Linkage of Sex Type, Growth Habit and Fruit Length in Two Cucumber Inbred Backcross Populations

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 5:12-13 (article 6) 1982 K. W. Owens and C. E. Peterson University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Two inbred backcross populations (2) were developed by crossing W1540, a small-fruited, gynoecious, determinate USDA breeding line with W1925 (Population I) and W1928 (Population II), both of which were large-fruited, monoecious and indeterminate. Two […]

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Response of Muskmelon Cultivars to Bacterial Wilt (Erwinia tracheiphila [E.F. Smith] Holland)

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 5:26-27 (article 13) 1982 K. W. Owens Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 C. E. Peterson U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Bacterial wilt (BW) is a serious disease of muskmelon in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. The disease is caused […]

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Induction of Perfect Flowers on Gynoecious Muskmelon by Silver Nitrate and Aminoethoxyvinylglycine

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:35-36 (article 20) 1980 K. W. Owens, C. E. Peterson and G. E. Tolla University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 (first and second authors); Campbell Institute of Agricultural Research, Napoleon, OH 43545 (third author) Recently, several hormones have been found to induce staminate flowers on gynoecious cucumber: silver nitrate (AgNO3) (1, […]

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