Preliminary screening of cucurbits species for Bemisia tabaci Genn. whitefly resistance

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 16:87-89 (article 33) 1993 V. Moreno, J.L. Gomez Agulera, C. Guerau de Arellano and L.A. Roig Plant Cell & Tissue Laboratory, Biotechnology Department, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. C.Camino de Vera, 14.46022-Valencia (Spain) The majority of the Spanish productionof early cucurbits dedicated to the foreign markets is being produced in greenhouses in […]

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Crossability between Momordica charantia and Momordica dioica

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 16:84-86 (article 32) 1993 M. Abdul Vahab and K.V. Peter College of Horticulture, Vellanikkara, India – 680 654 Bittergourd (Momordica charantia) is an important fruit vegetable in the warm humid tropics, grown throughout the year. Preference for this vegetable varies highly with the extent of bitterness. In the present study an […]

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Some considerations about expression of marker genes in experiments of genetic transformation in Cucumis anguria var longipes by coculturing cotyledon explants with Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:97-101 (article 37) 1992 R. Santana, V. Moreno and L.A. Roig Plant Cell & Tissue Culture Laboratory. Biotechnology Department, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. Camino de Vera, 14. 46022-Valencia (Spain) Introduction Cucumis anguria var longipes is a wild cucurbitaceous species in which resistance to ‘yellowing virus disease’, cucumber green mottle mosaic virus, […]

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Allozyme Studies in the Benincaseae

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 12:89-90 (article 37) 1989 D.S. Decker-Walters and T.W. Walters Department of Botany, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G, 2W1, Canada We employed starch gel electrophoresis to evaluate allozyme activity and variation in six genera in the tribe Benincaseae (Cucurbitaceae). Germplasm accessions of the domesticated species, Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn. (winter-melon), Citrullus […]

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Taxonomic Position of Round Melon (Praecitrullus fistulosus)

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 12:86-88 (article 36) 1989 V.S. Sujatha and V.S. Seshadri Division of Vegetable Crops, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India Round melon or ‘tinda’ is an Asian cucurbit having a chromosome number of x=12. This taxon was earlier considered as a botanical variety of watermelon, Citrullus lanatus (x=11). Pangalo (8), […]

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1988 Other Cucurbit Species Reports

Report No. 11 Other Cucurbit Genera and Species Pathogenicity of Erysiphe cichoracearum to cucurbits Yigal Cohen and Helena Eyal (Bar-Ilan Universtiy, Ramat-Gan, Israel) CGC 11:87-90 (1988) Salinity responses among wild cucurbits G. Anastasio, G. Palomarea, F. Nuez (Universidad Politecnica, Valencia, Spain), M.S. Catala and J. Costa (CRIA La Alberca, Murcia, Spain) CGC 11:91-92 (1988) 1987 germplasm collections […]

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1987 Germplasm Collections of Cultivated Cucurbits from China and Hong Kong

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 11:93-94 (article 39) 1988 D.S. Decker-Walters and T.W. Walters Department of Botany, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada During the last week of May and the first week of June 1987. we visited five cities (Beijing, Xi’an, Guilin, Yangshou, and Guangzhou) in the People’s Republic of China and Hong […]

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