Marlene Taja and Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Introduction The Cucurbitaceae includes many important vegetables species, including cucumber, melon and watermelon. Those are major crop species originally from the Old World: cucumber from India; melon and watermelon from Africa (Wehner and Maynard, 2003). However, there are […]