1990 Squash and Pumpkin Reports

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)

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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