QTL Conditioning Yield and Fruit Quality Traits in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 22:8-10 (article 4) 1999 Arian Dijkuizen Firma RAGT, Hauptstrasse 2, 94533 Ottmaring-Buchhofen, Germany Jack E. Staub Vegetable Crops Research Unit, USDA/ARS, Departments of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A. Introduction Recent molecular appraisals of quantitative trait loci (QTL) have documented the importance of genotype (G) x environment (E) interactions in […]

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Correlations Among Yield Components in Exotic Cucumber Germplasm

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 21:21-24 (article 8) 1998 Jinsheng Liu Agricultural Division, Jiangsu State Farms Group Corporation, No. 1 Zhu Jiang Road, Nanjing 210008, P.R. China Jack E. Staub Vegetable Crops Research Unit, USDA/ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A. Introduction. The genetic relationships among 13 botanical varieties of Cucumis savitus […]

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Relationships Among Putative Botanical Varieties in Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 21:1-5 (article 1) 1998 Jinsheng Liu Agricultural Division, Jiangsu State Farms Groiup Corporation, No. 1 Zhu Jiang Road, Nanjing, 210008, P. R. China Jack E. Staub Vegetable Crops Research Unit, USDA/ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A. Introduction. Research using populations developed from diverse breeding lines indicates low […]

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Screening of the U.S. Cucumber Germplasm Collection for Heat Stress Tolerance

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 13:4-7 (article 2) 1990 Jack E. Staub USDA/ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI 53706 Alina Krasowska Research Institute of Vegetable Crops, Skierniewice, Poland The size of the U.S. Cucumis sativus germplasm collection (approx. 800) is small compared to germplasm collections such as bean (approx. 6,000) and potato and […]

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Low Temperature Germination in Muskmelon is Dominant

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 12:50-52 (article 21) 1989 Haim Nelson and Jack E. Staub ARO, Newe Ya’ar Experiment Station, Israel, and USDA-ARS, Department of Horticulture, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Muskmelon seed (Cucumis melo L.), like most domestic cucurbits, requires 17 to 18°C for germination (threshold temperature). At lower temperatures the membrane transfer from the […]

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Lack of chilling resistance in Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii (R.) Alef.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 11:29-32 (article 14) 1988 Jack E. Staub U.S.D.A. / A.R.S., Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Improvement of cucumber (Cucumis sativus var. sativus L.; hereafter referred to as sativus) for low temperature germination and emergence ability has been the focus of several research programs in the U.S.A. (1, […]

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Evaluation of Fruit Quality in Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii (R.) Alef.-Derived Lines

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 11:25-28 (article 13) 1988 Jack E. Staub and Linda R. Frederick, U.S.D.A. / A.R.S. Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Breeding strategies designed to incorporate the sequential fruiting ability of Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii (R.) Alef. (hereafter referred to as hardwickii) into commercially acceptable cultivars (var. sativus L.) […]

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Inheritance of Littleleaf and Multi-branched Plant Type in Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 10:33-34 (article 20) 1987 Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Jack E. Staub and Clinton E. Peterson Department of Horticulture, U.S.D.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Little-leaf is a plant type discovered in an inbred selection in Arkansas. Goode et al. (1) […]

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