Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative

Report No. 12

July 1989

Table of Contents (article titles linked to html files)

• Introduction
  • Comments from the CGC Coordinating Committee
  • Comments from the CGC Gene List Committee
  • Comments from the CGC Gene Curators
  • Report of the Twelfth Annual CGC Business Meeting
  • Cucurbitaceae '89: Evaluation and Enhancement of Cucurbit Germplasm
  • Report from the 1989 Watermelon Workshop
  • US Cucurbit Crop Advisory Committee Update
  • Future Cucurbit Meetings for 1989-90
  • Corrigenda
• Cucumber (Cucumis sativus)
  1. Alternaria alternata f. sp. cucurbitae on cucumber and other cucurbits
     D.J. Vakalounakis (Greece)
  2. Toxins: potential screening aid for selecting anthracnose resistance in cucumbers
     D.C. Linde, J.M. Shively and B.B. Rhodes (USA)
  3. Tolerance of cucumber to chloramben herbicide
     J.E. Staub and L.K. Crubaugh (USA)
  4. Cucumber yield improvement through breeding in the Southeast U.S.A.
     T.C. Wehner (USA)
  5. Source-sink relationships in cucumber
     J.E. Staub (USA)
  6. Delayed pollination successful for cucumbers in North Carolina greenhouse
     T.C. Wehner and R.R. Horton, Jr. (USA)
  7. Seed weight of cucumber cultivars
     T.C. Wehner and R.R. Horton, Jr. (USA)
  8. Electrophoretic examination of Cucumis sativus L. and Cucumis melo L.
     V.S. Sujatha and V.S. Seshadri (India)
  9. Improvements of in vitro growth of cucumber
     J.B.M. Custers and E.C.P. Verstappen (The Netherlands)
  10. Haploid gynogenesis in Cucumis sativus induced by irradiated pollen
      A. Sauton (France)
  11. Preliminary data on haploid cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) induction
      K. Niemirowicz-Szczytt and R.D. de Vaulx (Poland and France)
  12. Isolation and culture of Cucumis metuliferus protoplasts
      W.H. McCarthy, T.C. Wehner and M.E. Daub (USA)
  13. Isolation and culture of protoplasts of Cucumis sativus and Cucumis metuliferus and methods for their fusion
      F.A. Tang and Z.K. Punja (USA)
  14. Transformation of cucumber with Agrobacterium rhizogenes
      F. van der Mark, J.H.W. Bergervoet and J.B.M. Custers (The Netherlands)
• Melon (Cucumis melo)
  15. Tolerance reaction of muskmelon to inoculation with Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis races 0 and 1
      D. Gabillard and M. Jacquet (France)
  16. Resistance to Sphaerotheca fuliginea (Schlecht. ex Fr.) Poll. in Spanish muskmelon cultivars
      M.L. Gomez-Guillamon and J.A. Tores (Spain)
  17. Transmission of the causal agent of muskmelon yellowing disease
      C. Soria and M.L. Gomez-Guillamon (Spain)
  18. Search for sources of resistance to yellowing disease in Cucumis spp.
      C. Soria, M.L. Gomez-Guillamon, J. Esteva and F. Nuez (Spain)
  19. Resistance to yellowing disease in muskmelon
      J. Esteva, F. Nuez and M.L. Gomez-Guillamon (Spain)
  20. A screening procedure for ZYMV resistance in muskmelons
      A.J. Raffo, I.A. Khan, L.F. Lippert, M.O. Hall and G.E. Jones (USA)
  21. Low temperature germination in muskmelon is dominant
      H. Nerson and J.E. Staub (Israel and USA)
  22. Ethylene production by germinating seeds of different sexual genotypes of muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.)
      J. Alvarez (Spain)
  23. Flesh calcium content of group inodorus and group reticulatus muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) fruits
      T.J Ng and V. Carr (USA)
  24. Direct and indirect regeneration of Cucumis melo L. from cotyledon culture
      W.A. Mackay, T. J Ng and F.A. Hammerschlag (USA)
• Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
  25. A second look at the glabrous male-sterile (gms) character in watermelon
      B.B. Rhodes, B.A. Murdock and J.W. Adelberg (USA)
  26. Inheritance of orange flesh color in watermelon
      W.R. Henderson (USA)
  27. Influence of handling and nitrogen nutrition on flowering and growth of watermelon transplants in the greenhouse
      R.N. McArdle (USA)
  28. Studies of watermelon germplasm resources and breeding. III. Correlation between parents and their F1 hybrids, phenotypic correlation among characters, and path analysis
      Zhang Xingping and Wang Ming (P.R. China)
• Squash and Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.)
  29. Cucurbita moschata half-sib families collected in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic
      L. Wessel-Beaver and M.W. Carbonell (USA/Puerto Rico)
  30. Inheritance of mottled leaf in Cucurbita moschata Poir
      A. Ribeiro and C.P. da Costa (Brazil)
  31. List, description, and interactions of the genes affecting fruit color in Cucurbita pepo
      H.S. Paris (Israel)
  32. Relationship between the B genes of two Cucurbita species, II.
      O. Shifriss, R.B. Volin and Tom V. Williams (USA)
  33. Relationship between gene B and gene Ses-B in Cucurbita pepo L.
      O. Shifriss (USA)
  34. Control of chlorophyll during plant development: Hypothesis
      O. Shifriss (USA)
  35. Determination of molecular weight of chloroplast DNA of Cucurbita pepo L. using different restriction enzymes
      H.T. Lim and C. Boyer (USA)
• Other Genera and Species
  36. Taxonomic position of round melon (Praecitrullus fistulosus)
      V.S. Sujatha and V.S. Seshadri (India)
  37. Allozyme studies in the Benincaseae
      D.S. Decker-Walters and T.W. Walters (USA)
• Gene Lists and Germplasm
38. Gene List for Cucumber
    L.K. Pierce and T.C. Wehner (USA)
• Appendices
  • CGC Cumulative Index [Reports 1-11 (1978-88)]
    T.J. Ng (USA)
  • Membership Directory
  • Covenant and By-Laws of the Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative
  • Financial Statement