Volume 52 Number 4 Article 45
Year 1998 Month 10
Title: Plant Quarantine: A Personal Experience
Author: M.M. Thompson
Abstract:
The problem of getting pome and stone
fruits through the Plant Germplasm Quarantine Office (PGQO) is not new! When I
first came to Oregon State University in
1965, my predecessor, Quentin Zielinski,
who was responsible for evaluating new
fruit cultivars, often complained about the
difficulties of importing fruit germplasm.
The questions always were - will it survive at the PGQO and if so, how long will
it take to be released? Over the past three
decades, during discussions with plant
breeders about plant introduction, I have
heard comments such as "Why bother?",
"I never try to import anything.", "Why
send it to the 'black hole' (the common
nickname for our service unit)?, and "You
may get it established at the Center but
you'll never get it out before you retire."
Overall, the reputation of this service unit
among the scientific user community has
long been dismal and disgraceful.
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