Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 18:17-18 (article 8) 1995 Hongwen Cui and Mingan Yin Dept. of Horticulture, Northwestern Agricultural University, Yangling, Shannxi 712100, P.R. China Newly-harvested cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) seeds pass through a physiological process called “after-ripening” before they are sown in China (2). Newly-harvested seed have low vigor and seedling establishment is often difficult. […]
Month: July 1995
The Relationship Between Storage Time and Viability of Cucumber Seeds (Cucumis sativus L.)
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 18:16 (article 7) 1995 Huanwen Meng, Zhihui Cheng, Hongwen Cui and Engrang Zhang Department of Horticulture, Northwestern Agricultural University, Yang Ling, Saanxi 712100, P.R. China Introduction. Although it is well known that plant seeds will lose their vigor and viability during storage, there is a saying in China that the potential […]
Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Induced Mutations: A Female Sterile Mutant and An Independent Long Hypocotyl Mutant
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 18:13-15 (article 6) 1995 K. Niemirowicz-Szczytt, M. Rucinska, A. Korzeniewska and S. Malepszy Department of Genetics and Hort. Plant Breeding, Warsaw Agricultural University, SGGW, 02-766 Warsaw, Poland As with previously described mutants (2-5), the two mutants reported here belong to our collection developed by Kubicki. Mutants were obtained by ethyleneimine seed […]
Principal Component Analysis for Traits Selection in Cucumber Breeding
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 18:10-12 (article 5) 1995 Hongwen Cui, Meng Zhang, and Huanwen Meng; Junjun Deng Department of Horticulture, Northwestern Agricultural University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P.R. China; Xi’an Vegetable Research Institute, Shaanzi, 71200, P.R. China It is not easy to select for numerous traits during crop improvement (3). Principal component analysis (PCA) is a […]
Problems Associated with the Selection of Determinate Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Plant Types in a Multiple Lateral Background
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 18:7-9 (article 4) 1995 J.E. Staub, Jeff Bacher and Linda Crubaugh Vegetable Crops Research, USDA/ARS, Departments of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706 USA Introduction. To respond to the need for cultivars suitable for mechanical harvesting our breeding project is manipulating cucumber plant architecture to develop high yielding genotypes. Standard cucumber […]
Selection for Multiple Lateral Determinate Cucumber Genotypes
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 18:5-6 (article 3) 1995 J.E. Staub and L. Crubaugh Vegetable Crops Research, USDA/ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A. Introduction. Manipulation of plant architecture with concomitant adjustments in plant population density can be utilized to increase the yield potential of cucumber. Determinate plants are homozygous recessive for a […]
1995 Gene List for Watermelon
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 18:69-84 (article 33) 1995 Bill Rhodes and Xingping Zhang Horticulture Department, E 142 Poole Agriculture Center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0375 Lists of the genes of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum and Nakai) have been published previously in HortScience, 1976 (35), and in the Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Reports in 1979 (3), […]
Cucurbitaceae 94: Evaluation and Enchancement of Cucurbit Germplasm
South Padre Island, TX November 1 – 4, 1994 Poster Presentation Abstracts #1 A Database for Cucurbita Cultivars. Thomas C. Andres, Cornell University. The naming, classification, and systematics of the diverse commercial varieties of Cucurbita is in need of better organization. Popular cultivar groups, such as the vegetable marrows and zucchinis, have been split into […]
North Carolina State University Cucumber Germplasm and Cultivar Releases, 1957 to 1988
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 18:3-4 (article 2) 1995 Todd C. Wehner and Richard L. Lower Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609, North Central Regional Association of State Agricultural Experiment Station Directors, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 North Carolina State University has had a breeding program on cucumber (Cucumis Sativus […]
Production and Introduction of Cucurbit Crops in the Basin of the “Three Rivers” in Tibet, China
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 18:1-2 (article 1) 1995 Meng Zhang, Hongwen Cui and Jiangui Li Department of Horticulture, Northwestern Agricultural University, Yuangling Shaanxi, 71200, P.R. China The basin of the “Three Rivers” (the Yaluzangbu, Lhasa and Nyanchu rivers) is situated in the mid-south region of Tibet. It is the center of politics, economics, culture and […]