Hypersensitivity to Anthracnose Infection in Citrullus lanatus

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 4:32-33 (article 16) 1981 B. B. Rhodes Edisto Experiment Station, P. O. Box 247, Blackville, SC 29817 Van der Plank (3) discussed the hypersensitivity reaction in plants as first defined by Muller. It includes the morphological and histological change that when produced by an infectious agent, elicit the premature dying of […]

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1980 Other Cucurbit Genera and Species Reports

Report No. 3 Other Genera and Species Reciprocal crosses between Cucumis africanus L.f. and C. metuliferus Naud. II. Embryo development in vivo and in vitro J.B.M. Custers and G. van Ee (The Netherlands) CGC 3:50-51 (1980) In vivo pollen tube growth as a measure of interspecific-incongruity in Cucumis L. Y.O. Kho, A.P.M. den Nijs and J. Franken (The Netherlands) CGC 3:52-54 (1980) Problems with the […]

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Inheritance of a Pale Seedling Character in Citrullus lanatus

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:39-40 (article 22) 1980 B. B. Rhodes Edisto Experiment Station, Blackville, SC 29817 The pale seedling character in watermelon was as described previously (1). On first examination, the character appeared to be associated with resistance to race 2 anthracnose (AR2). In 1979 the inheritance of this character and its relationship to […]

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“Divided Leaf”, a Recessive Seedling Marker in Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:24 (article 13) 1980 A.P.M. den Nijs and H.O. Mackiewicz Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, The Netherlands (first author); Department of Genetics, Research Institute of Vegetable Crops, Reguly, Poland (second author) A leaf mutant was obtained by Mackiewicz following ethylenimine treatment of several Polish pickling cucumber cultivars. The character seemed […]

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Induction of Perfect Flowers on Gynoecious Muskmelon by Silver Nitrate and Aminoethoxyvinylglycine

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:35-36 (article 20) 1980 K. W. Owens, C. E. Peterson and G. E. Tolla University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 (first and second authors); Campbell Institute of Agricultural Research, Napoleon, OH 43545 (third author) Recently, several hormones have been found to induce staminate flowers on gynoecious cucumber: silver nitrate (AgNO3) (1, […]

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Embryo Culture of Cucumis Species

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:34 (article 19) 1980 J. D. Norton Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36830 Due to embryo abortion in greenhouse crosses, embryo culture was utilized to produce plants from the Cucumis metuliferus x C. melo cross. Although fruit appeared to develop normally in the C. anguria x C. melocross, the embryos aborted before the fruit matured. Plants of C. melo (PI 140471) […]

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