Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:31-32 (article 11) 1992 N.P.S. Dhillon Punjab Agricultural University, Vegetable Research Station, Jalandhar – 144 001, India The role of bitterness (caused by cucurbitacins) in cucumber resistance to twospotted spider mite (Tetranychus urticae) is not conclusive. North American researchers reported that bitterness caused resistance to spider mite (2, 3). However, in […]