Interactive Microcomputer Database for Identification of Cucumis

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:48-50 (article 16) 1992 Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr. USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, Building 265, BARC-East, 10300 Baltimore Boulevard, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2350 U.S.A. Recently a taxonomic monograph (11) of the genus Cucumis Linnaeus (Cucurbitaceae), as it has been circumscribed since its inception (2, 3, 8, 9, 10, […]

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Database of Native Distributions for Cucumis

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:45-47 (article 15) 1992 Joseph H. Kirkbride, Jr. USDA, Agricultural Research Service, Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, Building 265, BARC-East, 10300 Baltimore Boulevard, Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2350 U.S.A. A taxonomic monograph (7) of the genus Cucumis Linnaeus (Cucurbitaceae) was completed, and the morphological, cytological, and macrodistributional data were distributed in a format […]

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Selective Methods for the Recovery of Somatic Hybrids of Cucumis melo x metuliferus and C. sativus x C. metuliferus

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:81-84 (article 30) 1991 M. Dabauza, L.A. Roig and V. Moreno Plant Cell & Tissue Culture Laboratory, Biotechnology Department, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Cno. de Vera, 14, 46020- Valencia (Spain) Introduction Methods for the isolation and culture of Cucumis metuliferus protoplasts have been previously reported by our group (18) and by […]

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Plant Regeneration of Protoplasts from Different Cultivars of Melon (Cucumis melo)

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:78-80 (article 29) 1991 G.S. Bokelmann, C.I. Jarl, and A.J. Kool Zaadunie Research, Plant Biotechnology Div., P.O. Box 26, NL-1600 AA Enkuhuizen, The Netherlands Introduction Successful plant regeneration from explants of melon have been reported by a number of authors (for review see 2). Publications on plant regeneration from protoplasts still […]

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Preliminary Studies on the Growth and Organogenic Response of Cotyledons derived Calli of Cucumis myriocarpus Naud

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:74-77 (article 28) 1991 R.Santana, L. A. Roig and V. Moreno Plant Cell & Tissue Culture Laboratory, Biotechnology Department, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Cno. de Vera, 14 46020-Valencia (Spain) Introduction. cucumis myriocarpus is a cucurbitaceous wild species in which resistances to Tetranychus urticae, CGMMV, powdery mildew ((PM1), and yellowing disease hve […]

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Organogenic and Embryogenic Potential of Several Commercial Lines of Cucumis melo L.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:71-73 (article 27) 1991 M. Bordas, V. Moreno and L.A. Roig Plant Cell and Tissue Culture Laboratory. Department of Biotechnology. E.T.S.I.A. Universidad Politecnica. Camino de Vera 14, 46922-Valencia. Spain Introduction. Availability of efficient methods for plant regeneration of melon is required to take advantage of biotechnological alternatives for crop improvement. A […]

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Interspecific Hybridization in Cucumis spp.

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:69-70 (article 26) 1991 M. Chatterjee and T.A. More Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India 110012 Research work conducted in this Institute revealed that high level resistance to cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV) is not available in cultivated forms of melon (Cucumis melo L.). Nevertheless, […]

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Techniques to Overcome Barrier of Interspecific Hybridization in Cucumis

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:66-68 (article 25) 1991 M. Chatterjee and T. A. More Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India 110012 Our efforts to achieve the interspecific hybrid in Cucumis species through conventional breeding procedures were unsuccessful becaue of the existence of a pre-fertilization barrier. The barrier was characterized by […]

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Pollen Competition in Melon and Effects on Seed and Fruit Vigor

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 14:63-65 (article 24) 1991 Carl D. Clayberg Department of Horticulture, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 665006 Recent research in Cucurbita has indicated that pollen competition can improve seed quality (1). In the course of a breeding program to develop bush melons using the si-1 (short internode) gene (5), I encountered difficulties […]

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