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• Introduction
  • Comments from the CGC Coordinating Committee
  • Comments from the CGC Gene List Committee
  • Comments from the CGC Gene Curators
  • 14th Annual CGC Business Meeting (November 1990)
  • Upcoming Meetings of Interest to CGC Members
• Cucumber (Cucumis sativus)
  1. A brief history of the development of cucumber cultivars in the U.S.
     Todd C. Wehner and Richard W. Robinson (USA)
  2. Cucumber cultivar improvement in the People's Republic of China
     Hongwen Cui and Xingping Zhang (P.R. China)
  3. A cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) mutant with yellow stem and leaf petioles
     M. Rucinska, K. Niemirowicz-Szczytt and A. Korzeniewska (Poland)
  4. Some relationships among fruit and seed properties in seed- bearing cucumbers of different types
     P. Milotay, L. Kecskemeti and I. Cserni (Hungary)
  5. Evaluation of seed yield of pickling and slicing cucumbers in the field affected by year and plant density
     P. Milotay and S.A. Hodosy (Hungary)
  6. Crop loss to 14 diseases in cucumber in North Carolina for 1983 to 1988
     Paul C. St. Arnand and Todd C. Wehner (USA)
  7. Cucumber disease control in Wisconsin
     Michael Havey (USA)
  8. Correlation of shoot weight and root galling in Cucumis spp. inoculated with root-knot nematodes
     Todd C. Wehner, S. Alan Walters and Kenneth R. Barker (USA)
  9. Screening of the cucumber germplasm collection for tolerance to clomazone herbicide
     J. Staub, L. Crubaugh, H. Baumgartner and H. Hopen (USA)
  10. A multivariate re-evaluation of biochemical genetic diversity in Cucumis sativus L.
      L.D. Knerr and J.E. Staub (USA)
  11. Preliminary Studies on Cucumis sativus var. xishuangbannanesis
      S.L. Yang, H. Pu, P.Y. Liu and Terence W. Walters (P.R. China & USA)
  12. Mutants induced by pollen irradiation in cucumber
      Shuichi Iida and Etuo Amano (Japan)
  13. Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) variants resistant to metribuzin or linuron are not viable
      S. Malepszy, K. Witkowski and S. Zgagacz (Poland)
• Melon (Cucumis melo)
  14. Nomenclature of Cucumis melo L.
      H.M. Munger and R.W. Robinson (USA)
  15. Two virescent mutants in melon (Cucumis melo)
      M. Pitrat, G. Risser, C. Ferriere, C. Olivier and M. Ricard (France)
  16. A rapid and sensitive method for evaluation of melon resistance to Sphaerotheca fuliginea
      Elena Floris and Jose Ma Alvarez (Spain)
  17. Resistance to Acremonium sp. in Spanish landraces of melon
      J.Garcia-Jimenez, A. Alfaro, J. Esteva, F. Nuez and M.T. Velazquez (Spain)
  18. Potential sources of resistance to lettuce infectious yellows in melon
      James D. McCreight (USA)
  19. Progress in breeding melons for watermelon mosaic resistance
      Henry M. Munger (USA)
  20. Field screening of melon cultigens for multiple race resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis
      Timothy J Ng and J.G. Kantzes (USA)
  21. Screening of domestic and wild Cucumis melo germplasm for resistance to the yellow-stunting disorder in the United Arab Emirates
      A.A. Hassan, H.H. Al-Masri, U.A. Obaji, M.S. Wafi, N.E. Quronfilah and M.A. Al-Rays (U.A.E.)
  22. Search for sources of resistance to a whitefly transmitted yellowing disease in melon
      F. Nuez, J. Esteva, C. Soria and M.L. Gomez-Guillamon (Spain)
  23. Reproductive patterns of three melon cultivars in response to temperature accumulation
      James R. Dunlap and Stephen J. Maas (USA)
  24. Pollen competition in melon and effects on seed and fruit vigor
      Carl D. Clayberg (USA)
  25. Techniques to overcome barrier of interspecific hybridization in Cucumis
      M. Chatterjee and T.A. More (India)
  26. Interspecific hybridization in Cucumis spp.
      M. Chatterjee and T.A. More (India)
  27. Organogenic and embryogenic potential of several commercial lines of Cucumis melo L.
      M. Bordas, V. Moreno and L.A. Roig (Spain)
  28. Preliminary studies on the growth and organogenic response of cotyledon-derived calli of Cucumis myriocarpus Naud.
      R. Santana, L.A. Roig and V. Moreno (Spain)
  29. Plant regeneration of protoplasts from different cultivars, of melon (Cucumis melo)
      G.S. Bokelmann, C.I. Jarl and A.J. Kool (Netherlands)
  30. Selective methods for the recovery of somatic hybrids of Cucumis melo x C. metuliferus and C. sativus x C. metuliferus
      M. Dabauza, L.A. Roig and V. Moreno (Spain)
• Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
  31. Late male fertility in a glabrous, male-sterile (gms) watermelon line
      B.B. Rhodes (USA)
  32. Segregation data suggest male sterility genes gms and ms in watermelon are not in the same linkage group
      B.A. Murdock, N.H. Ferguson and B.B. Rhodes (USA)
  33. R309, a selection of Citrullus colocynthis with multigenic resistance to Colletotrichum lagenarium race 2
      S.L. Love and B.B. Rhodes (USA)
  34. Screening of domestic and wild Citrullus germplasm for resistance to the yellow-stunting disorder in the United Arab Emirates
      A.A. Hassan, N.E. Quronfilah, U.A. Obaji, M.A. Al-Rays and M.S. Wafi (U.A.E.)
  35. A strategy toward varietal resistance to watermelon fruit blotch
      B.B. Rhodes, N.V. Desamero and Xingping Zhang (USA and P.R. China)
  36. Allozyme diversity at the Pgi-2 locus in landraces of Citrullus lanatus from Zimbabwe
      D. Benscher and R. Provvidenti (USA)
  37. Plant regeneration from callus cultures of Citrullus colocynthis
      T.W. Frazier and J.O. Kuti (USA)
  38. Obtention of haploid plants induced by irradiated pollen in watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
      N. Gursoz, K. Abak, M. Pitrat, J.C. Rode and R. Dumas de Vaulx (Turkey and France)
• Squash and Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.)
  39. Fused vein trait in Cucurbita pepo L.
      R. Bruce Carle and J. Brent Loy (USA)
  40. Expression of the B genes in Cucurbita
      Oved Shifriss (USA)
  41. The two B genes of Cucurbita are unlinked
      Oved Shifriss (USA)
  42. Resistance to papaya ringspot virus-W, zucchini yellow mosaic virus, and watermelon mosaic virus-2 in C. maxima
      Mark E. Herrington, Svenning Prytz, Peter Brown, D.M. Persley and R. Greber (Australia)
  43. Reaction of Cucurbita pepo L. cv. Cinderella to strains of cucumber mosaic virus
      T.A. Zitter, D.A.C. Pink and D.G.A. Walkey (USA and United Kingdom)
• Gene Lists and Germplasm
  44. Gene list for watermelon
      Warren Henderson (USA)
  45. Linkage groups in watermelon
      Warren Henderson (USA)
  46. Gene nomenclature for the Cucurbitaceae
      CGC Gene List Committee
  47. Stocks and Germplasm Desired or for Exchange
• Appendices
  • CGC 1991 Membership Directory
  • Geographic distribution of CGC members in the United States
  • Geographic distribution of CGC members in countries other than the United States
  • Covenant and By-Laws of the Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative
  • CGC Financial Statement (31 December 1990)