Controversy on Resistance to Fusarium Wilt in ‘Perlita’ (Cucumis melo L.)

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 10:60-61 (article 32) 1987 G. Risser Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique 84140 Avignon-Montfavet, France In 1985, Zink and Gubler (3) reported that ‘Perlita’ resistance to Fusarium wilt (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis) races 0 and 2 is conferred by a dominant gene Fom-3 different from the gene Fom-1 that controls […]

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Varietal Differences in Growth of Melon (Cucumis melo L.) at Low Temperature

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 2:23 (article 14) 1979 G. Risser Station d’Amélioration des Plantes Maraîchères, I.N.R.A. Domaine Saint Maurice, 84140 Montfavet-Avignon, France Melon is known as requiring high temperatures for a good growth, but we did not know differences in varietal reaction occur at low temperature. First, we studied the action of root temperature. For […]

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