Inheritance Mode of Melon Fruit Characters

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 8:34-35 (Article 13) 1985 Abadia, J. Centro de Edafologia (C.S.I.C.), Murcia, Spain Gomez-Guillamon, M. L. and J. Cuartero Estacion Experimental La Mayora (C.S.I.C.), Malaga, Spain Nuez, F. Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain In 1983 we started a program to study the genetics of various characters important in melon breeding. The inheritance […]

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1985 Squash Reports

Squash and Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.) Obtention of embryos and plants from in vitro culture of unfertilized ovules of Cucurbita pepo D. Chambonnet and R. Dumas de Vaulx (France) CGC 8:66 (1985) Differential sensitivity of Cucurbita pepo cultivars to ethephon Menahem Edelstein, Harry S. Paris, Haim Nerson, Zvi Karchi and Yosef Burger (Israel) CGC 8:67-68 (1985) Rapid TLC and HPLC test For […]

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Segregation of the Determinate (de) Allele in Crosses Between Cucumis sativus L. and C. sativus var. hardwickii (R.) Alef.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 8:2-3 (Article 1) 1985 D.E. Delaney and R.L. Lower University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 In 1982, we initiated a breeding program for increasing the number of lateral branches on determinate plant types. The objective was to alter the plant architecture of current determinate lines by incorporating the multiple lateral branching […]

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Short Petiole, A Useful Seedling Marker for Genetic Studies in Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 8:7-8 (Article 3) 1985 A.P.M. den Nijs and I.W. Boukema Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding (IVT), P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands During a visit of the first author to the Ukrainian Research Institute of Vegetable Gardening in Charkov, USSR, Dr. M.C. Efimov demonstrated the use of the ‘short […]

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Optimum Heat Unit Summation Technique for Harvest Prediction of Fresh-Market and Pickling Cucumbers in North Carolina 

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 8:9-11 (Article 4) 1985 Perry, Katharine B. and Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Heat unit summation techniques have found widespread applicability for predicting stages of development for many horticultural and agronomic crops (3). Boswell (2) first documented the concept of heat summations […]

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Sources of Resistance to Viruses in Two Accessions of Cucumis sativus 

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 8:9-12 (Article 5) 1985 Provvidenti, R. Department of Plant Pathology, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456 Recently we have determined that two accessions of Cucumis sativus ‘Surinam’ and ‘TMG-1’ are valuable sources of resistance to the most common viruses affecting this species in the United States. […]

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