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Amnon Levi
CUCURBITACEAE 2018 Abstracts (BS)
Biotic Stress (BS) View articles in the conference PDF booklet. Aphid-Triggered Immunity in Melon / Key Determinants for Durable Resistance to Virus and Aphids Nathalie Boissot INRA-GAFL, Montfavet, 84143, France The Vat gene in melon is unique in conferring resistance to both A. gossypii and the viruses it transmits. This double phenotype is controlled by […]
L-Citrulline Levels in Watermelon Cultivars From Three Locations
Angela R. Davis and Wayne W. Fish Wes Watkins Agricultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, P.O. Box 159, Lane, OK 74555 Amnon Levi United States Vegetable Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2700 Savannah highway, Charleston, SC 29414 Stephen King Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843 Todd Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina […]
Green-Fleshed Watermelon Contains Chlorophyll
Many popular and technical reports on watermelon flesh colors ignore green, an uncommon color. The earliest report of this color mutant that we were able to find dates back more than one hundred years. In this report, inheritance of pink-fleshed vs. green-fleshed genes in watermelon was explored and resulted in fruit intermediate in character, the […]
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 […]