New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS › Chapter III - Plant Industry › Subchapter A - Inspection and Sale of Seeds (Article 9, Agriculture and Markets Law) › Part 107 - Seed Potato Certification Standards For Certified Classes › Section 107.2 - Classification and eligibility for inspection

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
Limited generation.
All certified seed shall be produced in a limited
					 generation production scheme. Seed lots are limited to a maximum of six
					 generations of propagation as follows:
Class
Generation
Certified
G1
Certified
G2
Certified
G3
Certified
G4
Certified
G5
Certified
G6
Generation numbers shall increase with years of production
					 from the original seed source. Certified class seed shall be downgraded
					 automatically one generation each year. The generation year for certified class
					 seed shall be printed on tags by the certifying agency. When disease tolerances
					 for certified class seed lots are exceeded, the lots shall be rejected for
					 certification. Seed lots shall originate from in vitro culture in which all
					 plantlets have tested free from potato viruses A, M, S, X, Y, (all may cause
					 the mosaic disease) and leaf roll; Potato Spindle tuber viroid; Corynebacterium
					 sepedonicum (causes the ring rot disease); and Erwinia carotovora (causes the
					 soft rot and black leg diseases). Propagation of seed lots from the Uihlein
					 Farm at Cornell University or equivalent sources shall be limited to six years
					 with a Generation 5 (G5) lot originating from outside New York State being the
					 last generation eligible for planting. A three year exemption shall be
					 permitted at the discretion of the certifying agency for numbered selections
					 from breeding programs or for named varieties for which pathogen-tested seed
					 lots do not exist or are not available.
(b)
Certified-Uihlein Generation
				  1.
Seed obtained directly from the Uihlein Farm of Cornell
					 University will be eligible for planting.
(c)
Certified-Uihlein Generation
				  2.
Seed one year removed from the Uihlein Farm of Cornell
					 University and showing a performance in a winter test acceptable to the
					 certifying agency will be eligible for planting.
(d)
Certified-Uihlein Generation
				  3.
Seed two years removed from the Uihlein Farm of Cornell
					 University and showing a performance in a winter test acceptable to the
					 certifying agency will be eligible for planting.
(e)
Certified-Generations 1 through
				  6.
(1) foundation class seed meeting
				  New York blue tag or yellow tag grade requirements originating from New York,
				  other states or Canada; or
(2)
				  certified class seed meeting New York blue tag or yellow tag grade requirements
				  originating from New York, other states or Canada as evidenced by an inspection
				  performed by the State or Federal-State Inspection Service, that have passed a
				  winter test acceptable to the certifying agency; or
(3) New York certified or foundation seed
				  meeting New York white tag grade requirements as evidenced by an inspection
				  performed by the State or Federal-State Inspection Service, that have passed a
				  winter test acceptable to the certifying agency; or
(4) potatoes planted by New York certified
				  seed growers utilizing planting stocks of their own production that are direct
				  progeny from eligible planting stocks and have passed a winter test acceptable
				  to the certifying agency shall be eligible for planting.