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["Richard Moyer" <ramoyer@gmail.com>]

Folks,

I had the privilege of working with Chad Finn several years ago, and would like to highly encourage your participation with this request for collecting native black raspberry fruit.  Chad has acres of red raspberry and blackberry and multiple other small fruit trials going on, and he has the skills, energy and infrastructure to attempt improvements of the standard black raspberry cultivars. 

 

Hope you can participate.  If you have any questions of concerns, Michael or Chad should be able to address these.

 

Having a USDA-ARS researcher of this caliber willing to improve this minor fruit is exciting.  If you are wondering why anyone would want more black raspberries, check out the work of Gary Stoner at Ohio State University, where they are using black raspberries in human trials to treat several cancers.

General info: http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/healthyforlife/2386.shtml

Technical abstracts: http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auth:Stoner,GD

 

Richard Moyer

Bristol, TN

 

 

Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:32:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dossett < phainopepla@yahoo.com>
Subject: [NAFEX] Black Raspberry Germplasm help needed
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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Hi everyone,

My name is Michael Dossett and I am currently a
graduate student at Oregon State University working
with Chad Finn.  I am in the process of setting up a
project to do for a PhD which involves a germplasm
collection for Black Raspberries (Rubus occidenatlis).
We believe the biggest problem facing breeding this
crop is lack of genetic diversity in the available
cultivars, but not neccessarily in the wild material.
The germplasm repository here in Corvallis has some
accessions of wild material but there are major gaps
in this plant's range that have not been covered by
any systematic collection effort.

I am looking for volunteers who live in areas of the
country with native Black Raspberries who would be
willing to collect fruit from wild plants and send it
to us here at the USDA later this summer.  This would
minimize the amount of time and effort that we would
need to spend in the field next year collecting fruit
to fill in the holes.  If you are interested in
learning more about this project or would be willing
to help us in the collection effort please contact me
off-list.

Thanks!

Michael Dossett
Corvallis, Oregon
Phainopepla@yahoo.com
Dossettm@hort.oregonstate.edu

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