Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:79-81 (article 40) 1983 R. L. Metcalf, J. E. Ferguson, Dan Fischer, Richard Lampman and John Andersen Departments of Entomology and Horticulture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801 Wild species of Cucurbitaceae are well known for producing the intensely bitter oxygenated tetracyclic triterpenoids, the cucurbitacins (Cucs). These Cucs are kairomones for […]