Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 20:60-62 (article 27) 1997 M.S. Dhaliwal Department of Vegetable Crops, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141 004, India Introduction. Gherkin, burgherkin or West Indian gherkin is botanically known as Cucumis anguria L. and is a diploid species having chromosome number 2n=24. It has descended from a non-bitter variant of an African wild species C. longipes […]
M.S. Dhaliwal
A Combining Ability Study in Muskmelon Using Line x Tester Analysis
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 18:34-36 (article 15) 1995 M.S. Dhaliwal Dept. of Vegetable Crops, L.S. & F., Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141 004 INDIA Muskmelon, (Cucumis melo L.), is predominantly a cross-pollinated crop, and its ability to produce plenty of seeds per fruit facilitates heterosis breeding. Pollination mechanisms (viz. monoecy, gynoecy and male sterility have been […]