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 glabrous-male sterile (gms). F1 plants grown in the greenhouse in winter of 1989-90 revealed no segregation for sterility in genotypes [(ms ms) x (Gms gms)] and [(gms gms) x (Ms ms)]. These data suggest that ms and gms are non-allelic.