Nomenclature of Cucumis melo L.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:43-44 (article 14) 1991 H. M. Munger and R. W. Robinson Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 (first author); Department of Horticultural Sciences, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, N.Y 14456 (second author) The Common Name of Cucumis melo L. The question has arisen recently as to whether the […]

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Inheritance of Resistance to Zucchini Yelow Mosaic Virus in Cucurbita moschata

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 10:80 (article 41) 1987 H. M. Munger Departments of Plant Breeding And Vegetable Crops, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14583 R. Provvidenti New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456 Since Provvidenti et al (1) reported resistance to zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV) in a C. moschata from Nigeria […]

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Epidemics of Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus and Other Cucurbit Viruses in Egypt in the Spring of 1983

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 7:78-79 (article 34) 1984 R. Provvidenti New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456 H.M. Munger Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 H.O. Paulus University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 In Egypt, during the spring of 1983, viral diseases were responsible for devastating epidemics in cucumber, melon, squash and […]

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A Preliminary Report on Screening Watermelons for Resistance to Watermelon Mosaic Viruses 1 and 2

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 7:61-62 (article 27) 1984 Munger, H.M., T.A. More, and S. Awni Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. About 150 watermelon seed lots planted in November, 1982, were inoculated as 3-week seedlings with WMV-1 and WMV-2. Except for about 10 entries, all were PI’s supplied by the Regional Plant Introduction Station at Experiment, […]

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Ulocladium cucurbitae Leafspot on Cucumber (Cucumis sativus)

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:14-15 (article 7) 1983 David P. Lane and Henry M. Munger ​​​​​​​Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 In cucumber breeding plots at Ithaca, cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) resistant progenies with ‘Ashley’ and ‘Poinsett’ in their parentage have repeatedly shown more severe leafspot symptoms and earlier defoliation than other cucumbers with comparable CMV […]

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Two Sources Conferring Partial Dominant Resistance to Powdery Mildew (Sphaerotheca fuliginea Poll.) in Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics CooperAli El Jack and Henry M. Munger Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853ative Report 6:7-8 (article 3) 1983 Ali El Jack and Henry M. Munger Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 In cucumber, nearly all crosses of powdery mildew resistant (PMR) x susceptible parents yield fully susceptible F1s. In a backcross program to transfer PMR […]

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Hybridization of Cucurbita pepo with Disease Resistant Cucurbita Species

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:92 (article 47) 1983 Richard L. Washek and Henry M. Munger Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 Several Cucurbita species, mostly non-cultivated, are sources of resistance to cucumber mosaic, watermelon mosaic-1, watermelon mosaic-2, squash mosaic and powdery mildew (3). Through embryo culture, C. pepo was hybridized successfully with C. martinezii (now considered […]

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Vegetable Improvement Newsletter No. 24

February 1982 Compiled by H.M. Munger, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 1. Responses to Spacing of Spacemaster Cucumber H.M. Munger, R. Washek, and R.W. Riker Departments of Plant Breeding and Vegetable Crops, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 Spacemaster, essentially a dwarf version of Tablegreen 65, is characterized by a short hypocotyl in the seedling stage, […]

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