2007 Melon Reports

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report No. 30 Melon (Cucumis melo) Study of Natural Variation in Root Structure within Cucumis melo L. using in vitro culture. Ana Fita, Cristina Roig, Belén Picó and Fernando Nuez (Spain) CGC 30:20-22 (2007) Evaluation of non-preference of melon plants by B. tabaci F.J.Palomares-Rius, López-Sesé, A.I. and M. L. Gómez-Guillamón (Spain) CGC […]

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Host Range of a Melon Yellowing Virus Transmitted by bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) in Southern Spain

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 19:57-58 (article 20) 1996 J.L. Garcia Carrasco, A.I.L. Sese and M.L. Gomez-Guillamon Experimental Station La Mayora, E-29750 Algarrobo-Costa, Malaga, Spain To study the host range of a melon yellowing virus transmitted by Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) in Spain (4), plant species most commonly cultivated in the area, weeds growing near the greenhouse, […]

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Specificity of Transmission of Melon Yellowing Viruses by Trialeurodes vaporariorum and Bemisia tabaci

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 18:44-44 (article 21) 1995 C. Soria, A.I. L. Sese, and M.L. Gomez-Guillamon Experimental Station La Mayora, 29759 Algarrobo-Costa, Malaga SPAIN In 1982. symptoms of melon-yellowing disease were detected in melon (Cucumis melo L.) crops cultivated under plastic greenhouses in the southwest of Spain (Soria and Gomez-Guillamon. 1989). The approximately 950 nm […]

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Resistance of Cucumis melo var. agrestis to Trialeurodes vaporariorum

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:86-87 (article 25) 1994 C. Soria, A.I.L. Sese, and M.L. Gomez-Guillamon Estacion Experimental “La Mayora” CSIC, 29750 Algarrobo-Costa, Malaga SPAIN Cucumis melo var. agrestis Naud. appears to have some type of inherent resistance to greenhouse whitefly Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood. This work aimed to determine the possible existence of antixenosis or antibiosis […]

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Resistance of Cucumis melo var. agrestis against Melon-Yellowing Disease

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:74-75 (article 20) 1994 C. Soria and M.L. Gomez-Guillamon Estacion Experimental “La Mayora” CSIC, 29750 Algarrobo-Costa, Malaga SPAIN Several accessions of Cucumis melo L. with different degrees of resistance to melon yellowing disease whose causal agent is a closterovirus transmitted by Trialeurodes vaporariorum Westwood (1) have been selected (4). One will […]

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Appearance of a Possible New Melon Yellowing Disease in Spain

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:72-73 (article 19) 1994 A.I. L. Sese, M.L. Gomez-Guillamon, J.R. Diaz-Ruiz Estacion Experimental “La Mayora” CSIC, 29750 Algarrobo-Costa, Malaga SPAIN, Centro de Investisgaciones Biologicas CSIC, Velazquez 144, 28006 Madrid, SPAIN A previously unknown melon yellowing disease associated with the presence of Bemisia tabaci (5) has been found in melon, Cucumis melo […]

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Search for Sources of Resistance to a Whitefly Transmitted Yellowing Disease in Melon

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:59-60 (article 22) 1991 F. Nuez, J. Esteva, C. Soria and M.L. Gomez-Guillamon Dpto. Biotecnologia. Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain; Estacion Experimental “La Mayora”, Algarrobo-Costa (Malaga), Spain The principal Spanish area for greenhouse vegetable cultivation is the south-east coast. For some time, a yellowing disease has been a serious problem for […]

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Ten Interspecific Crosses in the Genus Cucumis: A Preparatory Study to Seek Crosses Resistant to Melon Yellowing Disease.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 13:31-33 (article 12) 1990 C. Soria and M. L. Gómez-Guillamón Estación Experimental “La Mayora”, Algarrobo-Costa, (Málaga), Spain J. Esteva and F. Nuez Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Some wild species of the Cucumis genus show resistance to different plant pests and diseases, and consequently they may be useful experimental material for […]

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Host Range of the Causal Agent of Melon Yellowing Disease

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 13:29-30 (article 11) 1990 V. Cura, C. Soria, and M. L. Gómez-Guillamón Estación Experimental “La Mayora”. Algarrobo-Costa, (Málaga), Spain Breeding melon (Cucumis melo L.) plants with genetic resistance to melon yellowing disease is a long-term objective of extended research. Therefore, there is a serious need for short- or medium-term solutions that […]

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Relationship between the Causal Agent of Melon Yellowing Disease in the Southeast of Spain and its Vector

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 13:27-28 (article 10) 1990 C. Soria and M. L. Gómez-Guillamón Estación and Experimental “La Mayora”. Algarrobo-Costa, (Málaga), Spain The impossibility of mechanically transmitting melon yellowing disease to melon plants (Cucumis melo L.) (3) stimulated the design and development of a technique of artificial inoculation that uses the vector of the causal […]

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