Chad Finn

Courtesy Appointment, Research Geneticist & Small Fruit Breeder
chad.finn [at] oregonstate.edu

Office: 541-738-4037

Our research program has three primary objectives:

  • to develop blackberry, red and black raspberry, strawberry, and blueberry cultivars for the commercial small fruit industry.
  • to expand germplasm available to plant breeders by collecting wild species of Rubus, Vaccinium and Fragaria. This material is then evaluated and incorporated into advanced breeding material.
  • identification and evaluation of potential new small fruit crops.

Active in all stages of berry breeding from parental selection through cultivar release. Program has released over three dozen berry cultivars that are grown around the world.

Collected and evaluated many species from around the world particularly China, Andean S. America, and the US for their usefulness as breeding material.

Curriculum Vitae: 
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At OSU
Affiliated with: 
Horticulture
Career Links: 
Department of Horticulture
USDA-ARS Small Fruit Breeding Program (Finn)
Do you accept grad students?: 
I accept graduate students for Horticulture
Courses Taught: 
  • Co-teach HORT 251
  • Guest lecture in horticulture and plant breeding courses
Beyond OSU
Personal Links: 
USDA-ARS Small Fruit Breeding Program
Personal Interests: 

My spouse and I are passionate horticulturists at home as well as professionally and cannot drive by a good nursery without stopping. While no desire to live there, we cannot get enough of camping and hiking in southern Utah and Four Corners area.

My Publications

2018

Journal Article

P. P. Moore, Finn, C. E., and Dossett, M., “Register of New Fruit and Nut Cultivars List 49: Raspberry”, HortScience, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 770-771, 2018.
J. D. Zurn, Carter, K. A., Yin, M. H., Worthington, M., Clark, J. R., Finn, C. E., and Bassil, N., “Validating Blackberry Seedling Pedigrees and Developing an Improved Multiplexed Microsatellite Fingerprinting Set”, Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, vol. 143, no. 5, pp. 381 - 390, 2018.
C. E. Finn, Strik, B. C., Yorgey, B. M., Peterson, M. E., Jones, P. A., Lee, J., and Martin, R. R., “‘Columbia Giant’ Thornless Trailing Blackberry”, HortScience, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 251 - 255, 2018.
C. E. Finn, Strik, B. C., Yorgey, B. M., Peterson, M. E., Jones, P. A., and Martin, R. R., “‘Columbia Sunrise’ Thornless Trailing Blackberry”, HortScience, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 256 - 260, 2018.
C. E. Finn, Strik, B. C., Peterson, M. E., Yorgey, B. M., Moore, P. P., Jones, P. A., Lee, J., and Martin, R. R., “‘Kokanee’ Primocane-fruiting Red Raspberry”, HortScience, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 380 - 383, 2018.
C. E. Finn, Strik, B. C., Yorgey, B. M., Mackey, T. A., Moore, P. P., Dossett, M., Jones, P. A., Lee, J., Martin, R. R., Ivors, K. L., and Jamieson, A. R., “‘Marys Peak’ Strawberry”, HortScience, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 395 - 400, 2018.
J. R. Clark, Salgado, A., Draper, A., Finn, C. E., Sandefur, P., and Boches, P., “‘Norman’ Southern Highbush Blueberry”, HortScience, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 737 - 740, 2018.

2017

Journal Article

S. Verma, Zurn, J. D., Salinas, N. R., Mathey, M. M., Denoyes, B., Hancock, J. F., Finn, C. E., Bassil, N. V., and Whitaker, V. M., “Clarifying sub-genomic positions of QTLs for flowering habit and fruit quality in U.S. strawberry (Fragaria×ananassa) breeding populations using pedigree-based QTL analysis”, Horticulture Research, vol. 4115159152986764671692421791242012336358837346414675127209127708166736676510314323535679321431025291412956101315917721, p. 17062, 2017.
M. M. Mathey, Mookerjee, S., Mahoney, L. L., ündüz, K., Rosyara, U., Hancock, J. F., Stewart, P. J., Whitaker, V. M., Bassil, N. V., Davis, T. M., and Finn, C. E., “Genotype by environment interactions and combining ability for strawberry families grown in diverse environments”, Euphytica, vol. 213708697186859242471367344438515912733, no. 5, 2017.
C. E. Finn, Mackey, T. A., Postman, J. D., and Martin, R. R., “Identifying blueberry germplasm that is slow to get Blueberry shock virus in the Pacific Northwest United States”, Acta Horticulturae, no. 1180, pp. 423 - 430, 2017.

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