2024 Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report #47

CGC47 (2024) Complete Report Individual Reports: Tunisian Cucurbits: A Reservoir of Genetic Diversity for Sustainable Agriculture. Hela Chikh-Rouhou and Ana Garcés-Claver Cucumis bisexualis, Buried in the Taxonomic Wastebasker C. melo subsp. agrestis  is the Correct Name for Mapao Egg, Hermaphrodite Line Y101, and Weedy Melon UT1, and Helps Focus on Trait Evolution and Domestication of […]

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2022 Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report #45

Special Edition – 2022 Gene List for Melon Catherine Dogimont and Nebahat Sari Page Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………. 1 Host Plant Resistance Genes………………………………………………………………………….. 1 Resistance to Viral Diseases………………………………………………………………….. 2 Insect Resistance……………………………………………………………………………… 5 Resistance to Fungal Diseases……………………………………………..………………… 5 Oomycete Resistance…………………………………………………………………………. 7 Bacterial Disease Resistance…………………………………………………………………. 8 Abiotic Stress Tolerance Genes………………………………………………………………………. 8 Seed and Seedling Genes……………………………………………………………………………… 8 Leaf and Foliage Genes…………………………………………………………………………….…. […]

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2021 Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report #44

CGC 44 (2021) Table of Contents Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) and related species 1. Citrullus Germplasm Diversity in Tunisia: An Overview.  Hela Chikh-Rouhou and Ana Garcés-Claver 4. Citrullus naudinianus Genome Assembly. Robert L. Jarret, Olga Dudchenko, David Weisz, Ruqayya Khan and Erez L. Aiden Melon (Cucumis melo) 7. Melon Germplasm from Tunisia with Immense Breeding Value.  […]

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2017 Gene List for Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 39-40: 2017 Cucumber Gene Catalog Yiqun Weng USDA-ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit, Horticulture Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695 Introduction This is an update of the 2010 version of Cucumber Gene List (Call and Wehner 2010). […]

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2015 Gene List for Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 28-29: 2015 Shengping Zhang Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 U.S.A. Introduction This is the latest version of the gene list for cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. ). In addition to morphological and resistance genes, this list includes […]

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2013 Gene List for Other Genera of Cucurbitaceae

Kyle M. VandenLangenberg and Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Introduction The Cucurbitaceae includes many important vegetable species, including cucumber, melon and watermelon. Those are major crop species originally from the Old World: cucumber from India; melon and watermelon from Africa (Wehner and Maynard, 2003). However, there […]

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2011 Gene List for Melon

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 33 – 34  (2010-2011) by Catherine Dogimont, Michel Pitrat and James D. McCreight Centre de Recherches Agronomiques de Avignon, Stat. d’Amerlior. des Plantes Mar. Domaine St. Maurice, Montfavet 84140 France USDA-ARS, Research Station, 1636 East Alisal St., Salinas, CA 93905-3018 USA Gene lists of melon have been published previously, the last […]

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2010 Gene List for Cucumber

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 33-34: 69-103 (article 23) 2010-2011 Adam D. Call and Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 U.S.A. Introduction 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 […]

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2009 Gene List for Squash

Harry S. Paris A.R.O., Newe Ya’ar Research Center, Ramat Yishay 30-095 (Israel) Eileen Kabelka University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl 32611 (U.S.A.) The genus Cucurbita L. contains 12 or 13 species (50).  As far as is known, all have a complement of 20 pairs of chromosomes (2n = 40). This gene list for Cucurbita contains detailed sources of information, being […]

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