Effects of Calcium on Cucumber(Cucumis sativus L.) Seed Germination, Seed Storage and Seedling Growth

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 19:23-24 (article 8) 1996 Huanwen Meng, Zhihui Cheng and Hongwen Cui Department Horticulture, Northwestern Agricultural University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P.R. China Introduction. Calcium is not only a macroelement, but one of the major regulators of plant metabolism (2,3). It has been reported that soaking peanut seeds with 30 mmol/l of Ca2+ […]

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Correlation between Leaf Size and Horticultural Characteristics in Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 19:21-22 (article 7) 1996 H. Mizusawa, N. Hirama and S. Matsurra Tohoku Seed Co. 1625, Himuro, Nishihara, Utsunomiya 321-32 Japan The little-leaf character was discovered in an inbred selection in Arkansas (1) and it was determined that this characteristic was controlled by single recessive genet at locus ll (3). Little-leaf (ll […]

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Once-over Harvest Yield of Cucumber Hybrids Made with a Determinate Parent

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 19:17-20 (article 6) 1996 Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Richard L. Lower Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) plant architecture offers new ways of improving cultivar performance in once-over harvest. Besides the indeterminate (normal) type, […]

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Underestimation of Detection of QTLs When Using Dominant Genetic Makers: The Case of RAPDs in Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 19:13-16 (article 5) 1996 F.C. Serquen and J.E. Staub Vegetable Crops Research, USDA/ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706 Introduction. Our laboratory has been interested in using random amplified polymorphic DNAs (RAPDs) as a tool for marker-assisted selection (MAS) in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). Phenotype selection based on traits […]

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Environment can Affect the Placement of Discrete Traits on Genetic Maps: The Case of Sex Expression in Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 19:10-12 (article 4) 1996 F.C. Serquen and J.E. Staub Vegetable Crops Research, USDA/ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A. Introduction. Several genetic maps have been constructed in cucumber using morphological and biochemical markers (3,4). These maps have incorporated discrete, qualitative loci which have lead to a better understanding […]

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Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Mutants Segregating in M2 Generation After Gamma-Ray Seed and Pollen Irradiation

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 19:4-6 (article 2) 1996 O. Kawaide and S. Matsuura Tohoku Seed Co., 1625, Himuro, Nishihara, Utsunomiya 321-32, Japan S. Iida Chugoku National Agricultural Experimental Station MAFF, 6-12-1, Nishifukatsu, Fukuyama 721, Japan In Japan, the seeds of some hybrid varieties are produced by hand-pollination using monoecious inbred lines. Since technical errors in […]

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Lost Information

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 19:7-9 (article 3) 1996 J.E. Staub Vegetable Crops Research, USDA/ARS, Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI 53706 U.S.A. The proceedings of the international symposium entitled “Cucurbitaceae ’94: Evaluation and enhancement of cucurbit germplasm” was published in 1995. Information was omitted from a report of the proceedings entitled “Problems associated with […]

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An Induced Mutation in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.): Super Compact

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 19:1-3 (article 1) 1996 K. Niemirowicz-Szczytt, M. Rucinska and A. Korzeniewsia Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology, Warsaw Agricultural University, SGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland A mutant designated as super compact (scp) belongs to the series of mutants (1,3-6) which are currently being maintained in a collection originally developed by B, […]

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Paternal Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 18:31-33 (article 14) 1995 S. Matsuura Tohoku Seed Company, 1625 Himuro, Nishihara, Utsunomiya 321-32, Japan Linkage analysis has been performed in cucumber using RFLP markers and the acr locus (5). At that time, almost all of the RFLP clones segregated in Mendelian ratios, except for two genomic clones (B-174 and P-146) […]

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