Attempts at Colchicine Doubling of an Interspecific Hybrid of Cucumis sativus L. x C. hystrix Chakr.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 20:24-26 (article 12) 1997 J.F. Chen and J.E. Staub Vegetable Crops Research Unit, USDA/ARS, Departments of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI. 53706 U.S.A. Introduction. Traditional approaches for interspecific hybridization have been used in Cucumis. These include growth regulator application (Custer and den Nijs, 1986), pollen irradiation (Beharav and Cohen, 1994), use […]

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Regeneration of Interspecific Hybrids of Cucumis Sativus L. x C. hystrix Chakr. by Direct Embryo Culture

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 19:34-35 (article 13) 1996 J.F. Chen and J.E. Staub, Y. Tashiro Vegetable Crops Research, USDA/ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A., Plant Cell Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University, Saga 840, JAPAN Introduction. Cucumis hystrix is a wild species of Cucumis subgen. Cucumis, which originated in Asia (Kirkbride, […]

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