Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative

Report No. 7

July 1984

Table of Contents (article titles linked to html files)

• Introduction
  • Resolution and Acknowledgment
  • Report of Seventh Annual Meeting
  • Announcement of Eighth Annual Meeting
  • Comments
  • Erratum
• Cucumber (Cucumis sativus)
  1. Effects of the determinate locus on number of lateral branches in crosses between four cucumber lines and Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii
     D.E. Delaney and R.L. Lower (USA)
  2. Facilitation of self-pollination in gynoecious cucumber with silver nitrate treatment of cuttings
     Soo-Nyeon Kwack and Kunimitsu Fujieda (Japan)
  3. Pickling cucumber inbred line development by full-sib family selection II
     K. Lertrat and R.L. Lower (USA)
  4. Pickling cucumber population improvement for increased fruit yield II
     K. Lertrat and R.L. Lower (USA)
  5. Chlorflurenol-induced seedcoat development in parthenocarpic pickling cucumbers
     A.P.M. den Nijs and G. de Wolf (The Netherlands)
  6. Improving the fertility of tetraploid cucumbers
     A.P.M. den Nijs and D.L. Visser (The Netherlands)
  7. Effect of length of vegetative phase on total dry matter production and its partitioning
     D.R. Ramirez and T.C. Wehner (USA)
  8. Growth analysis of three cucumber lines differing in plant habit and yield
     D.R. Ramirez and T.C. Wehner (USA)
  9. Early generation testing in cucumber
     D.B. Rubino and T.C. Wehner (USA)
  10. Effect of inbreeding on horticultural performance of cucumber families developed from a variable population
      D.B. Rubino and T.C. Wehner (USA)
  11. Evaluation of screening methods and sources of resistance for Rhizoctonia fruit rot in cucumber
      J.T. Sloane, T.C. Wehner, S.F. Jenkins, Jr,. and B. Graves (USA)
  12. Heritability of resistance to Rhizoctonia fruit rot in a wide base cucumber population
      J.T. Sloane and T.C. Wehner (USA)
  13. Electrophoretic comparison of six species of Cucumis
      J.E. Staub, R.S. Kupper and T.C. Wehner (USA)
  14. Effect of end borders on plot yield of once-over harvested pickling and fresh-market cucumbers
      T.C. Wehner (USA)
  15. Variation for yield within locations in homogeneous and heterogeneous cucumber populations
      T.C. Wehner (USA)
  16. Optimum plot size for once-over harvest of pickling and fresh-market cucumbers
      T.C. Wehner and W.H. Swallow (USA)
• Melon (Cucumis melo)
  17. Evaluating downy mildew resistance in Cucumis melo L.
      Y. Cohen, H. Eyal, A. Cohen and C.E. Thomas (Israel and USA)
  18. Climacteric and nonclimacteric ripening in Cucumis melo
      Stephen Kendall and T. Ng (USA)
  19. Interaction of zucchini yellow mosaic virus strains and muskmelon lines
      H. Lecoq and M. Pitrat (France)
  20. Evidence of a recessive powdery mildew resistance gene in muskmelon PI 414723
      J.D. McCreight (USA)
  21. Association of fruit quality with seed characters and oil and protein content of muskmelon seeds
      T.A. More and V.S. Seshadri (India)
  22. Effect of methodology on expression of intercultivar differences in response to NaCl stress in melons
      H. Nerson, H.S. Paris, Z. Karchi, Y. Burger and M. Edelstein (Israel)
  23. Linkage studies in muskmelon
      M. Pitrat (France)
  24. Use of n-pentane for mixing melon pollen
      Georgette Risser and J.C. Rode (France)
  25. Inoculation conditions to evaluate resistance to Alternaria cucumerina (Ellis & Everh.) Elliot in muskmelon
      Claude E. Thomas (USA)
  26. The importance of monitoring races of powdery mildew on muskmelon
      C.E. Thomas, A.N. Kishaba, J.D. McCreight and P.E. Nugent (USA)
• Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
27. A preliminary report on screening watermelons for resistance to watermelon mosaic viruses 1 and 2
    H.M. Munger, T. A. More and S. Awni (USA)
• Squash and pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.)
  28. Independence of Genes Ses-B and M in Cucurbita pepo L.
      L.N. Bloksberg and O. Shifriss (USA)
  29. Potential of restriction endonuclease analysis of chloroplast DNA for the determination of phytogenetic relationships among members of Cucurbitaceae
      J.A. Juvik and J.D. Palmer (USA)
  30. Embryo culture of Cucurbita andreana and C. martinezii
      A.B. Malter, R.J. Lebowitz and J. A. Juvik (USA)
  31. Tolerance of Cucurbita spp. to squash leaf curl
      J.D. McCreight (USA)
  32. Natural hybridization of wild Cucurbita sororia group and domesticated C. mixta in Southern Sonora, Mexico
      Laura C. Merrick and Gary P. Nabhan (USA)
  33. Evidence of gene flow between cultivated Cucurbita mixta and a field edge population of wild Cucurbita at Onavas, Sonora
      Gary P. Nabhan (USA)
  34. Epidemics of zucchini yellow mosaic virus and other cucurbit viruses in Egypt in the spring of 1983
      R. Provvidenti, H.M. Munger and H.O. Paulus (USA)
  35. Further occurrence of zucchini yellow mosaic virus in the United States
      R. Provvidenti, D. Gonsalves and H.S. Humaydan (USA)
  36. Further notes on the silvery-leaf trait in Cucurbita
      O. Shifriss (USA)
  37. Isozyme studies indicate that the genus Cucurbita is an ancient tetraploid
      N.F. Weeden (USA)
  38. Linkage between an isozyme locus and one of the genes controlling resistance to watermelon mosaic virus 2 in Cucurbita ecuadorensis
      N.F. Weeden, R.W. Robinson and F. Ignart (USA and France)
  39. A nuclear gene codes for the plastid-specific aldolase in Cucurbita species
      N.F. Weeden (USA)
  40. A collection of wild and cultivated Cucurbitaceae from Zambia
      T.W. Whitaker (USA)
• Other Genera and Species
  41. The reliability of a seedling test for resistance to root- knot nematodes in cucurbits
      I.W. Boukema, G.T.M. Reuling and K. Hofman (The Netherlands)
  42. Embryo size in Cucumis sativus x C. melo as affected by irradiation of the pollen and genotype of the female parent
      J.B.M. Custers and J.H.W. Bergervoet (The Netherlands)
  43. Trisomic identification of linkage groups of Cucurbita
      J.D. Graham, N.F. Weeden and R.W. Robinson (USA)
  44. Nuclear DNA variation in Cucumis species
      C. Ramachandran (United Kingdom)
  45. Monogenic inheritance of andromonoecy in tetraploid Cucumis ficifolius A. Rich
      D.L. Visser and A.P.M. den Nijs (The Netherlands)
• Appendices
  • Special Request
  • Covenant and By-Laws
  • CGC Membership Directory
  • CGC Membership Directory - Non-USA
  • Financial Statement