Performance of Zucchini Yellow Mosaic Virus Resistant ‘Golden Delicious’ Type Pumpkin Hybrids

The Cucurbita maxima ‘Golden Delicious’ (GD) type is the preferred pumpkin grown for processing and culinary seed production in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Processors value their large size (five – 10 kg), thin, red-orange skin (which will not blemish processed product) and high quality flesh (7% soluble solids and 10% total solids). Culinary seed […]

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Searching for Molecular Markers Linked to ZYMV Resistance in Squash

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 23:69-70 (article230) 2000 Rebecca N. Brown and James R. Myers Department of Horticulture, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331 The purpose of this study was to find a molecular marker linked to zucchini yellow mosaic virus resistance from Cucurbita moschata ‘Nigerian Local’. ‘Nigerian Local’ is a major source of virus resistance […]

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