Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:98-101 (article 34) 1991 A.A. Hassan, N.E. Quronfilah, U.A. Obaji, M.A. Al-Rays and M.S.Wafi Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, U.A.E. University, Al-Ain, U.A.E. (first authors) and Department of Agriculture and Animal Production, Al-Ain, U.A.E. (other authors). Watermelon, Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum & Nakai, is one of the most important vegetables in the […]
Month: July 1991
R309, A Selection of Citrullus colocynthis with Mutagenic Resistance to Colletyotrichum lagenarium race 2
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:92-97 (article 33) 1991 S.L. Love and B.B. Rhodes Assistant Professor, University of Idaho, Aberdeen ID 83210 and Professor, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29632, respectively Anthracnose, caused by Colletotricum lagenarium (Pass.) Ell. and Halst., is a widespread disease of cucurbits (5). It is especially destructive on watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum […]
Segregation Data Suggest Male Sterility Genes gms and ms in Watermelon Are Not in the Same Linkage Group
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:90-91 (article 32) 1991 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 29364. The gms and ms traits in watermelon have both been previously reported as the expression of single recessive nuclear genes in apparent non-allelic […]
Late Male Fertility in a Glabrous, Male-Sterile (gms) Watermelon Line
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:85-89 (article 31) 1991 B. B. Rhodes Department of Horticulture, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0375 The glabrous character can be fixed in lines heterozygous for gms (2, 3). Although Whitaker and Bemis (4) noted the possibility of using late male fertility for maintaining the gms line, no further study of this […]
Selective Methods for the Recovery of Somatic Hybrids of Cucumis melo x metuliferus and C. sativus x C. metuliferus
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:81-84 (article 30) 1991 M. Dabauza, L.A. Roig and V. Moreno Plant Cell & Tissue Culture Laboratory, Biotechnology Department, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Cno. de Vera, 14, 46020- Valencia (Spain) Introduction Methods for the isolation and culture of Cucumis metuliferus protoplasts have been previously reported by our group (18) and by […]
Plant Regeneration of Protoplasts from Different Cultivars of Melon (Cucumis melo)
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:78-80 (article 29) 1991 G.S. Bokelmann, C.I. Jarl, and A.J. Kool Zaadunie Research, Plant Biotechnology Div., P.O. Box 26, NL-1600 AA Enkuhuizen, The Netherlands Introduction Successful plant regeneration from explants of melon have been reported by a number of authors (for review see 2). Publications on plant regeneration from protoplasts still […]
Preliminary Studies on the Growth and Organogenic Response of Cotyledons derived Calli of Cucumis myriocarpus Naud
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:74-77 (article 28) 1991 R.Santana, L. A. Roig and V. Moreno Plant Cell & Tissue Culture Laboratory, Biotechnology Department, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Cno. de Vera, 14 46020-Valencia (Spain) Introduction. cucumis myriocarpus is a cucurbitaceous wild species in which resistances to Tetranychus urticae, CGMMV, powdery mildew ((PM1), and yellowing disease hve […]
Organogenic and Embryogenic Potential of Several Commercial Lines of Cucumis melo L.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:71-73 (article 27) 1991 M. Bordas, V. Moreno and L.A. Roig Plant Cell and Tissue Culture Laboratory. Department of Biotechnology. E.T.S.I.A. Universidad Politecnica. Camino de Vera 14, 46922-Valencia. Spain Introduction. Availability of efficient methods for plant regeneration of melon is required to take advantage of biotechnological alternatives for crop improvement. A […]
Interspecific Hybridization in Cucumis spp.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:69-70 (article 26) 1991 M. Chatterjee and T.A. More Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India 110012 Research work conducted in this Institute revealed that high level resistance to cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV) is not available in cultivated forms of melon (Cucumis melo L.). Nevertheless, […]
Techniques to Overcome Barrier of Interspecific Hybridization in Cucumis
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:66-68 (article 25) 1991 M. Chatterjee and T. A. More Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India 110012 Our efforts to achieve the interspecific hybrid in Cucumis species through conventional breeding procedures were unsuccessful becaue of the existence of a pre-fertilization barrier. The barrier was characterized by […]