In Vivo Pollen Tube Growth as a Measure of Interspecific Incongruity in Cucumis L.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:52-54 (article 31) 1980 Y.O. Kho, A.P.M. den Nijs and J. Franken Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, the Netherlands Pollen tube growth in the style was studied in a diallel involving ten African species of Cucumis as well as C. sativus L. Several workers have studied interspecific relationships within the genus by assessing fruit […]

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Use of In vitro Culture for Inducing Germination of Cucumis Seed

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 2:46-47 (article 28) 1979 D. L. Visser and J. Franken Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, The Netherlands Several 10-year old seed samples of accessions of wild Cucumis species in the breeding collection of the Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding did not germinate under standard conditions, which included heat treatments as used for […]

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