The Reliability of a Seedling Test for Resistance to Root-Knot Nematodes in Cucurbits

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 7:92-93 (article 41) 1984 Boukema, I.W., G.T.M. Reuling and K. Hofman Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding (IVT), P.O.B. 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands A seedling test is used to screen for resistance to root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne incognita Chitw.) in cucurbits (1). The level of resistance is measured by determining the […]

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Embryo Size in Cucumis sativus x C. melo as Affected by Irradiation of the Pollen and Genotype of the Female Parent

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 7:94-95 (article 42) 1984 Custers, J.B.M. and J.H.W. Bergervoet Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands The cross Cucumis sativus x C. melo so far failed because the embryos cease their development at the globular- shaped stage (2). Embryo culture procedures suitable for non- hybrid […]

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Trisomic Identification of Linkage Groups of Cucurbita

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 7:96 (article 43) 1984 Graham, J.D., N.F. Weeden and R.W. Robinson Department of Horticultural Sciences, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, NY 14456 Bemis (1) synthesized trisomic stocks of Cucurbita, having 40 chromosomes of C. moschata and one from C. palmata. The five different trisomics we obtained from him are […]

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Monogenic Inheritance of Andromonoecy in Tetraploid Cucumis ficifolius A. Rich

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 7:100-101 (article 45) 1984 Visser, D.L. and A.P.M. den Nijs Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding (IVT), P.O.B. 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands Spontaneous fruit and seed set was observed in one out of ten plants of Cucumis ficifolius A. Rich (Genebanknumber 2061, IVT collection from Kenya), grown under isolation in […]

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Independence of Genes Ses-B and M in Cucurbita pepo L.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 7:64-65 (article 28) 1984 Bloksberg, L.N. and O. Shifriss Department of Horticulture and Forestry, Cook College, Rutgers- The State University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Gene B conditions precocious depletion of chlorophyll in fruits leading to precocious fruit yellowing. In addition, B can deplete chlorophyll in leaves at early stages of plant […]

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Potential of Restriction Endonuclease Analysis of Chloroplast DNA for the Determination of Phytogenetic Relationships among members of Cucurbitaceae

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 7:66-68 (article 29) 1984 Juvik, J.A. Department of Horticulture, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 J.D. Palmer Department of Zoology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706 A preliminary study was undertaken to determine the feasibility of using comparative restriction endonuclease analysis of chloroplast DNA as a method of accessing evolutionary relationships among […]

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Embryo Culture of Cucurbita andreana and C. martinezii

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 7:69-70 (article 30) 1984 Malter, A. B., R. J. Lebowitz, and J. A. Juvik Department of Horticulture, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801 Tissue culture may offer novel means of studying and improving Cucurbitaceae species. Cultures have already been used to analyze secondary metabolites (Yanagawa, et al., 1971), propagate gynoecious inbreds […]

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