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 […]
Month: July 1985
1985 Gene List for Cucumber
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 8:86-96 (Article 34) 1985 Lists of the known genes for the Cucurbitaceae have been published previously in 3 installments (16, 17, 49). However, in the interest of updating and collecting the information on cucumber in one place, following is a complete list of the 88 known genes for Cucumis sativus L. […]
1985 Other Cucurbit Genera and Species
Other Genera and Species Use of Cucumis anguria as a vegetable in Brazil C.D. da Costa (Brazil) CGC 8:81 (1985) Resistance to acute gamma irradiation of pollen of Cucumis species A.P.M. den Nijs, C.J.M. Denissen and M.A.P.F. Hornes (The Netherlands) CGC 8:82-84 (1985)
1985 Watermelon Reports
Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) A preliminary report on screening watermelon for sensitivity to ozone and sulfur dioxide Gwen Eason and R.A. Reinert (USA) CGC 8:59-61 (1985) Interaction of commercial watermelon cultivars with regional isolates of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum G.A.W. Nepa, B. B. Rhodes and W. W. Wallace (USA) CGC 8:62-64 (1985)
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 […]
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 […]
Near-Isogenic Lines of Several Cucumber Varieties
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 8:4-6 (Article 2) 1985 Henry M. Munger Cornell University, 410 Bradfield Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 In over 40 years of cucumber breeding at Cornell, a number of near-isogenic lines have been bred by the backcross method. A few have been released as varieties and the rest as germplasm, but not all […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]