An Estimate of Heritability of Fruit Number from a Cross Between a Pickling Cucumber Inbred (Cucumis sativus L.) and an Inbred of C. hardwickii R.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:10-11 (article 6) 1980 R.R. Horton Department of Horticulture, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27650 R.L. Lower and J. Nienhuis University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Low fruit number per plant is the major factor in reducing yield of once-over mechanically harvested pickling cucumbers (4). Smith et al. (6) used a […]

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Interspecific Grafting to Promote Flowering in Cucumis hardwickii

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 2:11-12 (article 7) 1979 J. Nienhuis and R. L. Lower University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 D. M. Pharr North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27650 Cucumis hardwickii Royle is thought to be either a feral or progenitor species of the cultivated cucumber, C. sativus L. It is currently being evaluated in our breeding […]

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