There are two general patterns of striped pigmentation patterns in Cucurbita pepo, reverse striping (3, 7), characterized by green narrow stripes over the vein tracts (vasculature) and wide white stripes between the vein tracts, and normal striping (5, 6, 8), characterized by narrow white to blue-gray stripes over vein tracts and wide green stripes between the vein tracts. There are different phenotypes of normal striping conferred by multiple alleles at the l-1 locus (5, 6), and two systems for reverse striping (3, 7). Striped alleles are dominant to l-1, but recessive to L-1.