Due to budget constraints and changes in overall potato program operations, the Oregon Foundation Potato Seed Program will no longer be producing certified minitubers or tissue culture plantlets.
The University of Idaho Potato Tissue Culture Lab will take over these responsibilities for potato growers in the region. The Idaho Lab has many years of experience in producing high quality potato planting stocks. The Lab has Tri-state released varieties and many commercial varieties available to order. A list of available materials is linked below. The same licensing and MTA requirements that have been in effect for Oregon will be in place for material ordered from Idaho.
Lorie Ewing, manager of the Idaho Potato Tissue Culture Lab, can be contacted at:
Lorie Ewing, Manager
Potato Tissue Culture Lab
Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences
University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho 83843-2339
(phone) 208.885.6663; (fax) 208.885.7760
email: lewing@uidaho.edu
If you have any question about this program change, please contact:
Russ Karow, Department Head
541-737-2821
email: russell.s.karow@oregonstate.edu
We appreciate your past and current strong support of our Oregon and Tristate potato variety development programs and look forward to continued interaction with you on variety development work.