Overcoming the Silvering Disorder of Cucurbita

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:70-71 (article 35) 1983 Y. Burger, H.S. Paris, H. Nerson, Z. Karchi and M. Edelstein Division of Vegetable Crops, Agricultural Research Organization, Newe Ya’ar Experiment Station, P. O. Haifa, Israel Silver mottling of leaves is a widely known characteristic of cultivated Cucurbita which is controlled oligogenically. This mottling generally occurs as […]

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Effect of Fruit Thinning on Dry Matter Accumulation and Variability in Cucurbita maxima Winter Squash

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:72-73 (article 36) 1983 Deborah Evans and Brent Loy University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 In breeding efforts to develop small-fruited bush strains of C. maxima winter squash, we have encountered problems in obtaining strains with consistently high dry matter in the pericarp of fruit. Preliminary observations suggested that this […]

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A Report of Cucurbitacin Poisonings in Humans

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:73-74 (article 37) 1983 J. E. Ferguson, D. C. Fischer, and R. L. Metcalf Departments of Entomology and Horticulture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801 The tetracyclic triterpenoid cucurbitacins, bitter substances of the Cucurbitaceae, are highly toxic to mammals with intraperitoneal median lethal dose values for pure Cucs in the mouse […]

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Intense Bitterness in Commercial Zucchini

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:75-76 (article 38) 1983 Mark E. Herrington Redlands Horticultural Research Station, Ormiston, Qld. 4163, Australia Twenty-two cases of food poisoning associated with intensely bitter zucchini were recorded by Queensland health authorities between November, 1981 and December, 1982. In case studies symptoms of illness were apparent 1 to 2 hours after consumption. […]

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Controlling Cucumber Beetles and Corn Rootworm Beetles with Baits of Bitter Cucurbit Fruit and Root

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:79-81 (article 40) 1983 R. L. Metcalf, J. E. Ferguson, Dan Fischer, Richard Lampman and John Andersen Departments of Entomology and Horticulture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois 61801 Wild species of Cucurbitaceae are well known for producing the intensely bitter oxygenated tetracyclic triterpenoids, the cucurbitacins (Cucs). These Cucs are kairomones for […]

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Growth of Parthenocarpic and Seed-bearing Fruit of Zucchini Squash

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 6:84-85 (article 42) 1983 A. P. M. den Nijs and J. Balder Institute for Horticultural Plant Breeding, P. O. Box 16, Wageningen, The Netherlands Large differences in parthenocarpic fruit set amongst zucchini squash cultivars were reported (1). Selection for parthenocarpy was successful and a breeding line with high tendency to parthenocarpic […]

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