Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 19:53-56 (article 19) 1996 Jaagrati Jain and T.A. More Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012, India Introduction. Some of the major diseases of muskmelon (e.g., cucumber green mottle mosaicism, powdery mildew and Fusarium wilt) have been reported in Delhi and surrounding areas, thereby highlighting the need to […]
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Selection and Characterization of Known Genetic Marker Accessions for Hybridization with Commercial Varieties of Cucumis melo L.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 19:49-52 (article 18) 1996 J. Jain, T.A. More Division of Vegetable Crops, 1ARI, New Delhi-110012, India; Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India Introduction. The available cultivars of melon (Cucumis melo L.) require improvement in their resistance to diseases like powdery mildew, Fusarium wilt and CGMMV, in addition to […]
Regeneration Response of a Few Genetic Marker Lines and Commercial Cultivars of Cucumis melo L.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 18:48-49 (article 23) 1995 Jaagrati Jain and T.A. More Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi – 110012, India Introduction: A few known marker lines (5) were obtained from Montfavet, France, in order to use the marker genes in somatic hybridization studies. These studies were initiated to investigate […]
Preliminary Screening of Indigenous Cultivars and a Few Known Marker Lines of Cucumis melo for Fusarium Wilt and CGMMV Resistance
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 17:69-71 (article 18) 1994 J. Jain and T.A. More Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi – 110012, INDIA Fusarium wilt (3,4,6) among the fungal diseases and CGMMV (4) among the viral diseases have been found to be responsible for the total eradication of the crop in Delhi […]
Genotypic Control of Regeneration Potential in Cucumis melo
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 16:53-54 (article 19) 1993 J. Jain and T.A. More Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi – 110012, INDIA Present study was undertaken to outline the genotypic control of regeneration potential in C. melo. Three sex forms viz. andromonoecious (Pusa Madhuras), gynoecious (GM-5D, GM-7 and GM-6E-7) and monoecious […]
Breeding and Development of Cucumber Green Mottle Mosaic Virus (CGMMV) Resistant Lines in Melon Cucumis melo L.)
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 16:44-46 (article 16) 1993 T.A. More, A. Varma, V.S. Seshadri, R.G. Somkuwar, and L. Rajamony Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi – 110012, INDIA In sub-tropical parts of India around Delhi, CGMMV has been found more common and dangerous than any other virus on melon (5, 6). […]
Downy Mildew (Pseudoperonospora cubensis B & C) Resistance in Melon (Cucumis melo L.)
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 16:40-41 (article 14) 1993 R.G. Somkuwar and T. A. More Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi – 110012, INDIA Downy mildew has become a major threat to commercial cucurbits including melon and cucumber in India (5). In the sub-tropical pats during the premonsoon rains and in other […]
In Vitro Regeneration in Cucumis melo cv. Pusa Madhuras
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:62-64 (article 23) 1992 Jaagrati Jain and T.A. More Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi – 110012, India Introduction. Most of the cultivated forms of Cucumis melo L., such as Pusa Madhuras, are highly susceptible to field conditions at young stage of vegetative growth. Field conditions, namely […]
Interspecific Hybridization in Cucumis spp.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:69-70 (article 26) 1991 M. Chatterjee and T.A. More Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India 110012 Research work conducted in this Institute revealed that high level resistance to cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV) is not available in cultivated forms of melon (Cucumis melo L.). Nevertheless, […]
Techniques to Overcome Barrier of Interspecific Hybridization in Cucumis
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:66-68 (article 25) 1991 M. Chatterjee and T. A. More Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India 110012 Our efforts to achieve the interspecific hybrid in Cucumis species through conventional breeding procedures were unsuccessful becaue of the existence of a pre-fertilization barrier. The barrier was characterized by […]