Crop Loss to Eight Diseases of Watermelon in North Carolina

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 22:47-49 (article 17) 1999 Nischit V. Shetty and Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 The Department of Plant Pathology at North Carolina State University set up a disease loss committee in 1978 for crops grown in North Carolina, in response to inquiries made […]

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Preparation of Nuclei from in vitro Watermelon Shoot Tissue for Cell Flow Cytometry

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 22:43-46 (article 16) 1999 Ying Li School of Plant, Statistical and Ecological Sciences, 111 Poole Agricultural Center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634 John F. Whitesides School of Animal & Veterinary Sciences, C123 Poole Agricultural Center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634 Bill Rhodes School of Plant, Statistical and Ecological Sciences, 111 Poole […]

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An Improved Procedure for Isolation of High Quality DNA from Watermelon and Melon Leaves

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 22:41-42 (article 15) 1999 Amnon Levi and Claude Thomas U.S. Vegetable Laboratory, USDA, ARS, 2875 Savannah Highway, Charleston, South Carolina 29414 Our previous experiments in isolating DNA from watermelon leaves using the basic cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) procedure (Saghi Maroof et al., 1984; Rogers and Bendich, 1985; Doyle and Doyle, 1987) resulted […]

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In vitro Generation of Tetraploid Watermelon with Two Dinitroanilines and Colchicine

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 22:38-40 (article 14) 1999 Ying Li School of Plant, Statistical and Ecological Sciences, 111 Poole Agricultural Center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634 John F. Whitesides School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, C123 Poole Agricultural Center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634 Bill Rhodes School of Plant, Statistical and Ecological Sciences, 111 Poole […]

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Triploid and Tetraploid Watermelon ( Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. and Nakai) Seed Size and Weight

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 22:34-37 (article 13) 1999 Marietta Loehrlein Department of Agriculture, Western Illinois University, Malcomb, IL 61455-1390 Dennis T. Ray Department of Plant Sciences, the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Introduction Triploid watermelons are theoretically seedless and are the result of crosses between tetraploid female and a diploid male plants (1). Tetraploid […]

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Inheritance of Light Green Flower Color (gf) in Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 22:31-33 (article 12) 1999 Young-Seok Kwon National Alpine Agricultural Experiment Station, Pyongchang, Korea.232-950 Fenny Dane Department of Horticulture, Auburn University, AL 36849 USA Introduction Watermelon, Citrullus lanatus (Thunb,) is cultivated in many countries of the world. It is an important vegetable crop in Korea, where the acreage in 1998 was more […]

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A Tendrilless Mutant in Watermelon: Phenotype and Inheritance

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 22:28-30 (article 11) 1999 Bill Rhodes School of Plant, Statistical and Ecological Sciences, Poole Agricultural Center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634 Xingping Zhang Hollar Seeds, P.O. Box 106, Rocky Ford, CO 81-67-0106 Vance Baird and Halina Knapp School of Plant, Statistical and Ecological Sciences, Poole Agricultural Center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC […]

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1999 Gene List for Watermelon

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 22:61-77 (article 23) 1999 Bill Rhodes Horticulture Department, E142 Poole Agriculture center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0375 Fenny Dane Department of Horticulture, 101 Funchess Hall, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849 Lists of the genes of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. and Nakaio) have been published previously in HortScience, 1976 (40) and […]

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