Sources of Resistance to Viruses in Lagenaria siceraria

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 4:38-40 (article 21) 1981 R. Provvidenti New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva, NY 14456 In 1977, we reported (2) that an accession of Lagenaria siceraria, PI 391602 from China, was resistant to squash mosaic virus (SqMV), watermelon mosaic virus 1 (WMV-1), watermelon mosaic virus 2 (WMV-2). and that […]

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Vegetable Improvement Newsletter No. 22

February 1980 Compiled by H.M. Munger, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 1. Some Germplasm of Rheum rhaponticum and Related Species David W. Davis Dept. of Horticultural Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108 The University of Minnesota has for many years maintained a sizeable collection of rhubarb types brought together by the late […]

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Multiple Virus Resistance in Cucurbita species

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 1:26-27 (article 25) 1978 R. Provvidenti, R. W. Robinson and H. M. Munger New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva NY 14456 Adequate levels of resistance to several viral diseases have not been found in cultivated Cucurbita species. Therefore, we tested wild species of the genus to determine if genes for virus resistance could […]

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