A gynoecious (gy) mutant was previously described in watermelon (Jiang and Lin, 2007; Fig. 1). This original gy mutant will eventually produce some perfect flowers which will allow the genotype to be selfed and maintained. A apetalous gynoecious mutant was observed from gynoecious line ‘Mi Guo’ grown in the winter nurseries in Sanya, Hainan in […]
Jie YANG
A New Dwarf Mutant dw-4 in Watermelon
A spontaneous dwarf mutant was discovered from inbred watermelon line ‘5-6y’. Genetic study showed that the dwarf mutant is genetically stable and the dwarf trait is inherited as a single recessive gene. Allelism test showed that the new dwarf gene is not allelic to the two known dwarf genes dw-1 and dw 2. The allelism […]