Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 16:27-29 (article 9) 1993 Meng Zhang and Hongwen Cui Department of Horticulture, Northwestern Agricultural University, Yangling Shanxi, 712100, P.R. China Cucumber breeding objectives suggested by the “Chinese Cucumber Breeding Cooperation Team” include the development of an early maturing, high yielding cucumber which is resistant to anthracnose, fusarium wilt and downy mildew […]
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Application of narrow sense canonical characters to cucumber breeding
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 16:30-34 (article 10) 1993 Hongwen Cui and Yongtao Qi Department of Horticulture, Northwestern Agricultural university, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P.R. China; Beijing Vegetable Research Center, Beijing, 1000081, P.R. China Previous studies have shown that the correlation between heterosis of early yield in F1 hybrids and its associated component (ACT) traits was near […]
Correlation Between Parents and F1 Progeny in Earliness Heterosis and the Estimation of Traits Limits of Parents
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:13-16 (article 6) 1992 Hongwen Cui, Yongtao Qi, Jianhui Liu and Zhongbo Ren Department of Horticulture, Northwestern Agricultural University, Yangling, Shaanxi 172100, P.R. China Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is one of the important summer vegetables in China. There is an urgent requirement for early cultivars of cucumber for use in plastic […]
Cucumber Cultivar Improvement in the People’s Republic of China
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:5-7 1991 Hongwen Cui and Xingping Zhang Department of Horticulture, Northwestern Agricultural University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P.R. China Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is as important as tomato in vegetable production in China. Cucumber is grown widely throughout the country, especially in North China, where it is the number one summer vegetable. […]