1982 Cucumber Report

Report No. 5 Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) Effect of the duration of short-day treatment on the flowering response of a Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii (R.) Alef line P.T. Della Vecchia, C.E. Peterson and J.E. Staub (USA) CGC 5:2-3 (1982) Inheritance of short-day response to flowering in crosses between a Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii (R.) Alef line and Cucumis sativus L. lines P.T. Della Vecchia, C.E. Peterson […]

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1982 Squash Report

Report No. 5 Squash and Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.) On white cotyledons in Cucurbita pepo L. Helen Atthowe and O. Shifriss (USA) CGC 5:39 (1982) Dry matter accumulation and productivity in bush and vine strains of winter squash C.E. Broderick and J.B. Loy (USA) CGC 5:40-41 (1982) Cucurbitacins of cotyledons of Cucurbitaceae cultivars as related to Diabroticite beetle attack J.E. Ferguson, […]

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1982 Other Cucurbit Genera & Species Reports

Report No. 5 Other Genera and Species In vitro culture of embryos of Cucumis zeyheri Sond. (2n=24) J.B.M. Custers and A. Khatun (The Netherlands & Bangladesh) CGC 5:54-56 (1982) Inheritance of resistance to cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGM) in Cucumis anguria L. A.P.M. den Nijs (The Netherlands) CGC 5:57-58 (1982) Rectification of the names of certain accessions […]

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 1981 Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Membership Directory

Adams, Howard. Northrup, King and Company, Post Office Box 1406, Woodland, CA 95695. Breeding commercial cultivars. Adeniji, Adeoye A. University of Nebraska, Department of Horticulture, 377 Plant Science Building, Lincoln, NE 68583. Ahsan, A. Shoaib. Serial Section, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Library, New Delhi 110012, India. Alexandrova, Maria. Institute for Vegetable Crops, “Maritza” 32, Bresovsko […]

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Variability for Seed Quality Among Fruit from Individual Compact Cucumber Plants

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 4:4-5 (article 2) 1981 M.D. Edwards and R. L. Lower University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Considerable variability has been observed for emergence percentage and other seed characteristics within a heterogeneous population of compact cucumber genotypes, as reported in a previous study (CGC #4, pp. 2-4). The present study was designed […]

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Investigations into the Characteristics of Seeds From Compact Cucumber Plants

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 4:2-4 (article 1) 1981 M.D. Edwards and R. L. Lower University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Seeds from compact (cp cp) cucumber plants often germinate poorly when compared to those from normal vining-type (Cp Cp) plants, particularly in adverse environments.”Compact” seeds also appear somewhat unlike “vining” cucumber seeds. The average seed […]

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