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Perfecting the plant

更新时间:2017-12-01作者: Larry Meyer浏览:26266 返回列表

 

Malheur Experiment Station Superintendent Clint Shock stands among quinoa plants on Wednesday as he explains the breeding program being conducted at the station to get good quinoa production.

 

 

Researchers cross-breed alternative crop 

 

ONTARIO — It is not ready for prime time yet, but researchers at the Malheur Experiment Station are getting closer to their target for quinoa plants that can be grown profitably in the local area through their cross-breeding programs.

 

Research on quinoa at the station has been conducted since 2014, and early trials produced plants that were up to 6-feet tall — much too tall for harvesting.

 

The goal is to have much shorters plants, which can be more easily harvested mechanically by combine, as well as producing a lot of seed, Clint Shock, experiment station superintendent said.

 

The crew at the Experiment Station was harvesting by hand Wednesday.

 

Quinoa is a grain-like seed that is often included in soups breads, cereals or sold as whole seeds.

 

It is being looked at as a potential alternative or second crop for farmers in the valley, Shock said, which can be planted after wheat because quinoa plants do not produce seed when it is hot.

 

About 40 varieties are being tested at the Experiment Station where workers were in the process of harvesting the seed from those plants that show the desirable traits.

 

While researchers cross-breed the plants they select as having the desired traits, Shock noted that being so close together in fields, the plants cross-breed on their own. Some have good results and others show they are reverting back to undesirable traits, such as growing tall.

 

“Some hybrids grow better than original plants,” Shock said. “Most [plants] will be discarded.”

 

With tall plants, their resources are used in growing the stems rather than growing the seeds, Shock said, and he would like to see plants shorter than those produced this year.

 

Though the seed is in the research stages, Shock said, if there are farmers interested in growing the crop, they could contact him now.

 

“It doesn’t take much seed to plant an acre,” he said, and the amount of additional resources to grow the crop is low.

 

In addition, the payoff of harvesting the grain-like seed can be worth it.

 

“The crop is worth quite a bit of money,” Shock said of quinoa.

 

 

Larry Meyer is a news reporter at The Argus Observer.

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