Dr. Kathleen Haynes

Research Plant Geneticist

Dr. Haynes breeds new and improved potato cultivars for either fresh market or processing. This includes the enhancement and improvement of potato germplasm for disease resistance (late blight, common scab, verticillium wilt, early blight and soft rot) and quality factors (specific gravity, chip color, carotenoid content, glycoalkaloid content and freedom from physiological disorders). She also develops statistical genetic models for quantitative studies involving tetraploid x diploid crosses. This research is expected to result in the release of new cultivars with enhanced nutritional content and improved levels of resistance to diseases and abiotic stresses.

Learn more about potatoes here.

Learn more about late blight here.

A picture of a potato plant's true seed. A vegetable lab picture.

Dr. Haynes and Retired Plant Pathologist Robert Goth examining potato tubers. Picture courtesy of ARS Image Gallery.

Current Projects

Project Number: 1275-21000-134-01

Genetic Improvement Of Quality And Disease Resistance In Vegetable Crops

Project Number: 1275-21000-140-00

Breeding And Enhancement Of Potatoes For Improved Disease Resistance, Quality, And Marketing

Project Number: 1275-21000-140-08

Breeding For Horizontal Resistance To Late Blight In Potatoes

Project Number: 1275-21000-140-09

Enhancing Potato Germplasm For Resistance To Disease And Processing Ability

Email
haynesk@ba.ars.usda.gov

Other information

Education

Post-Graduate Employment

Professional Societies

Collaborators

Ph.D., Plant Breeding, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 1986
M.St., Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 1985
M.S., Plant Breeding, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 1981
B.S., Biology, LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY. 1978

Post-graduate Employment

1987-Present Research, Plant Geneticist, Vegetable Laboratory, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, MD

Professional Societies

NE-107 » NE-184 » NE-1014 Regional Project

Voting Member, 1988-present
Chair, Rewrite Committee, 1996
Chair, 1995
Vice-chair, 1994
Secretary, 1993

Potato Association of America
- Finance Committee, Member, 1990-1996
- Graduate Student Awards Committee
- Breeding and Genetics Section
The American Journal of Potato Research, Associate Editor
American Society for Horticultural Science
Crop Science Society of America

Advisory Appointments

Participated in the Potato Late Blight Disease Workshop, Beltsville, MD, 1994.
Participated in the Potato Late Blight Resistance Meeting, Chicago, IL, 1994.
Participated in the Potato Late Blight Research Conference, Beltsville, MD, 1995.
Member of the Maine Potato Variety Development Committee, 1989-present.
Proposal reviewer, National Potato Council Funds, 1990-1992.
ADODR for eight specific cooperative agreements on grants with universities, 1990- present.
ADODR on an 1890 Land-Grant Cooperative Research Project, 1988-1989.
Hosted a Peace Fellowship visiting scientist from Egypt, 1989.
Served as lead cooperating scientist on a PL-ARS Project, 1993-1996
Served as a collaborating scientist on a USAID Grant in Uganda, 1993-1995.
Hosted a Visiting Scientist from the People's Republic of China, 2000-2002.
Adjunct Professor of Plant Pathology, Pennsylania State University, 2002-present.

Honors and Awards

Gamma Sigma Delta, 1980
Sigma Xi, 1986
USDA/ARS Performance Award, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002

Publications

1998 - Present

More information on these journal articles can be found using AGRICOLA at the National Agriculture Library web site. Many abstracts of the articles are online.

Christ, B.J., K.G. Haynes, and B.T. Vinyard. 2003. Inheritance of early blight resistance from 4x-2x open-pollinated 4x-2x potato hybrids. Amer. J. Potato Res. 79: 403-410.

Haynes, K.G., B.J. Christ, D.P. Weingartner, D.S. Douches, C.A. Thill, G. Secor, W.E. Fry, and D.H. Lambert. 2003. Foliar resistance to late blight in potato clones evaluated in national trials in 1997. Amer. J. Potato Res. 79: 451-457.

Abdul-Baki, A.A., J.R. Teasdale, R.W. Goth, and K.G. Haynes. 2002. Marketable yields of fresh-market tomato genotypes grown in plastic and hairy vetch mulches. Hort Science. 37: 878-881.

Sterrett, S.B., M.R. Henninger, G.C. Yencho, W. Lu, B. Vinyard, and K.G. Haynes. 2003. Stability of internal heat necrosis in tetraploid x diploid potatoes. Crop Science. 43: 790-796.

Haynes, K.G. and W. Lu. 2002. Improvement at the diploid species level. In: M.D. Razdan and A.K. Mattoo (eds). Genetic Improvement of Solanaceous Crops, Vol. 2: Potato. Science Publishers, Inc., Enfield, New Hampshire. In Press.

Lu, W., K. Haynes, E. Wiley, and B. Clevidence. 2001. Cartoenoid content and color in diploid potatoes. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 126: 722-726.

