Marlene Taja and Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Introduction The Cucurbitaceae includes many important vegetables 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 are […]
Gene Lists & Germplasm
2007 Gene List for Watermelon
by Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 Introduction Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai) is a major cucurbit crop that accounts for 6.8% of the world area devoted to vegetable crops (FAO, 2002). Watermelon is grown for its fleshy, juicy, and sweet fruit. Mostly eaten fresh, they […]
2006 Gene List for Melon
Gene lists of melon have been published previously, the last one in 2002 (18, 19, 106, 109, 111, 112, 120). They included different types of genes: disease and pest resistance genes, isozymes, leaf, stem, flower, fruit and seed characters… The 2007 list includes a total number of 174 loci, QTLs for 15 disease resistance or […]
2006 Gene Lists and Germplasm
2006 Gene List for Watermelon, 2007 T.C. Wehner (USA) CGC 30:96-120 (2007) Gene Nomenclature for the Cucurbitaceae CGC 30:121 (2007)
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 […]
2004 Gene List for Cucurbita species
Harry S. Paris A.R.O., Newe Ya’ar Research Center, Ramat Yishay 30-095 (Israel) Rebecca Nelson Brown Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331 (U.S.A.) A complete list of genes for Cucurbita species was last published 12 years ago (33). Since then, only updates have been published (72, 73). The genus Cucurbita L. contains 12 or 13 species […]
2003 Gene List for Watermelon
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 26:76-92 (2003) Nihat Guner and Todd C. Wehner Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7609 This is the latest version of the gene list for watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. and Nakai). The watermelon genes were originally organized and summarized by Poole (1944). ). The list has […]
2002 Gene List for Melon
CGC Report 25, 2002 Michel Pitrat INRA, Station de Génétique et d’Amélioration des Fruits et Légumes, Montfavet cedex (France) Gene lists of melon have been published previously, the last one in 1998 (109, 17, 18, 93, 95, 96). They included different types of genes: disease and pest resistance genes, isozymes, leaf, stem, flower, fruit and […]
2001 Gene List for Cucumber
Jiahua Xie and 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.). Complete lists and updates of genes for have been published previously (Pierce and Wehner, 1989; Robinson et al., 1976; Robinson et al., 1982; Wehner, 1993; Wehner and […]
2000 Cucurbita Gene List Update
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 23:137-138 (2000) R.W. Robinson Department of Horticultural Science, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell University, Geneva NY 14456 H.S. Paris Dept. of Vegetable Crops, Agric. Research Organization, New Ya’ar Research Center, P.O. Box 1021, Ramat Yishay, 30-095, Israel Previous lists of Cucurbita genes were published in CGC Rpt. 15: 102-109 (1992) and […]