Taxonomic Rank and Rarity of Cucurbita okeechobeensis

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 11:83-85 (article 35) 1988 Thomas C. Andres Department of Horticultural Science, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, NY 14456 Gary P. Nabhan Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N. Galvin Parkway, Phoenix, AZ Cucurbita okeechobeensis (Small) is, as the name implies, a gourd first described as endemic to the muck-laden shores and […]

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Natural Hybridization of Wild Cucurbita sororia Group and Domesticated C. mixta in Southern Sonora, Mexico

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 7:73-75 (article 32) 1984 Merrick, Laura C. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14556 and University of California, Davis, CA 95616 Gary P. Nabhan Native Seeds/SEARCH, and University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Despite numerous experimental hybrids that have been made between Cucurbita species to determine taxonomic relationships among taxa in this genus, […]

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Evidence of Gene Flow Between Cultivated Cucurbita mixta and a Field Edge Population of Wild Cucurbita at Onavas, Sonora

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 7:76-77 (article 33) 1984 Nabhan, Gary P. Office of Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 In an earlier-written note appearing in this newsletter, Merrick and Nabhan (1) suggest that natural hybridization occasionally occurs between wild Cucurbita sororia group populations and domesticated C. mixta in Mexico. Whitaker (2) has […]

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