Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:57-58 (article 21) 1992 W.A. Mackay, T. J. Ng and F.A. Hammerschlag Department of Horticulture, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USDA, ARS, Plant Molecular Biology Laboratory, BARC-West, 10300 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville, MD 20442 Detached leaf inoculation assays by Kuti and Ng (2) of fifty melon cultigens revealed no source […]
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Search for Sources of Resistance to a Melon Dieback Disease in Spain
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:55-56 (article 20) 1992 J. Esteva, F. Nuez and J. Garvia-Jimenez Dpto. Biotecnologia. Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), Spain; Dpto. Produccion Vegetal. Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain In the Spanish Mediterranean coast a disease has appeared which brings about the sudden death of melon plants. In the Valencian area this disease […]
Bitterness in Snake Cucumber Cucumis melo var. flexuosus Naud.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:54 (article 19) 1992 Hanan S. Elawed and Ali E. El Jack Ministry of Agriculture, Khartoum, Sudan; Department of Horticulture, University of Gezira, Wad Medani, Sudan The immature fruit of the Snake cucumber is a popular salad and pickling crop in the Sudan. Bitter fruits are occasionally discovered in the produce, […]
Interaction and Linkage Tests of Flesh Color Genes in Cucumis melo L.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:53 (article 18) 1992 Carl D. Clayberg Department of Horticulture and Forestry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-4002, USA The melon genes green flesh (gf) and white flesh (wf) have each been reported to be inherited as simple recessives to orange flesh (2, 3). However, their interaction has not been described. […]
Pedigree of PI 414723 Melon
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:51-52 (article 17) 1992 James D. McCreight, G. Weston Bohn, and Albert N. Kishaba U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, 1636 East Alisal Street, Salinas, CA 93901 PI 414723 from India has received much attention from breeders, pathologist and entomologists for resistances to: zucchini yellow mosaic and watermelon mosaic viruses […]
Interactive Microcomputer Database for Identification of Cucumis
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:48-50 (article 16) 1992 Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr. USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, Building 265, BARC-East, 10300 Baltimore Boulevard, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2350 U.S.A. Recently a taxonomic monograph (11) of the genus Cucumis Linnaeus (Cucurbitaceae), as it has been circumscribed since its inception (2, 3, 8, 9, 10, […]
Database of Native Distributions for Cucumis
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:45-47 (article 15) 1992 Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr. USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, Building 265, BARC-East, 10300 Baltimore Boulevard, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2350 U.S.A. A taxonomic monograph (7) of the genus Cucumis Linnaeus (Cucurbitaceae) was completed, and the morphological, cytological, and macrodistributional data were distributed in a format […]
Somatic Embryogenesis and Plant Regeneration from Cotyledon Protoplasts of Cucumis sativus Wisconsin 2843
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:40-44 (article 14) 1992 B. Garcia-Sogo, M. Dabauza, L.A. Roig, and V. Moreno Plant Cell Tissue Culture Lab, Biotechnology Department, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Cno. de Vera, 14. 46020-Valencia, Spain Wisconsin 2843 is a cucumber breeding population with multiple disease resistance (12). The population is homozygous for resistance to cucumber mosaic […]
Initiation, Maintenance and Plantlet Regeneration from Long-term Suspension Cultures of Pickling Cucumber
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:35-39 (article 13) 1992 S.J.T. Raharjo and Z.K. Punja Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6 Methods for the culture and sustained cell divisions and growth of plant cells or cell aggregates in liquid medium containing appropriate growth regulators have been reported for a number […]
Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Induced Mutations. II. A Second Short Petiole Mutant
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:33-34 (article 12) 1992 M. Rucinska, K. Niemirowicz-Szcytt and A. Korzeniewska Department of Genetics and Horticultural Plant Breeding, Warsaw Agricultural University – SGGW, 02-766 Warsaw, Poland The Short petiole-2 mutation of cucumber is part of our collection of chemically-induced mutants obtained by Kubicki (1). The first mutant line from the collection […]