Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:6-11 (article 2) 1994 J.E. Staub Vegetable Crops Research, USDA/ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706 James McCreight and I have recently returned from a plant collection trip to India (McCreight and Staub, 1993). This collection trip increased the number of accessions in each of the U.S. cucumber and […]
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A Core Collection for Cucumber: To Be or Not To Be
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:1-5 (article 1) 1994 J.E. Staub Vegetable Crops Research, USDA/ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A. In the recent past there have been discussions among scientists interested in germplasm management regarding the definition and construction of core collections for agronomic and horticultural crop species (Brown 1989a,b; Frankel and […]
Cucumis Germplasm: 1992 Collection Expedition in India
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 16:35-36 (article 11) 1993 J.D. McCreight, J.E. Staub, N.M. Koppar and U. Ch. Srivastava U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Agricultural Research Station, 1636 East Alisal Street, Salinas, CA 93905, USA; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA; National […]
Leaf Structure and Photosynthetic Relationships in Cucumis sativus var. sativus and Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 16:10-13 (article 5) 1993 J.E. Staub and B.E. Struckmeyer Vegetable Crops Research, USDA/ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53076 U.S.A. Cucumis sativus var. sativus L. (cucumber) is widely cultivated in many parts of the world. Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii (r.) Alef. is a fully cross-compatible botanical variety of var. […]
Phylogenetic Relationships Among Several African Cucumis Species: A Working Evolutionary Hypothesis
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:4-6 (article 2) 1992 J.E. Staub and L.D. Knerr Vegetable Crops Research, USDA/ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Phylogenetic models of the genus Cucumis have been constructed based on variation in morphology and geography, cucurbitacins, flavonoids, cytological studies and chromosome banding patterns, cross-compatibility, isozymes, and nuclear DNA. […]
A Multivariate Re-evaluation of Biochemical Genetic Diversity in Cucumis sativus L.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:25-28 (article 10) 1991 L. D. Knerr and J. E. Staub Vegetable Crops Research, USDA/ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706 Genetic diversity in the U.S. Cucumis sativus var. sativus L. and var. hardwickii (R.) Alef. germplasm collection was assessed using 18 putative enzyme coding loci (2). These loci […]
Use of Silver Thiosulfate as a Potential Tool for Testing Gynoecious Sex Stability in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 10:18-20 (article 13) 1987 Staub, J.E. and L. Crubaugh U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service and Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) plants under stress. produce more staminate flowers than those grown under optimal conditions (1,2,4,8). For once-over mechanical harvest, processing cucumbers with […]
Imposed Environmental Stresses and Their Relationship to Sex Expression in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 10:11 (article 12) 1987 Staub, J. E. and L. Crubaugh U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service and Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 It has long been clear that environmental factors affect cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) fruit development (6), and sex expression (1,3,8). In a study […]
Discrimination Among Seven Cucumis hardwickii (R) Alef. Accessions Based on Principal Component Analysis.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 9:27-32 (article 8) 1986 Staub, J.E., R. Kane and R. S. Kupper U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service and Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Fruit yield in cucumber (cucumis sativus L.) is suppressed due to the physiological nature of its fruiting habit. Fruit developing from the […]
Differences in Net Apparent Photosynthetic Rates and Chlorophyll Content Among and Between Cucumis anguria var. anguria and var. longipes Meeuse.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 9:24-26 (article 7) 1986 Staub, J.E., R. Kane and A.M. Braunschweig USDA, ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 The gherkin, Cucumis anguria var. anguria Meeuse, produces an abundance of fruit which can be prepared in several ways to provide a source of nourishment. In the West Indies […]