Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:9-10 (article 4) 1992 Jonathan R. Schultheis Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 A survey of North Carolina cucumber growers was administered via mail in January and February, 1991 for the 1990 crop of pickling and fresh-market types. The survey encompassed 15 counties, comprising over 90% […]
Cucumber Reports
Cucumber Germplasm Resources in Southwest China
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:7-8 (article 3) 1992 Si-Lin Yang Department of Horticulture, Southwest Agricultural University, CongQing, Sichuan, 60316, People’s Republic of China The majority of Chinese cucumber cultivars of the outdoor type have been grown for fresh consumption in China for well over 2000 years. Only in recent history were the greenhouse and pickling […]
Phylogenetic Relationships Among Several African Cucumis Species: A Working Evolutionary Hypothesis
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:4-6 (article 2) 1992 J.E. Staub and L.D. Knerr Vegetable Crops Research, USDA/ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Phylogenetic models of the genus Cucumis have been constructed based on variation in morphology and geography, cucurbitacins, flavonoids, cytological studies and chromosome banding patterns, cross-compatibility, isozymes, and nuclear DNA. […]
Evaluation of the U.S. Cucumber Germplasm Collection for Tolerance to Soil Moisture Deficit
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:1-3 (article 1) 1992 E. Van Wann U.S.D.A. Agricultural Research Service, South Central Agricultural Research Laboratory, Lane, Oklahoma 74555 One of the objectives of the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) is to evaluate and develop an automated descriptive inventory of all accessions (plant introductions) in the system. The Germplasm Resources […]
1992 Cucumber Reports
1992 Report No. 15 Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) Evaluation of the U.S. cucumber germplasm collection for tolerance to soil moisture deficit E. Van Wann (USA) CGC 15:1-3 (1992) Phylogenetic relationships among several African Cucumis species: A working evolutionary hypothesis J.E. Staub & L.D. Knerr (USA) CGC 15:4-6 (1992) Cucumber germplasm resources in southwest China Si-Lin Yang (P.R. China) […]
A Brief History of the Development of Cucumber Cultivars in the U.S.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:1-4 (article 1) 1991 Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Richard W. Robinson Department of Horticultural Sciences, New York Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, NY 14456 Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) has been grown and bred for centuries. It is mentioned in the Bible and […]
1991 Cucumber Reports
Report No. 14 Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) A brief history of the development of cucumber cultivars in the U.S. Todd C. Wehner and Richard W. Robinson (USA) CGC 14:1-4 (1991) Cucumber cultivar improvement in the People’s Republic of China Hongwen Cui and Xingping Zhang (P.R. China) CGC 14:5-7 (1991) A cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) mutant with yellow […]
Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Variants Resistant to Metribuzin or Linuron are not Viable
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:34-42 (article 13) 1991 S. Malepszy, K. Witkowski and S. Zgagacz Warsaw Agricultural University, Dept. Genetics & Hort. Plant Breeding, Nowoursynowska 166, 02-766 Warszawa, Poland In vitro culture techniques can be employed to improve cucumber (5), including selection of mutants for herbicide resistance. That would be desirable due to high cucumber […]
Mutants Induced by Pollen Irradiation in Cucumber
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:32-33 (article 12) 1991 Shuichi Iida and Etuo Amano Institute of Radiation Breeding, National Institute of Agrobiological Resources, MAFF, P. O. Box 3, Ohmiya-machi, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 319-22, Japan Due to differentiation of male and female flowers and chimerism of mutated sectoring, seed irradiation is not an effective means to obtain induced […]
Preliminary Studies on Cucumis sativus var. xishuangbannanesis
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:29-31 (article 11) 1991 S. L. Yang, H. Pu, P. Y. Liu and Terrence W. Walters Department of Horticulture, Southwest Agricultural University, Bei-bei, Chong-qing Si-chuan, P. R. China 630716 (first, second and third authors); Fairchild Tropical Garden, 11935 Old Cutler Road, Miami, FL 33156 (fourth author) Called “Da huang kua” (big […]