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). […]

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Taxonomic Position of Round Melon (Praecitrullus fistulosus)

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 12:86-88 (article 36) 1989 V.S. Sujatha and V.S. Seshadri Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India Round melon or ‘tinda’ is an Asian cucurbit having a chromosome number of x=12. This taxon was earlier considered as a botanical variety of watermelon, Citrullus lanatus (x=11). Pangalo (8), […]

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Electrophoretic Examination of Cucumis sativus L. and Cucumis melo L.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 12:18-19 (article 8) 1989 V.S. Sujatha and V.S. Seshadri Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012 India The genus Cucumis contains 30 species of which only two species, C. sativus (cucumber) and C. melo (muskmelon), are extensively cultivated. While C. melo has chromosome number of x=12, and […]

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Development of Tropical Gynoecious Lines in Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 11:17-18 (article 8) 1988 T. A. More and V.S. Seshadri Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi – 110012, India Gynoecious sex expression has been responsible for phenomenal development and quicker exploitation of hybrid vigor in cucumber which has attained a high degree of perfection in U.S.A., Canada, […]

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Resistance to Cucumber Green Mottle Mosaic Virus (CGMMV) in Muskmelon

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 10:58-59 (article 31) 1987 L. Rajamony, T. A. More, and V. S. Seshadri Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012, India A. Varma Division of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110012, India A sap transmissible virus causing mild mosaic of muskmelon was identified as […]

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Association of Fruit Quality with Seed Characters and Oil and Protein Content of Muskmelon Seeds

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 7:46-48 (article 21) 1984 T. A. More and V. S. Seshadri Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India Seeds of certain cucurbits are well known sources of oil and protein, although none have been used commercially (1). Madaan et al. (3) reported that muskmelon seeds are […]

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Chiasma Frequency in Different Sex Forms of Muskmelon

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:54-56 (article 28) 1983 C. Ramachandran, V. S. Seshadri and R. A. Pai Divisions of Vegetable and Floriculture and Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi-110 012- India The pairing behavior of chromosomes at meiosis is closely associated with recombination. Chiasma frequency is a cytological measure of such recombinations. The relationship […]

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