Report No. 13 Squash and Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.) Availability and use of interspecific populations involving Cucurbita moschata and C. pepo H.M. Munger (USA) CGC 13:49 (1990) Relationship between the B genes of two Cucurbita species, III. O. Shifriss (USA) CGC 13:50-54 (1990) Relationship between the B genes of two Cucurbita species, IV. O. Shifriss, R.B. Volin and T.V. Williams (USA) CGC 13:55-57 (1990)
Month: July 1990
Relationship Between the B Genes of Two Cucurbita Species, IV.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 13:55-57 (article 22) 1990 Oved Shifriss 21 Walter Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904 Raymond B. Volin and Tom V. Williams Northrup King Co., 10290 Greenway Rd., Naples, FL 33962 This report provides data on the inheritance of precocious depletion of chlorophyll in C. moschata based on the cross NJ-B x IL-B […]
Relationship Between the B Genes of Two Cucurbita Species, III.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 13:50-54 (article 21) 1990 Oved Shifriss 21 Walter Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904 The main subject of this series of reports is the relationship between the gene for precocious depletion of chlorophyll in ovaries of C. pepo and the gene for precocious depletion of chlorophyll in stems and ovaries of C. […]
Availability and Use of Interspecific Populations Involving Cucurbita moschata and C. pepo
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 13:49 (Article 20) 1990 Henry M. Munger Department of Plant Breeding, 252 Emerson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 In view of increasing interest in the transfer of traits between species of Cucurbita, it may be relevant to call attention to the existence of interspecific populations that we have maintained and […]
1990 Watermelon Reports
Report No. 13 Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) Edible seed watermelons (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai) in Northwest China X. Zhang and Y. Jiang (P.R. China) CGC 13:40-42 (1990) Nutrients in seeds of edible watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai) K. Ma, X. Zhang and M. Wang (P.R. China) CGC 13:43-44 (1990) A genetic male-sterile (ms) watermelon from China […]
Staining Procedure for Watermelon Somatic Chromosomes
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 13:47-48 (article 19) 1990 H. T. Skorupska and N. G. Allgood Dept. of Agronomy & Soils and Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634 The application of polyploidy in watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai) breeding, and the development of aneuploid stocks for future genome mapping and chromosome engineering, requires […]
Male-Sterile (ms) from China Apparently Non-Allelic to Glabrous-Male Sterile (gms) Watermelon
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 13:46 (article 18) 1990 B. A. Murdock, N. H. Ferguson and B. B. Rhodes Departments of Horticulture (1st and 3rd authors) and Agronomy (2nd author), Clemson University, Clemson SC 29634 Controlled pollinations were made in the summer of 1989 between different watermelon lines containing the single recessive genes male-sterile (ms) and […]
A Genetic Male-Sterile (ms) Watermelon from China
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 13:45-46 (article 17) 1990 Xing-ping Zhang and Ming Wang Department of Horticulture, Northwestern Agricultural University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P.R. China In 1983, Xitong Xia and his colleagues found two male-sterile watermelon plants with small, shrunken anthers and aborted pollen, from among selfed progeny of cv. Nongmi No. 100. They pollinated each […]
Nutrients in Seeds of Edible Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. and Nakai)
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 13:43-44 (article 16) 1990 Kechi Ma Department of Horticulture, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China (PRC) Xing-ping Zhang and Ming Wang Department of Horticulture, Northwestern Agricultural University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China (PRC) Although there are other processed products from the flesh of edible seed watermelons in China, the main purpose is seed production. […]
Edible Seed Watermelons (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai) in Northwest China
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 13:40-42 (article 15) 1990 Xing-ping Zhang Department of Horticulture, Northwestern Agricultural University, Yangling, Shaanxi, Peoples’ Republic of China Yi Jiang Lanzhou Horticulture School, Lanzhou, Peoples’ Republic of China Northwest China is a major production area for melons (Cucumis melo L.) and fleshy watermelons, due to the high temperatures, intensive sunlight, and […]