Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:45 (article 21) 1983 J. D. McCreight U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, P. O. Box 5098, Salinas, CA 93915 Abnormally long veined plants occurred in 7 of 10 F2 sib progenies from the 11th backcross generation of a cross of ‘PMR 45’ with aphid resistant 90234, derived from PI […]
Melon Reports
Peat Pellet Inoculation: A Potential Rapid Screening Method for Fusarium Resistance in Cucumis melo L.
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:43-44 (article 20) 1983 Richard N. McArdle and Stephen A. Kendall Department of Horticulture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 Greenhouse tests for Fusarium resistance in muskmelon typically involve inoculation by dipping young melon plants into spore suspensions (2, 3) or growing in infested soil (1). These methods are time-intensive, cumbersome, and […]
Field Evaluation of Melon Aphid Resistant Cantaloupe Breeding Lines for Susceptibility to the Cucumber Beetle Complex
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:41-42 (article 19) 1983 A. N. Kishaba, S. Castle, D. Coudriet, and J. D. McCreight U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Boyden Entomology Laboratory, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521 (first, second and third authors) and U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, P. O. Box 5098, Salinas, […]
1983 Melon Report
Report No. 6 Melon (Cucumis melo) Field evaluation of melon aphid resistant cantaloupe breeding lines for susceptibility to the cucumber beetle complex A.N. Kishaba, S. Castle, D. Coudriet and J.D. McCreight (USA) CGC 6:41-42 (1983) Peat pellet inoculation: A potential rapid screening method for Fusarium resistance in Cucumis melo L. Richard N. McArdle and Stephen A. Kendall (USA) CGC […]
Comparison of the Effectiveness of BA and AVG in Promoting Fruit Set in Muskmelon
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 5:23 (article 11) 1982 J. B. Loy University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 The cytokinin N6 – benzyladenine (BA) promotes fruit set in hand-pollinated muskmelon (1). In making our muskmelon pollinations during the summer, we routinely apply 2 µg BA in a lanolin-water paste (7:3 w/v) to the base of ovaries […]
Androecious Sex Form in Muskmelon
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 5:24-25 (article 12) 1982 M. B. Magdum1, N. N. Shinde2, and V. S. Seshadri Division of Vegetable Crops and Floriculture, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012, India Androecious sex form (bearing only staminate flowers) is a rare phenotype in muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) Forster and Bond (1) reported an abrachiate, […]
Response of Muskmelon Cultivars to Bacterial Wilt (Erwinia tracheiphila [E.F. Smith] Holland)
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 5:26-27 (article 13) 1982 K. W. Owens Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 C. E. Peterson U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Bacterial wilt (BW) is a serious disease of muskmelon in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. The disease is caused […]
Further Observations on “Birdsnest” Muskmelons
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 5:28-29 (article 14) 1982 H. S. Paris, Z. Karchi, H. Nelson, M. Edelstein, A. Govers and D. Freudenberg Division of Vegetable Crops, Agricultural Research Organization, Newe Ya’ar Experiment Station, P.O. Haifa, Israel The birdsnest plant type or growth habit of muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) has been described and compared with the familiar […]
Vat and Fn, Two Linked Genes in Muskmelon
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 5:29-30 (article 15) 1982 M. Pitrat1, H. Lecoq2 and G. Risser1 I.N.R.A., B.P. 94, 84140 Montfavet-Avignon, France Many viruses affecting melon are non-persistently aphid transmitted. Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) is probably the most widespread, but Watermelon mosaic 1 and 2 (WMV-1 and WMV-2), and in France a third potyvirus tentatively named […]
Effect of Ethylene on Fruit Set in Emasculated and Non-emasculated Flowers of Muskmelon
Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 5:33-34 (article 17) 1982 C. D. Zack and J. B. Loy University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 Studies by Mann (1) indicated that injury to the flower during emasculation inhibited fruit set. Experiments by Natti and Loy (2) showed that excised emasculated flowers produce 2 to 3 times as much […]