Evaluation of Two Field Inoculation Methods for Testing Resistance to Bacterial Fruit Blotch in Watermelon Fruit

Bacterial fruit blotch (BFB) caused by Acidovoraxcitrulli is a major seed-borne disease that affects watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) seedling and fruit production around the world (5,9). A. citrulli can infect all growth stages of the watermelon plant: seeds, seedlings, foliage, flowers, and fruit(5). The scant research on fruit resistance in favor of foliar resistance has three […]

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2017 Gene List for Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 39-40: 2017 Cucumber Gene Catalog Yiqun Weng USDA-ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit, Horticulture Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 Introduction This is an update of the 2010 version of Cucumber Gene List (Call and Wehner 2010). […]

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2015 Gene List for Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 28-29: 2015 Shengping Zhang Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 U.S.A. Introduction This is the latest version of the gene list for cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. ). In addition to morphological and resistance genes, this list includes […]

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2013 Gene List for Other Genera of Cucurbitaceae

Kyle M. VandenLangenberg and Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Introduction The Cucurbitaceae includes many important vegetable species, including cucumber, melon and watermelon. Those are major crop species originally from the Old World: cucumber from India; melon and watermelon from Africa (Wehner and Maynard, 2003). However, there […]

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Natural Outcrossing in Watermelon – A Review

Rakesh Kumar and Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai var. lanatus] belongs to the family Cucurbitaceae and subtribe Benincasinae (24). Other members of the Cucurbitaceae are cucumber, melon, pumpkin, and gourd. The genus Citrullus has been divided taxonomically into four […]

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L-Citrulline Levels in Watermelon Cultivars From Three Locations

Angela R. Davis and Wayne W. Fish Wes Watkins Agricultural Research Laboratory, USDA-ARS, P.O. Box 159, Lane, OK 74555 Amnon Levi United States Vegetable Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 2700 Savannah highway, Charleston, SC 29414 Stephen King Department of Horticultural Sciences, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843 Todd Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina […]

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Yield of Spring-Planted Cucumber Using Row Covers, Polyethylene Mulch, and Chilling Resistant Cultivars

North Carolina is a leading producer of field-grown cucumbers (Cucumis sativus L.) in the United States. In the 2001 to 2003, North Carolina ranked second in the production of processing (pickling) cucumbers, after Michigan, with approximately 74,700 Mg harvested per year. In the same period, North Carolina ranked fifth in the production of fresh-market (slicing) […]

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