Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:53-54 (article 19) 1991 Henry M. Munger Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell University, Ithica, N.Y. 14853 When melon breeders and pathologists met in 1986 and 1987, there was general agreement that, although some watermelon mosaic resistance (WMR) in melons had been suggested by the work of Moyer et al. (2), high […]
Month: July 1991
Potential Sources of Resistance to Lettuce Infectious Yellows in Melon
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:51-52 (article 18) 1991 James D. McCreight U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Agricultural Research Station, 1636 East Alisal Street, Salinas, CA 93905 Lettuce infectious yellows (LIY) is a sweetpotato whitefly, Bemesia tabaci (Genn.), transmitted virus disease that occurs in the lower deserts of California, Arizona, and Mexico (1). Foliar symptoms […]
Resistance to Acremonium sp. in Spanish Landraces of Melon
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:49-50 (article 17) 1991 J. Garcia-Jimenes, A. Alfaro, J. Esteva, F. Nuez and M. T. Velazquez Dpto. Produccion Vegetal. Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain (first and second author); Dpto. Biotecnologia, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain (third and fourth author); Generaltat Valenciana, STT, Moncada, Valencia, Spain (fifth author) Melon dieback is a […]
A Rapid and Sensitive Method for Evaluation of Melon Resistance to Sphaerotheca fuliginea
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:46-48 (article 16) 1991 Elena Floris and Jose Ma Alvarez Servicio de Investigacion Agraria – D.G.A. Apartado 727, 50080, Zaragoza, Spain When studying the inheritance of the resistance against Sphaerotheca fuliginea, the causal agent of powdery milder in melon (Cucumis melo L.), one of the difficulties is the lack of a satisfactory, quantitative, […]
Two Virescent Mutants in Melon (Cucumis melo)
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:45 (article 15) 1991 M. Pitrat, G. Risser, C. Ferriere, C. Olivier, and M. Ricard Station d’ Amelioration des Plantes Maraicheres, I.N.R.A., BP 94 , 84143 Montfavet Cedex, France In the course of breeding programs at the Vegetable Breeding Station of Avignon-Montfavet, two natural occurring virescent mutants have been observed. The […]
Nomenclature of Cucumis melo L.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:43-44 (article 14) 1991 H. M. Munger and R. W. Robinson Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 (first author); Department of Horticultural Sciences, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, N.Y 14456 (second author) The Common Name of Cucumis melo L. The question has arisen recently as to whether the […]
1991 Squash Reports
CGC Report 14 Squash and Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.) Fused vein trait in Cucurbita pepo L. R. Bruce Carle and J. Brent Loy (USA) CGC 14:111-112 (1991) Expression of the B genes in Cucurbita Oved Shifriss (USA) CGC 14:113-115 (1991) The two B genes of Cucurbita are unlinked Oved Shifriss (USA) CGC 14:116-122 (1991) Resistance to papaya ringspot virus-W, zucchini yellow mosaic virus, and watermelon mosaic […]
1991 Watermelon Reports
Report 14 Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) Late male fertility in a glabrous, male-sterile (gms) watermelon line B.B. Rhodes (USA) CGC 14:85-89 (1991) Segregation data suggest male sterility genes gms and ms in watermelon are not in the same linkage group B.A. Murdock, N.H. Ferguson and B.B. Rhodes (USA) CGC 14:90-91 (1991) R309, a selection of Citrullus colocynthis with multigenic resistance to Colletotrichum lagenarium race […]
1991 Gene List for Watermelon
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:129-137 (article 44) 1991 Warren R. Henderson Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 A list of the genes of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum and Nakai) was initially published in 1976 (30); lists of supplementary genes were published in 1979 (3) and 1982 (4). In 1985, […]