Haynes, K. G. 2001. Variance components for yield and specific gravity in a diploid potato population after two cycles of recurrent selection. Amer. J. Potato Res. 78: 69-75.

Haynes, K. G., G. A. Porter, B. J. Christ, R. W. Goth, K. O. DeLong, D. E. Halseth, J. B. Sieczka, M. R. Henninger, S. B. Sterrett, G. C. Yencho, and R. E. Webb. 2001. Amey: a multi-purpose, russet-skinned potato cultivar for the eastern United States. Amer. J. Potato Res. 78: 175-181.

Christ, B. J. and K. G. Haynes. 2001. Inheritance of resistance to early blight disease in a diploid potato population. Plant Breeding. 120: 169-172.

Henninger, M. R., S. B. Sterrett, and K. G. Haynes. 2000. Broad-sense heritability and stability of internal heat necrosis and specific gravity in tetraploid potatoes. Crop Science 40:977-984.

Haynes, K.G. 2000. Inheritance of yellow-flesh intensity in diploid potatoes. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 125:63-65.

Goth, R.W. and K.G. Haynes. 2000. Evaluation of potato clones for severity of Verticillium wilt, yield and specific gravity in Maine. Am. J. Potato Res. 77: 89-94.

Haynes, K.G. and B.J. Christ. 1999. Heritability of resistance to foliar late blight in diploid Solanum phureja x S. stenotomum hyrid potato population. Plant Breeding. 118:431-434.

Stommel, J.R., and K.G. Haynes. 1998. Inheritance of resistance to anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum coccodes in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 123:832-836.

Haynes, K.G., D.H. Lambert, B.J. Christ, D.P. Weingartner, D.S. Douches, J.E. Backlund, G. Secor, W. Fry and W. Stevenson. 1998. Phenotypic stability of resistance to late blight in potato clones evaluated at eight sites in the United States. Am. J. of Potato Research. 75:211-217

Collaborators

Steve O’Hair, University of Florida; Early-maturing red-skinned potatoes for short-day growing conditions.

Chad Hutchinson, University of Florida; Round white potatoes for short-day growing conditions.

Marion White, University of Florida; Yellow flesh potatoes for short-day growing conditions.

Craig Yencho, North Carolina State University; Early generation study for chipping varieties for mid-Atlantic states, internal heat necrosis studies.

Susan Sterrett, VPI & SU; Early generation study for chipping varieties for mid-Atlantic states , internal heat necrosis studies.

Melvin Henninger, Rutgers; Early generation study for chipping varieties for mid-Atlantic states , internal heat necrosis studies.

Barbara Christ, Penn State; National late blight and powdery scab germplasm evaluation trials, breeding for resistance to late blight, early blight, powdery scab, Fusarium dry rot and common scab.

Donald Halseth, Cornell University; chipping and fresh market potatoes for NY.

Joe Sieczka, Cornell University; chipping and fresh market potatoes for NY.

Greg Porter, University of Maine; Management profiles for new varieties.

David Lambert, University of Maine; Breeding for resistance to late blight and silver scurf.

David Kelly, Ohio Potato Growers; Fresh market potatoes.

Maine Farmers Exchange; Marketing new chipping potatoes.

NorSun; Specialty market processing potatoes.

David Douches, Michigan State University; National late blight germplasm evaluation trials.

Christian Thill, University of Minnesota; National late blight germplasm evaluation trials, potato virus evaluations.

Bill Fry, Cornell University; National late blight germplasm evaluation trials.

Pete Weingartner, University of Florida; National late blight germplasm evaluation trials, resistance to bacterial wilt and corky ringspot.

Gary Secor, North Dakota State University; National late blight germplasm evaluation trials.

Alvin Mosley, Oregon State University; National late blight germplasm evaluation trial.

Jeff Miller, Idaho; National Powdery Scab Trials.

Richard Zink, Colorado State University; National Powdery Scab Trials.

Dennis Corsini, USDA-ARS, Idaho; National Common Scab Trials.

Hector Lozoya-Saldona, PICTIPAPPA, Mexico; Late blight.

Keith Perry, Cornell University; Foundation seed of new cultivars.

Beverly Clevidence, USDA-ARS, Maryland; Carotenoids in potatoes.

Leslie Wanner, USDA-ARS, Maryland; Resistance to common scab.

Ron Morse, VPI+SU; Sustainable agricultural production of potatoes.

Aref Abdul-Baki, USDA-ARS, Maryland; Sustainable agricultural production of potatoes.

Lidia Carrera, USDA-ARS, Maryland; Sustainable agricultural production of potatoes.

Dennis Timlin, USDA-ARS, Maryland; Modeling studies on potatoes in growth chambers.

Richard Jones, USDA-ARS, Maryland; Molecular genetics of resistance to late blight and verticillium wilt.

Wenhe Lu, People's Republic of China; Diploid potato breeding.

Bill Brodie, USDA-ARS, New York; Evaluations of resistance to golden nematodes.