The 23rd annual Northeast Potato Technology Forum was held at the Crowne Plaza Lord Beaverbrook Hotel in Fredericton, N.B. on March 16 and 17, with than 90 people from the potato research and extension community attending.
The Northeast Potato Technology Forum brings together potato specialists from northeastern North America each year to discuss potato research and promote collaboration and information exchange. There were many people there from the potato industry, federal government and provincial government from both Canada and Maine.
For this year’s event, a total of 28 oral scientific presentations were made as part of five sessions grouped by subject matter that included insects and viruses, potato pathology, breeding, genetics and nutrition and cropping systems, propagation and storage management.
The presentations were extremely diverse and represent a cross-section of potato research in the region. The wide range of topics covered at the meeting included utilizing herbicides for the control of volunteer potato plants to using gene expression-based diagnostics to assess potato crop N status.
A book of abstracts including all the presentations that were given at the meeting was handed out during the forum. For more information on the meeting or a copy of the abstracts from the meeting, visit the Northeast Potato Technology Forum website at northeastpotato.com.