2005 Gene List for Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 28-29: 105-141 (2005-2006) Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University This is the latest version of the gene list for cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). In addition to morphological and resistance genes, this list includes genes that have been cloned from different plant tissues of cucumber. The genes […]

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2001 Cucumber Reports

Report No. 24 Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) Determination of the Crossing Barriers in Hybridization of Cucumis sativus and Cucumis melo V. Ondrej, B. Navrátilová and A. Lebeda (Czech Republic) CGC 24:1-5 (2001) Cucumber Inbred Line USDA 6632E J.E. Staub and L.K. Crubaugh (USA) CGC 24:6-7 (2001) Multiple Shoot Induction from Shoot Tip Explants of Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) A. Vasudevan, […]

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Testing Method and the Correlation Between Fruit Yield and Yield Components in Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 23:16-20 (article 5) 2000 Christopher S. Cramer Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Box 30003, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NB 88003-8003 Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, Box 7609, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Introduction. An alternative to improving fruit yield per se in cucumber (Cucumis sativus […]

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Fruit Yield and Yield Component Correlations of Four Pickling Cucumber Populations

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 23:12-15 (article 4) 2000 Christopher S. Cramer Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Box 30003, New Mexico State University, Las Cruses, NM 88003-0003 Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Introduction. Increased fruit yield has been one of the primary breeding objectives in the development […]

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Response to Phenotypic Selection for Multiple Lateral branching in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 23:8-11 (article 3) 2000 G. Fazio and J.E. Staub USDA-ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Horticulture, 1575 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706 Introduction. The acreage planted for mechanically-harvested cucumbers in the United States has increased 30 to 40% in the last 20 years. Because of rising labor […]

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