales for each clone and investigate which…

Trial coordinators and industrial advisory committee have made the decision about clone selection of the 2014 National Fry Processor Trial (NFPT) and seed shipping started on March 11th. There will be 68 clones, 37 of which are new, 29 are returning,…

A conference call was held on Mon (March 3rd) to discuss and finalize plans for the 2014 SCRI Agronomic Trials. Agreement was achieved by the trial coordinators about clone selection and trial protocol for the coming season. Totally 9 clones…

SCRI_Acryl advisory committee meeting was held on Wed (Jan 8th) at the 2014 Potato Expo in San Antonio, TX. Around 30 growers/processors attended the chip session meeting, and around 15 researchers/processors attended the fry session meeting. Agreement was achieved that…

Dr. Yi Wang sent out a request on clone selection for 2014 SCRI agronomic trials, minituber production and tissue culture clean up. Request was sent to both breeders and processors. Some data collected from the 2013 NFPT/SCRI Agronomic trials was…

The 2013 Annual Meeting of US Potato Board National Chip Program was held at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel in Chicago on Dec 10th and 11th. An update on the SCRI Acrylamide program was given to the audience including academia…

Acrylamide, a chemical that can form in some foods during certain types of high-temperature cooking – The FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is seeking public comments on a ” … draft guidance for the food industry to…

David Parish distributed the agenda for meeting at the JR Simplot R&D facility on Dec 17th about QSR tests of NFPT/SCRI.

On November 5th, groups of Dr. Mike Thorton, Dr. Nora Olsen, and Dr. Tina Brandt finished and reported their data file on the harvested 2013 SCRI agronomic trials conducted at Parma, ID.

************************************************************************** Title: Research Associate (Postdoctoral) Department: Horticulture, University of Wisconsin–Madison Salary: $40,000 minimum Contacts: A.J. Bussan, Ph.D. Dept. Horticulture, UW-Madison Ph: 608-262-3519 Email: ajbussan@wisc.edu Jeffrey Endelman, Ph.D. Dept. Horticulture, UW-Madison Ph: 608-250-0754 Email: endelman@wisc.edu Duties: Funding is from a USDA-NIFA…

Meeting notes taken at the East Grand Forks NFPT/SCRI meeting were distributed to the group. David Parish took the notes and AJ Bussan made comments. An important point was made that an executive sub-committee should be formed to facilitate the…

The 2013 NFPT/SCRI field day was successfully held in the Northern Plains Potato Growers Association building on Oct 8th and 9th at East Grand Forks, MN. Twenty-four people attended the meeting, including researchers, breeders, processing industry representatives, and grower association…

By Oct 2nd, all the five trial sites of 2013 NFPT (ID, ND, WA, WI, and ME) have finished their harvesting and grading. Tubers from each site were shipped to the USDA research facility at East Grand Forks, MN for fry color…

SCRI Agronomic trials at WA, lead by Dr. Mark Pavek, was havested and graded on Sep 30th. As Dr. Pavek reported, some clones were highly infested by nematodes although fumigation was applied.

Tubers of the SCRI agronomic trial at OR, lead by Dr. Sagar Sathuvalli, was harvested on Sep 25th and graded on Sep 27th.