Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative

Report No. 16

July 1993

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
  • 16th Annual CGC Business Meeting
  • 1992 Cucurbit Conference
  • 1993 Watermelon Research Group Meeting
  • US Cucurbit Crop Advisory Committee 1992-93 Update
  • Upcoming Meetings of Interest to Cucurbit Researchers
  • Cucurbitaceae '94
• Cucumber (Cucumis sativus)
  1. Correlations between years for foliar gummy stem blight disease ratings on field grown cucumbers
     Paul C. St. Amand and Todd C. Wehner (USA)
  2. Turgid flowers are essential for good fruit and seed set in cucumber
     R. Szegedi, I. Csernia and P. Milotay (Hungary)
  3. Vine rolling vs. conventional multiple harvest of cucumbers in North Carolina
     Todd C. Wehner and Conrad H. Miller (USA)
  4. Observations in fruit netting in cucumber
     Michael S. Uchneat and Todd C. Wehner (USA)
  5. Leaf structure and photosynthetic relations in Cucumis sativus var. sativus and Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii
     J.E. Staub and B.E. Struckmeyer (USA)
  6. Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) induced mutations: A Phaseolus leaf mutant
     M. Rucinska, E. Bergier, K. Niemirowicz-Szczytt and A. Korzeniewska (Poland)
  7. Independence of fruit length and 10 other characters in cucumber
     Nick E. Fanourakis (Greece)
  8. Diallel analysis of cucumber germination at optimum and suboptimal temperatures
     P. Milotay (Hungary)
  9. Application of factor analysis to cucumber breeding
     Meng Zhang and Hongwen Cui (P.R. China)
  10. Application of narrow sense canonical characters to cucumber breeding
      Hongwen Cui and Yongtao Qi (P.R. China)
• Melon (Cucumis melo)
  11. Cucumis germplasm: 1992 collection expedition in India
      J.D. McCreight, J.E. Staub, N.M. Koppar and U.C. Srivastaba (USA and India)
  12. Resistance to melon dieback in Spanish landraces of melon
      F. Nuez and J. Esteva (Spain)
  13. Club mildew: working group on resistance of melon to powder mildew
      James D. McCreight and Michel Pitrat (USA and France)
  14. Downy mildew (Pseudoperonospora cubensis B & C) resistance in melon (Cucumis melo L.)
      R.G. Somkuwar and T.A. More (India)
  15. Gene for resistance to fusarium wilt race 1 in Oriental pickling melon
      Harry S. Paris, Ron Cohen, Yael Danin-Poleg and Shoshanna Schreiber (Israel)
  16. Breeding and development of cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV) resistant lines in melon (Cucumis melo L.)
      T.A. More, A. Varma, V.S. Seshadri, R.G. Somkuwar and L. Rajamony (India)
  17. The role of viruses in sudden wilt of melons in New York
      Henry M. Munger (USA)
  18. Screening of melons for sweetpotato whitefly resistance: 1992
      James D. McCreight (USA)
  19. Genotypic control of regeneration potential in Cucumis melo
      J. Jain and T.A. More (India)
• Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
  20. Inheritance of resistance to races 0, 1 and 2 of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. niveum in watermelon (Citrullus sp. PI 296341)
      Xingping Zhang and Bill Rhodes (USA)
  21. Male sterile, ms, in watermelon not linked to delayed green, dg and I-dg
      Xingping Zhang and Bill Rhodes (USA)
  22. Fertility shift in an in vitro regenerated male- sterile line in watermelon
      Xingping Zhang and Bill Rhodes (USA)
  23. Protoplast isolation and culture of watermelon cotyledons
      Caiping Ma, X.P. Zhang, B.B. Rhodes and J.W. Adelberg (USA)
• Squash and Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.)
  24. Genetic parthenocarpy in Cucurbita pepo L.
      R.W. Robinson (USA)
  25. Productivity of naked seed squash, Cucurbita pepo L.
      Warid A. Warid, Jaime J. Martinez and Juan M. Loaiza (Mexico)
  26. The chromoplast ultrastructure of two isogenic lines of Cucurbita pepo fruits at different developmental stages
      H.T. Lim and C.D. Boyer (Rep. Korea and USA)
  27. A case of extremely low expressivity of gene B2 in C. moschata
      Oved Shifriss (USA)
  28. Inheritance of immature fruit color in C. moschata
      Antonio I.I. Cardosa, Paulo T. Della Vecchia and Norberto Silva (Brazil)
  29. Breeding bush types of C. moschata with field resistance to PRSV-W
      Paulo T. Della Vecchia, Pedro Terenciano S. and Amadeu Terenciano (Brazil)
  30. