An Improved Procedure for Isolation of High Quality DNA from Watermelon and Melon Leaves

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 22:41-42 (article 15) 1999 Amnon Levi and Claude Thomas U.S. Vegetable Laboratory, USDA, ARS, 2875 Savannah Highway, Charleston, South Carolina 29414 Our previous experiments in isolating DNA from watermelon leaves using the basic cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) procedure (Saghi Maroof et al., 1984; Rogers and Bendich, 1985; Doyle and Doyle, 1987) resulted […]

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In vitro Generation of Tetraploid Watermelon with Two Dinitroanilines and Colchicine

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 22:38-40 (article 14) 1999 Ying Li School of Plant, Statistical and Ecological Sciences, 111 Poole Agricultural Center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634 John F. Whitesides School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, C123 Poole Agricultural Center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634 Bill Rhodes School of Plant, Statistical and Ecological Sciences, 111 Poole […]

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Triploid and Tetraploid Watermelon ( Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. and Nakai) Seed Size and Weight

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 22:34-37 (article 13) 1999 Marietta Loehrlein Department of Agriculture, Western Illinois University, Malcomb, IL 61455-1390 Dennis T. Ray Department of Plant Sciences, the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Introduction Triploid watermelons are theoretically seedless and are the result of crosses between tetraploid female and a diploid male plants (1). Tetraploid […]

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Inheritance of Light Green Flower Color (gf) in Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 22:31-33 (article 12) 1999 Young-Seok Kwon National Alpine Agricultural Experiment Station, Pyongchang, Korea.232-950 Fenny Dane Department of Horticulture, Auburn University, AL 36849 USA Introduction Watermelon, Citrullus lanatus (Thunb,) is cultivated in many countries of the world. It is an important vegetable crop in Korea, where the acreage in 1998 was more […]

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A Tendrilless Mutant in Watermelon: Phenotype and Inheritance

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 22:28-30 (article 11) 1999 Bill Rhodes School of Plant, Statistical and Ecological Sciences, Poole Agricultural Center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634 Xingping Zhang Hollar Seeds, P.O. Box 106, Rocky Ford, CO 81-67-0106 Vance Baird and Halina Knapp School of Plant, Statistical and Ecological Sciences, Poole Agricultural Center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC […]

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1999 Gene List for Watermelon

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 22:61-77 (article 23) 1999 Bill Rhodes Horticulture Department, E142 Poole Agriculture center, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0375 Fenny Dane Department of Horticulture, 101 Funchess Hall, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849 Lists of the genes of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. and Nakaio) have been published previously in HortScience, 1976 (40) and […]

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Evaluation of two Benincasa hispida Genotypes for Fruit Yield, Vine Growth, Size and Shape Characteristics.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 21:67-68 (article 26) 1998 Alejandro Ching Alternative Crops Research and Development Center, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO 64468, U.S.A. Introduction. Winter melon (white or ash gourd, fuzzy gourd, don-kwa) is botanically known as Benincasa hispida (Thunb. Cogn. and has a chromosome number of 2n=24 (2,3,6). Rubatsky and Yamaguchi (4) list […]

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Correlated Genetic Response in Pumpkin Genotypes Selected under Low Income Conditions

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 21:66-66 (article 25) 1998 Humberto Rios Labrada, Antonio Fernandez Almirall and Orlando Batista de la Carrera Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Agricolas (INCA). GP no1 San Jose de las Lajas, La Habana, Cuba cp 32700 Introduction. Centralized pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) breeding programs (CPBP) have been highly effective in producing broadly adapted varieties […]

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