The Oregon Foundation Seed & Plant Materials Project (FS&PMP) is charged with maintaining, increasing, and distributing early generation planting stock of grains, grasses, legumes, potatoes, grapes, and mint to Oregon growers. Early generation seed and plant materials are released to Foundation seed programs for the production of the Foundation class...
During the 1994 growing season, 1,998 dormant wine and table grape cuttings and 2,552 mist propagated plants were distributed to 33 growers from the OSU Mother Block. Sixteen new clones were added to the Mother Block in early spring. This included rootstock, wine and table grape cultivars. The trellising system...
The introduction and evaluation of new planting material for the Oregon wine industry has been one of the top priorities of OSU and Oregon Wine Advisory Board (OWAB) for many years. The emphasis at OSU has been on two main objectives: to facilitate the introduction of new material into commercial...