Some Relationships of Seed Production with Parthenocarpy and Relative Humidity in the Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:11-12 (article 5) 1992 Nick E. Fanourakis and Eva E. Tzifaki Technological Educational Institute, Heraklion Crete 71500 Greece, Institute of Viticulture Vegetable Crops and Floriculture, Hereklion, Crete, 71110 Greece An important advantage of the cucumber plant that makes it suitable for breeding and genetic studies is its ability to produce many […]

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Survey of Cucumber Cultivars Grown in North Carolina

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:9-10 (article 4) 1992 Jonathan R. Schultheis Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 A survey of North Carolina cucumber growers was administered via mail in January and February, 1991 for the 1990 crop of pickling and fresh-market types. The survey encompassed 15 counties, comprising over 90% […]

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Cucumber Germplasm Resources in Southwest China

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:7-8 (article 3) 1992 Si-Lin Yang Department of Horticulture, Southwest Agricultural University, CongQing, Sichuan, 60316, People’s Republic of China The majority of Chinese cucumber cultivars of the outdoor type have been grown for fresh consumption in China for well over 2000 years. Only in recent history were the greenhouse and pickling […]

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Phylogenetic Relationships Among Several African Cucumis Species: A Working Evolutionary Hypothesis

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:4-6 (article 2) 1992 J.E. Staub and L.D. Knerr Vegetable Crops Research, USDA/ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Phylogenetic models of the genus Cucumis have been constructed based on variation in morphology and geography, cucurbitacins, flavonoids, cytological studies and chromosome banding patterns, cross-compatibility, isozymes, and nuclear DNA. […]

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Evaluation of the U.S. Cucumber Germplasm Collection for Tolerance to Soil Moisture Deficit

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:1-3 (article 1) 1992 E. Van Wann U.S.D.A. Agricultural Research Service, South Central Agricultural Research Laboratory, Lane, Oklahoma 74555 One of the objectives of the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) is to evaluate and develop an automated descriptive inventory of all accessions (plant introductions) in the system. The Germplasm Resources […]

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1992 Cucumber Reports

1992 Report No. 15 Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) Evaluation of the U.S. cucumber germplasm collection for tolerance to soil moisture deficit E. Van Wann (USA) CGC 15:1-3 (1992) Phylogenetic relationships among several African Cucumis species: A working evolutionary hypothesis J.E. Staub & L.D. Knerr (USA) CGC 15:4-6 (1992) Cucumber germplasm resources in southwest China Si-Lin Yang (P.R. China) […]

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Some considerations about expression of marker genes in experiments of genetic transformation in Cucumis anguria var longipes by coculturing cotyledon explants with Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:97-101 (article 37) 1992 R. Santana, V. Moreno and L.A. Roig Plant Cell & Tissue Culture Laboratory. Biotechnology Department, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. Camino de Vera, 14. 46022-Valencia (Spain) Introduction Cucumis anguria var longipes is a wild cucurbitaceous species in which resistance to ‘yellowing virus disease’, cucumber green mottle mosaic virus, […]

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Impact of Powdery Mildew and Gummy Stem Blight on Collapse of Pumpkins (Cucurbita pepo)

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:93-96 (article 36) 1992 T. A. Zitter and M. M. Kyle Departments of Plant Pathology and Plant Breeding, Cornell University, Ithica, NYU 14853 Powdery mildew (PM) caused by Sphaerotheca fuliginea and gummy stem blight (GSB) / black rot caused by Didymella bryoniae (teleomorph) and Phoma cucurbitacearum (anamorph) are important diseases of […]

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