Heritability of Resistance to Rhizoctonia Fruit Rot in a Wide Base Cucumber Population

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 7:25-26 (article 12) 1984 J.T. Sloane and T.C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Rhizoctonia fruit rot is a major disease problem in the southern U.S., reducing yields by an average of 7 to 9% annually (3). No single-gene resistance to the disease has been […]

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Screening Cucumber for Resistance to Belly Rot Caused by Rhizoctonia solani

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:29-31 (article 15) 1983 J. T. Sloane, T. C. Wehner, and S. F. Jenkins, Jr. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27650 Belly rot of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) caused by Rhizoctonia solani Kuhn is an important disease in the southern U.S.A. The average annual loss of cucumbers to belly rot in the U.S. […]

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