It has become nearly axiomatic that “cucumbers” were familiar to ancient Mediterranean civilizations. A number of authors specializing in cucurbits, almost a Who’s Who of Cucurbitology, have written that the cucumber, Cucumis sativus L., spread westward from its homeland in the foothills of the Himalayas some 3000 years ago. It is also understood axiomatically that […]
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2009 Gene List for Squash
Harry S. Paris A.R.O., Newe Ya’ar Research Center, Ramat Yishay 30-095 (Israel) Eileen Kabelka University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl 32611 (U.S.A.) The genus Cucurbita L. contains 12 or 13 species (50). As far as is known, all have a complement of 20 pairs of chromosomes (2n = 40). This gene list for Cucurbita contains detailed sources of information, being […]
2007 Squash and Pumpkin Reports
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report No. 30 Squash and Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.) Diversity within Cucurbita maxima and C. moschata for resistance to RNA viruses Menahem Edelstein, Harry S. Paris, Amit Gal-On, Giora Barkan, Diana Leibman, and Rivka Hadas (Israel) CGC 30:31-32 (2007) New Plant Variety Protection (PVP) Forms for Pumpkin/Squash/Gourd Harry S. Paris, Janice Strachan, Mark […]
2004 Gene List for Cucurbita species
Harry S. Paris A.R.O., Newe Ya’ar Research Center, Ramat Yishay 30-095 (Israel) Rebecca Nelson Brown Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331 (U.S.A.) A complete list of genes for Cucurbita species was last published 12 years ago (33). Since then, only updates have been published (72, 73). The genus Cucurbita L. contains 12 or 13 species […]
2000 Cucurbita Gene List Update
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 23:137-138 (2000) R.W. Robinson Department of Horticultural Science, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva NY 14456 H.S. Paris Dept. of Vegetable Crops, Agric. Research Organization, New Ya’ar Research Center, P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay, 30-095, Israel Previous lists of Cucurbita genes were published in CGC Rpt. 15: 102-109 (1992) and […]
Some Comments Concerning the Origin and Taxonomy of Old World Pumpkins
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 23:99-100 (article 33) 2000 Harry S. Paris Department of Vegetable Crops, Agricultural Research Organization, Newe Ya’ar Research Center, P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay 30-095, Israel; [email protected] Various forms of cucurbita pepo, many of them pumpkins, are recorded in botanical tomes of Europe beginning in the mid-16th century (6). Of the pumpkins, […]
Potential Usefulness of SSR Markers for Studying Infraspecific Variability in Cucurbita pepo
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 23:71-72 (article 24) 2000 Nurit Katzir, Neta Mozes-Daube, Yael Danin-Poleg, and Harry S. Paris Department of Vegetable Crops, Agricultural Research Organization, Newe Ya-ar Research Center, P.P. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay 30-095, Israel Simple sequence repeats (SSRs), also known as microsatellites, consist of variable numbers of tandem repeats of up to five […]
Relationship between Fruit Size and Seed Size in Cucurbits
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 23:64-67 (article 21) 2000 Haim Nerson and Harry S. Paris Department of Vegetable Crops, Agricultural Research Organization, Newe Ya’ar Research center, P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay, 30-095, Israel The seed yield of any fruit is a function of seed number and seed size. Seed number is determined early in fruit development […]
Significance of Paintings (1769-1774) of Cucurbita pepo Fruits by A.N. Duchesne
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 23:58-59 (article 18) 2000 Harry S. Paris Department of Vegetable Crops, Agricultural Research Organization, Newe Ya’ar Research center, P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay 30-095, Israel Cucurbita entered recorded history in the botanical herbals of the Renaissance period. From 1542 through 1700, over 50 original illustrations were published of various forms of […]
Duchesne is the Botanical authority for Cucurbita moschata and Cucurbita maxima
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 23:56-57 (article 17) 2000 Harry S. Paris Department of Vegetable Crops, Agricultural Research Organization, Newe Ya’ar Research Center, P. P. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay 30-095, Israel The botanical authority cited for cucurbita moschata in scientific papers has varied among various writers. Whitaker and Davis (10), in their book “Cucurbits,” gave the […]