Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:88-89 (article 26) 1994 A. Beharav and Y. Cohen Bar-Ilan University, Dept. of LIfe Sciences, Ramat Gan 52900, ISRAEL For many years, viral disease in muskmelon (Cucumis melo) (2n = 24) has been of great concern for seedsmen and growers (5). The development of resistant cultivars can eliminate the disease. Various […]
Month: July 1994
Resistance of Cucumis melo var. agrestis to Trialeurodes vaporariorum
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:86-87 (article 25) 1994 C. Soria, A.I.L. Sese, and M.L. Gomez-Guillamon Estacion Experimental “La Mayora” CSIC, 29750 Algarrobo-Costa, Malaga SPAIN Cucumis melo var. agrestis Naud. appears to have some type of inherent resistance to greenhouse whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood. This work aimed to determine the possible existence of antixenosis or antibiosis […]
Screening of Melons for Sweetpotato Whitefly Resistance: 1993
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:83-85 (article 24) 1994 James D. McCreight U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Agricultural Research Station, 1636 East Alisal Street, Salinas, CA 93905, USA Sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisa tabaci Genn., type B virtually destroyed the Fall 1991 melon crop in the lower desert valleys of Arizona and California (7). It […]
Response Reaction of Melon Genotypes Heterozygous for the Prv1 Gene to Mechanical Inoculation of PRSV-W
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:81-82 (article 23) 1994 Vitti, A.J., P.T. Della Vecchia, and R. Wierzbicki Agroflora S/A, Caixa Postal 427, 12900-000, Braganca Paulista, SP, BRAZIL In a previous study on the inheritance of Papaya Ring Spot Virus-Watermelon (PRSV-W) on melon (1) we have observed the appearing of necrotic local lesion on cotyledons of mechanically […]
Preharvest Foliar Calcium Treatments for Reduction of Postharvest Myrothecium Fruit Rot of Muskmelon
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:78-80 (article 22) 1994 J.O. Kuti and E.C. Boehm Department of Agronomy & Resource Sciences, Hort. Crops Research Lab., Texas A&M University-Kingsville, TX 78363, USA Muskmelons (Cucumis melo L.) are perishable horticultural commodity with variable storage lifes depending on the botanical variety. For example, honeydew and casaba melons (C. melo var. […]
Field Resistance to Melon Dieback in Cucumis melo L.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:76-77 (article 21) 1994 J. Esteva; F. Nuez Dpto. Ingenieria Aplicada. Universidad de Murcia. Cartagena (Murcia) SPAIN; Dpto. Biotecnologia. Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. 46022. SPAIN Melon dieback continues being a serious vine decline disease in melons grown in Spain. The latest reports of CGC (1,2,3) comment on the nature of this […]
Resistance of Cucumis melo var. agrestis against Melon-Yellowing Disease
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:74-75 (article 20) 1994 C. Soria and M.L. Gomez-Guillamon Estacion Experimental “La Mayora” CSIC, 29750 Algarrobo-Costa, Malaga SPAIN Several accessions of Cucumis melo L. with different degrees of resistance to melon yellowing disease whose causal agent is a closterovirus transmitted by Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood (1) have been selected (4). One will […]
Appearance of a Possible New Melon Yellowing Disease in Spain
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:72-73 (article 19) 1994 A.I. L. Sese, M.L. Gomez-Guillamon, J.R. Diaz-Ruiz Estacion Experimental “La Mayora” CSIC, 29750 Algarrobo-Costa, Malaga SPAIN, Centro de Investisgaciones Biologicas CSIC, Velazquez 144, 28006 Madrid, SPAIN A previously unknown melon yellowing disease associated with the presence of Bemisia tabaci (5) has been found in melon, Cucumis melo […]
Preliminary Screening of Indigenous Cultivars and a Few Known Marker Lines of Cucumis melo for Fusarium Wilt and CGMMV Resistance
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:69-71 (article 18) 1994 J. Jain and T.A. More Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi – 110012, INDIA Fusarium wilt (3,4,6) among the fungal diseases and CGMMV (4) among the viral diseases have been found to be responsible for the total eradication of the crop in Delhi […]
Races of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis Causing Wilt of Melons in Central Sudan
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:66-68 (article 17) 1994 Yousif F. Mohamed and Gasim A. Dafalla; Sadig K. Omara Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Gezira, Wad Medani, Sudan, AFRICA; Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Gezira, Wad Medani, Sudan, AFRICA Fusarium wilt of melons is a disease of […]