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Title: CHINOOK RED RASPBERRY

Author
item Finn, Chad
item LAWRENCE, F - USDA-ARS, RETIRED
item YORGEY, B - OSU-FOOD SCS
item STRIK, B - OSU-DEPT OF HORT

Submitted to: HortScience
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 4/23/2003
Publication Date: 4/1/2004
Citation: Finn, C.E., Lawrence, F.J., Yorgey, B., Strik, B.C. 'Chinook' red raspberry. Hortscience. 2004. 39 p. 444-445

Interpretive Summary: 'Chinook' is a new fall-fruiting (primocane-fruiting) red raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) from the USDA-ARS breeding program in Corvallis, Ore. released in cooperation with the Oregon State Agricultural Experiment Station, the Washington Agricultural Research Center and the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station. 'Chinook' is high yielding, early-ripening for a primocane cultivar, and produces large, very firm fruit that ship extremely well. The cultivar should be widely adapted to wherever primocane fruiting raspberries are grown and provide growers with an early-season alternative to 'Autumn Bliss'. 'Chinook' is named after the salmon of the same name (Oncorhynchus tshawyscha Walbaum) that in turn was named after the Chinook Indian tribe that lived(s) along the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest.

Technical Abstract: 'Chinook' is a new primocane fruiting red raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture- Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) breeding program in Corvallis, Ore. released in cooperation with the Oregon State Agricultural Experiment Station, the Washington State University Agricultural Research Center and the Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station. 'Chinook' is high yielding, early-ripening for a primocane cultivar, and produces large, very firm fruit that ship extremely well. The cultivar should be widely adapted to wherever primocane fruiting raspberries are grown and provide growers with an early-season alternative to 'Autumn Bliss'. 'Chinook' was selected in 1976 from a cross between ORUS 1838 and ORUS 1842 and has been tested as ORUS 534-10; it is a full sib to 'Summit'. The pedigree represents a mix of northeast (New Hampshire and New York) and northwest (Washington and Oregon) U.S.A. breeding material. The outstanding characteristics of 'Chinook' are its very early production of a primocane crop with excellent fruit firmness and shipping quality, and very good overall quality. It is expected to do well wherever primocane fruiting cultivars are grown and is recommended primarily for fresh market production.