1988 Other Cucurbit Species Reports

Report No. 11 Other Cucurbit Genera and Species Pathogenicity of Erysiphe cichoracearum to cucurbits Yigal Cohen and Helena Eyal (Bar-Ilan Universtiy, Ramat-Gan, Israel) CGC 11:87-90 (1988) Salinity responses among wild cucurbits G. Anastasio, G. Palomarea, F. Nuez (Universidad Politecnica, Valencia, Spain), M.S. Catala and J. Costa (CRIA La Alberca, Murcia, Spain) CGC 11:91-92 (1988) 1987 germplasm collections […]

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1987 Germplasm Collections of Cultivated Cucurbits from China and Hong Kong

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 11:93-94 (article 39) 1988 D.S. Decker-Walters and T.W. Walters Department of Botany, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada During the last week of May and the first week of June 1987. we visited five cities (Beijing, Xi’an, Guilin, Yangshou, and Guangzhou) in the People’s Republic of China and Hong […]

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Pathogenicity of Erysiphe cichoracearum to cucurbits

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 11:87-90 (article 37) 1988 Yigal Cohen and Helena Eyal Department of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel 52100 Powdery mildew is a devastating disease of cucurbits throughout the world. The two page reported causal agents are Sphaerotheca fuliginea (Schlecht. ex Fr.) Poll. and Erysiphe cichoraceatum DC ex Merat (5,8). The […]

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Germplasm Resources of Cucurbita from Spain

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 11:86 (article 36) 1988 F. Nuez and M.J. Diez Biotechnology Department, Politechnical University of Valencia, Spain J. Costa Regional Center of Agricultural Research, C.R.I.A. La Alberca, Muria, Spain J. Cuartero Experimental Station “La Mayora: C.S.I.C. Algarrobo-Costa, Malaga, Spain This paper reports on the recent collection of 254 accessions of Cucurbita species […]

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Taxonomic Rank and Rarity of Cucurbita okeechobeensis

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 11:83-85 (article 35) 1988 Thomas C. Andres Department of Horticultural Science, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, NY 14456 Gary P. Nabhan Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N. Galvin Parkway, Phoenix, AZ Cucurbita okeechobeensis (Small) is, as the name implies, a gourd first described as endemic to the muck-laden shores and […]

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Dry Cucurbitacin-containing Baits for Controlling Adult Western Corn Rootworms, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), in Field Corn

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 11:79-82 (article 34) 1988 Levine, E., H. Oloumi-Sadeghi, R.L, Metcalf and R. Lampman Office of Agricultural Entomology and Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801 In the Diabrotica beetles and their rootworm larvae are probably the most costly insect pests of agriculture in the U.S. The combined attacks of […]

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Cucurbita Blossom Aroma and Diabrotica Rootworm Beetle Attraction

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 11:76-78 (article 33) 1988 Robert L. Metcalf and Richard L. Lampman Department of Entomology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801 Recent research has shown that many diabroticite species found on cucurbits, including the striped cucumber beetle (SCB) Acalymma vittata, the spotted cucumber beetle (SCR) D. undecimpunctata howardi, the western corn rootworm […]

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Inheritance of Resistance to Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus in the Interspecific Cross Cucurbita maxima x C. ecuadorensis

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 11:74-75 (article 32) 1988 R.W. Robinson, N.F. Weeden, and R. Provvidenti Departments of Horticultural Sciences and Plant Pathology, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, N. Y. 14456 Cucurbita ecuadorensis has been reported to be resistant or tolerant to the major cucurbit viruses, namely zucchini yellow mosaic (ZYMV), cucumber […]

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