Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 10:7 (article 5) 1987
R. W. Robinson
Horticultural Sciences Department, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, NY 14456
The radiation-induced glabrous mutant, gl, was found by Inggamer and de Ponti (1) to be allelic to a spontaneous mutant with similar phenotype. Two additional glabrous mutants, derived from different M2 families after seed treatment with thermal neutron radiation, were crossed with gl and + plants to test for allelism. In each case, the hybrids were normal when crossed with + and glabrous when crossed with gl. Thus, two more mutations have been found to occur at the gl locus.
Literature Cited
- Inggamer, H. and 0. M. B. de Ponti. 1980. The identity of genes for glabrousness in Cucumis sativus L. Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rpt. 3:14.