Characterization of Melon Cultivars 

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 8:39-40 (Article 15) 1985 Gomez-Guillamon, M. L. Estacion Experimental La Mayora (C.S.I.C.), Malaga, Spain Abadia, J. Centro de Edafologia (C.S.I.C.), Murcia, Spain Cuartero, J. Estacion Experimental La Mayora (C.S.I.C.), Malaga, Spain Cortes, C. and F. Nuez Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain An evaluation of several melon cultivars was started in 1983, […]

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Inheritance of Resistance to Downy Mildew in Cucumis melo PI 124111 

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 8:36-38 (Article 14) 1985 Cohen, Y., S. Cohen and H. Eyal Department of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel C. E. Thomas U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Vegetable Laboratory, Charleston, SC 29407 This research was supported by Grant No. US 287-81 from BARD–The United States-Israel Binational […]

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Inheritance Mode of Melon Fruit Characters

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 8:34-35 (Article 13) 1985 Abadia, J. Centro de Edafologia (C.S.I.C.), Murcia, Spain Gomez-Guillamon, M. L. and J. Cuartero Estacion Experimental La Mayora (C.S.I.C.), Malaga, Spain Nuez, F. Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain In 1983 we started a program to study the genetics of various characters important in melon breeding. The inheritance […]

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1985 Squash Reports

Squash and Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.) Obtention of embryos and plants from in vitro culture of unfertilized ovules of Cucurbita pepo D. Chambonnet and R. Dumas de Vaulx (France) CGC 8:66 (1985) Differential sensitivity of Cucurbita pepo cultivars to ethephon Menahem Edelstein, Harry S. Paris, Haim Nerson, Zvi Karchi and Yosef Burger (Israel) CGC 8:67-68 (1985) Rapid TLC and HPLC test For […]

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Segregation of the Determinate (de) Allele in Crosses Between Cucumis sativus L. and C. sativus var. hardwickii (R.) Alef.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 8:2-3 (Article 1) 1985 D.E. Delaney and R.L. Lower University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 In 1982, we initiated a breeding program for increasing the number of lateral branches on determinate plant types. The objective was to alter the plant architecture of current determinate lines by incorporating the multiple lateral branching […]

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Short Petiole, A Useful Seedling Marker for Genetic Studies in Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 8:7-8 (Article 3) 1985 A.P.M. den Nijs and I.W. Boukema Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding (IVT), P.O. Box 16, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands During a visit of the first author to the Ukrainian Research Institute of Vegetable Gardening in Charkov, USSR, Dr. M.C. Efimov demonstrated the use of the ‘short […]

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