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New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 1 - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND MARKETSChapter III - Plant IndustrySubchapter A - Inspection and Sale of Seeds (Article 9, Agriculture and Markets Law)
Part 106 - Seed Potato Certification Standards For Foundation Classes
Section 106.1 - Classification and eligibility for inspection

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 1 § 106.1

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Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 53, December 31, 2024
Section 106.1 - Classification and eligibility for inspection
(a)Limited generation.

All foundation seed shall be produced in a limited generation production scheme. Seed lots are limited to a maximum of six generations of propagation, designated as follows:

ClassGeneration
FoundationG1
FoundationG2
FoundationG3
FoundationG4
FoundationG5
FoundationG6

Generation numbers increase with years of production from the original seed source. Foundation class seed shall be downgraded automatically one generation each year. The generation year for foundation class seed shall be printed on tags by the certifying agency. When disease tolerances for a seed class or generation are exceeded, seed lots shall be lowered to the next acceptable seed classification or be rejected for certification. The term Uihlein will be used to further designate the first three generations of foundation seed originating from the Uihlein Farm of Cornell University.

(b)Foundation-Uihlein Generation 1.
(1) Seed obtained directly from the Uihlein Farm of Cornell University will be eligible for planting.
(2) Grower shall enter entire potato acreage for certification as foundation and/or certified seed.
(c)Foundation-Uihlein Generation 2.
(1) Seed one year removed from the Uihlein Farm of Cornell University and meeting the requirements of Foundation-Uihlein Generation 1 will be eligible for planting.
(2) Grower shall enter entire potato acreage for certification as foundation and/or certified seed.
(d)Foundation-Uihlein Generation 3.
(1) Seed two years removed from the Uihlein Farm of Cornell University and meeting the requirements of Foundation-Uihlein Generation 1 will be eligible for planting.
(2) Grower shall enter entire potato acreage for certification as foundation and/or certified seed.
(e)Foundation-Generations 1 through 6.
(1) Seed originating from the Uihlein Farm of Cornell University and meeting the requirements for foundation or bearing foundation tags from New York, other states or Canada will be eligible for planting.
(2) All foundation seed lots originating from outside New York State must meet minimum requirements of New York Blue Tag or New York Yellow Tag grades as confirmed by State or Federal-State inspection certification.
(3) New York White Tag grade is not eligible as planting stock for recertification unless it has been inspected by the Federal-State Inspection Service.
(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.
(5) Grower shall enter entire potato acreage for certification as foundation and/or certified seed. 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 leafroll; potato spindle tuber viroid; Corynebacterium sepedonicum (causes the ring rot disease); and Erwinia carotovora (causes the soft rot and black leg diseases). Propagation of lots from the Uihlein Farm of Cornell University or equivalent sources will 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 will 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.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 1 § 106.1