Late Male Fertility in a Glabrous, Male-Sterile (gms) Watermelon Line

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:85-89 (article 31) 1991 B. B. Rhodes Department of Horticulture, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0375 The glabrous character can be fixed in lines heterozygous for gms (2, 3). Although Whitaker and Bemis (4) noted the possibility of using late male fertility for maintaining the gms line, no further study of this […]

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Male-Sterile (ms) from China Apparently Non-Allelic to Glabrous-Male Sterile (gms) Watermelon

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 13:46 (article 18) 1990 B. A. Murdock, N. H. Ferguson and B. B. Rhodes Departments of Horticulture (1st and 3rd authors) and Agronomy (2nd author), Clemson University, Clemson SC 29634 Controlled pollinations were made in the summer of 1989 between different watermelon lines containing the single recessive genes male-sterile (ms) and […]

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Toxins: Potential Screening Aid for Selecting Anthracnose Resistance in Cucumbers

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 12:9-10 (article 2) 1989 D.C. Linde, J.M. Shively and B.B. Rhodes Clemson University Edisto Research and Education Center, Blackville, SC 29817 (first and third authors); and Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29632 (second author) Anthracnose (causal agent = Colletotrichum lagenarium) is one of the most important diseases of […]

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A Second Look at the Glabrous Male-Sterile (gms) Character in Watermelon

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 12:58 (article 25) 1989 B.B. Rhodes, B.A. Murdock and J.W. Adelberg Clemson University Edisto Research and Education Center, Blackville, SC Watts (5) recovered the gms character from irradiated seed in 1957 and reported on the variant in 1962. Although the variant behaved as a single recessive gene, there were two notable […]

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Single Gene Control of Anthracnose Resistance in Citrullus?

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 11:64-67 (article 27) 1988 Love, S.L. U. Idaho Aberdeen Research and Extension Center, Aberdeen, ID 83210 Rhodes, B.B. Clemson U. Edisto Research and Education Center, Blackville, SC 29817 This research was supported by a grant from the USDA CRGO. Previous reports (1, 3, 6, 7) indicate that resistance to Colletotrichum lagenarium […]

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Preinoculation peroxidase activity in cucumber leaves not associated with race 2 anthracnose resistance

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 11:20-21 (article 10) 1988 Linde, D.C. Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108 Rhodes, B.B. Clemson University Edisto Research and Education Center, Blackville, SC 29817 Anthracnose, caused by the fungus Colletotrichum lagenarium (Pass.) Ell. and Halst., is one of the major foliar diseases of cucumbers. An inexpensive […]

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Outcrossing in Watermelons

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 10:66-68 (article 35) 1987 B.B. Rhodes Edisto Research and Education Center, Clemson University Blackville, SC 29817 W.C. Adamson USDA Southern Regional Plant Introduction Station Experiment, GA 30212 W.C. Bridges Department of Experimental Statistics Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0367 The minimum distance to prevent pollen transfer between watermelon plants is reported to […]

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Segregation of glabrous male-sterile in an Autotetraploid Line of Citrullus lanatus

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 9:84-86 (article 26) 1986 Rhodes, B.B. and L.G. Blue Clemson University, Edisto Research and Education Center, Blacksville, SC 29817 Love, et. al (4) reported the transfer of a nuclear male-sterile (ms) gene, glabrous male sterile (gms), from a diploid to a tetraploid watermelon line. We noted that this male-sterile tetraploid line […]

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Interaction of Commercial Watermelon Cultivars with Regional Isolates of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 8:62-64 (Article 23) 1985 Nepa, G. A. W., and B. B. Rhodes Clemson University Edisto Experiment Station, Blackville, SC 29817 W. Witcher Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29631 Cirulli (3), Crall (4), and Netzer (6) have suggested different physiological races of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum are present. Armstrong and Armstrong (1) […]

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