Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative

Report No. 13

July 1990

• Introduction
  • Comments from the CGC Coordinating Committee
  • Comments from the CGC Gene List Committee
  • Comments from the CGC Gene Curators
  • 13th Annual CGC Business Meeting
  • 1989 CGC Fall Meeting
  • US Cucurbit Crop Advisory Committee 1990 Update
  • Cucurbitaceae '89: Evaluation and Enhancement of Cucurbit Germplasm
  • 1990 Watermelon Research Group Workshop
  • 1990 National Cucumber Conference
  • Upcoming meetings of interest to CGC members
• Cucumber (Cucumis sativus)
  1. Cucumber cultivars and breeding lines for the USDA Plant Introduction collection
     T.C. Wehner (USA)
  2. Screening of the US cucumber germplasm collection for heat stress tolerance
     J.E. Staub and A. Krasowska (USA & Poland)
  3. Root knot nematode egg concentration for inoculating Cucumis spp. tests
     T.C. Wehner, S.A. Walters and K.R. Barker (USA)
  4. Resistance of cucumber to the root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne hapla
     S.A. Walters, T.C. Wehner and K.R. Barker (USA)
  5. Breeding cucumbers for fresh-market production in Egypt
     M.I. Metwally and T.C. Wehner (Egypt & USA)
  6. Effect of explant age and growth regulator concentration on adventitious shoot formation from cucumber cotyledonary tissue
     R.M. Cade, T.C. Wehner and F.A. Blazich (USA)
• Melon (Cucumis melo)
  7. Screening wild Cucumis spp. in the field and with artificial seed inoculation against Fusarium oxysporum sp. melonis
     P. Thomas and T.A. More (India)
  8. Evolution of muskmelon virus infection on field crops in the Ebro Valley (Spain)
     M.L. Arteaga and J. Alvarez (Spain)
  9. Further sources of resistance to ZYMV in Cucumis melo
     M.E. Herrington and S. Prytz (Australia)
  10. Relationship between the causal agent of melon yellowing disease in the southeast of Spain and its vector
      C. Soria and M.L. Gomez-Guillamon (Spain)
  11. Host range of the causal agent of melon yellowing disease
      V. Cura, C. Soria and M.L. Gomez-Guillamon (Spain)
  12. Ten interspecific crosses in the genus Cucumis: A preparatory study to seek crosses resistant to melon yellowing disease
      C. Soria, M.L. Gomez-Guillamon, J. Esteva and F. Nuez (Spain)
  13. A fifth gene for male sterility in Cucumis melo
      M. Lecouviour, M. Pitrat and G. Risser (France)
  14. Somatic hybridization of muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) with kiwano (Cucumis metuliferus Naud.) and squash (Cucurbita pepo L.) by protoplast electrofusion
      I. Debeaujon and M. Branchard (France)
• Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
  15. Edible seed watermelons (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai) in Northwest China
      X. Zhang and Y. Jiang (P.R. China)
  16. Nutrients in seeds of edible watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai)
      K. Ma, X. Zhang and M. Wang (P.R. China)
  17. A genetic male-sterile (ms) watermelon from China
      X. Zhang and M. Wang (P.R. China)
  18. Male-sterile (ms) from China is apparently non-allelic to glabrous-male-sterile (gms) watermelon
      B.A. Murdock, N.H. Ferguson and B.B. Rhodes (USA)
  19. Staining procedure for watermelon somatic chromosomes
      H.T. Skorupska and N.G. Allgood (USA)
• Squash and Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.)
  20. Availability and use of interspecific populations involving Cucurbita moschata and C. pepo
      H.M. Munger (USA)
  21. Relationship between the B genes of two Cucurbita species, III.
      O. Shifriss (USA)
  22. Relationship between the B genes of two Cucurbita species, IV.
      O. Shifriss, R.B. Volin and T.V. Williams (USA)
• Gene Lists and Germplasm
  23. Gene list for Cucumis melo L.
      M. Pitrat (France)
  24. Linkage groups in Cucumis melo L.
      M. Pitrat (France)
  25. Watermelon Gene Stocks - 1989
      Bill B. Rhodes (USA)
  26. Gene nomenclature for the Cucurbitaceae
      CGC Gene List Committee
• Appendices
  • Membership Directory
  • Geographical Distribution of CGC Members
  • Covenant and By-Laws of the Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative
  • Financial Statement