1980 Melon Report

Report No. 3 Melon (Cucumis melo) In vitro callus and shoot induction from hypocotyl and peduncle of muskmelon (Cucumis melo) K. Abak and R. Dumas de Vaulx (Turkey and France) CGC 3:27-29 (1980) Resistance to cucumber mosaic virus transmission by Aphis gossypii in melon H. Lecoq and M. Pitrat (France) CGC 3:30 (1980) Male sterile-1: Stability of expression […]

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An Estimate of Heritability of Fruit Number from a Cross Between a Pickling Cucumber Inbred (Cucumis sativus L.) and an Inbred of C. hardwickii R.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:10-11 (article 6) 1980 R.R. Horton Department of Horticulture, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27650 R.L. Lower and J. Nienhuis University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Low fruit number per plant is the major factor in reducing yield of once-over mechanically harvested pickling cucumbers (4). Smith et al. (6) used a […]

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An Apetalous Male Sterile Mutant in Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:9 (article 5) 1980 P.E. Grimbly Glasshouse Crops Research Institute, Littlehampton, BN16 3PU, United Kingdom A sterile plant with misshapen fruit was found in a crop of ‘Butchers Disease Resisting’ grown at the Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpeden, Herts, U.K. Plants obtained from cuttings were grown under glass at this institute for […]

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Effects of the White Spine Allele on Skin Toughness and Fruit Firmness in ‘Wisconsin SMR 18’ Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:6-8 (article 4) 1980 B.F. George Heinz, U.S.A., Tracy, CA 95376 H.M. Munger Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 The cream mature fruit color, associated with the white spine allele (b), is preferred by pickle processors over the orange mature fruit color associated with the black spine allele (B). However, many seedsmen […]

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Screening Cucumbers for Resistance to the Vegetable Leafminer

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:5-6 (article 3) 1980 Gwendolyn Eason, G.C. Kennedy, and R.L. Lower North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27650, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Effective chemical control of the pickleworm and cucumber beetle has reduced natural populations of wasp species which formerly kept the vegetable leafminer, Liriomyza sativae Blanchard, under biological control (2,3,4). Host […]

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Rosette, A Spontaneous Cucumber Mutant Arising from Cucumber-Muskmelon Mentor Pollination

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:4 (article 2) 1980 A.C. de Ruiter and B.J. van der Knap DeRuiterzonen Seed Co., Bleiswijk, The Netherlands R.W. Robinson New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Station, Geneva, NY 14456 An interesting variant, given the acronym “megurk” from the combined Dutch words for cucumber and muskmelon, was obtained when cucumber plants […]

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1980 Stocks and Germplasm desired or for Exchange

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:80-81 (article 39) 1980 Stocks Desired T. C. Wehner Chlorophyll deficient stocks of Cucumis sativus, including lines with any of the following genes: cd, g, gc, ls, pl, v, vvi, yc-1, yc-2, and yp. Stocks for Exchange G. W. Bohn, A. N. Kishaba, and J. D. McCreight Cantaloupe breeding line WMR 29 is a high quality watermelon mosaic virus (WMV) 1-resistant cantaloupe […]

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Monoecious Sex Expression in Muskmelon, Cucumis melo L.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:32-33 (article 18) 1980 T. A. More, V. S. Seshadri and J. C. Sharma Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012, India Interest in monoecious sex expression in muskmelon is of recent origin and has increase because of the obvious difficulties associated with emasculation in the common andromonoecious cultivars of muskmelon. Seed […]

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1980 Covenant and By-Laws of the Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:76-79 (article 38) 1980 Article I. Organization and Purposes The Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative is an informal, unincorporated scientific society (hereinafter designated “CGC”) organized without capital stock and intended not for business or profit but for the advancement of science and education in the field of genetics of cucurbits (Family: Cucurbitaceae). Its […]

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