Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:6-8 (article 4) 1980 B.F. George Heinz, U.S.A., Tracy, CA 95376 H.M. Munger Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 The cream mature fruit color, associated with the white spine allele (b), is preferred by pickle processors over the orange mature fruit color associated with the black spine allele (B). However, many seedsmen […]
Cucumber Reports
Screening Cucumbers for Resistance to the Vegetable Leafminer
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:5-6 (article 3) 1980 Gwendolyn Eason, G.C. Kennedy, and R.L. Lower North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27650, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Effective chemical control of the pickleworm and cucumber beetle has reduced natural populations of wasp species which formerly kept the vegetable leafminer, Liriomyza sativae Blanchard, under biological control (2,3,4). Host […]
Rosette, A Spontaneous Cucumber Mutant Arising from Cucumber-Muskmelon Mentor Pollination
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:4 (article 2) 1980 A.C. de Ruiter and B.J. van der Knap DeRuiterzonen Seed Co., Bleiswijk, The Netherlands R.W. Robinson New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Station, Geneva, NY 14456 An interesting variant, given the acronym “megurk” from the combined Dutch words for cucumber and muskmelon, was obtained when cucumber plants […]
In vitro adventitious bud formation on seedling and embryo explants of Cucumis sativus L.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 3:2-4 (article 1) 1980 J.B.M. Custers and J.H.W. Bergervoet Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, The Netherlands We have previously reported on the effects of illumination, explant position, and explant polarity on adventitious bud formation of seedling explants of Cucumis sativus cv. ‘Hokus’ (1). This paper reports on experiments on explant length, seedling […]
1980 Cucumber Report
Report No. 3 Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) In vitro adventitious bud formation on seedling and embryo explants of Cucumis sativus L. J.B.M. Custers and J.H.W. Bergervoet (The Netherlands) CGC 3:2-4 (1980) Rosette, a spontaneous cucumber mutant arising from cucumber- muskmelon mentor pollination A.C. de Ruiter, B.J. van der Knap and R. W. Robinson (The Netherlands and USA) CGC 3:4 […]
Isozyme Analysis of the Megurk
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 2:17-18 (article 11) 1979 R. W. Robinson, J. T. Puchalski and A. C. de Ruiter New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, NY 14456 and DeRuiter Zonen, The Netherlands A possible cross between the cucumber and muskmelon has been named the “megurk”, after the Dutch words for melon and cucumber (1). […]
Investigations of the Effects of Plant Type and Morphology of the Cucumber on Infestation by the Pickleworm, Diaphania nitidalis Stoll
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 2:16-17 (article 10) 1979 Terry Lane Pulliam and R. L. Lower Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27650 E. V. Wann U. S. Vegetable Laboratory, USDA, SEA, Charleston, SC 29407 Seven plant types of ‘Addis’, a pickling cucumber cultivar, five plant introductions, tetraploid lines, and other lines […]
Silver Compounds Inducing Male Flowers in Gynoecious Cucumbers
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 2:14-15 (article 9) 1979 A. P. M. den Nijs and D. L. Visser Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, The Netherlands Silver nitrate is now used widely in the greenhouse in The Netherlands. Occasionally, however, the treatment with AgNO3 results in severe burning and even loss of plants, especially when conditions […]
Low Temperature Adapted Slicing Cucumbers Release
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 2:13 (article 8) 1979 A. P. M. den Nijs Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, Wageningen, The Netherlands The Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding (IVT) has since 1974 attempted to adapt slicing cucumbers for winter/spring glasshouse cultivation to lower temperatures. Fuel costs take a major share of total production expenses so that […]
Interspecific Grafting to Promote Flowering in Cucumis hardwickii
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 2:11-12 (article 7) 1979 J. Nienhuis and R. L. Lower University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 D. M. Pharr North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27650 Cucumis hardwickii Royle is thought to be either a feral or progenitor species of the cultivated cucumber, C. sativus L. It is currently being evaluated in our breeding […]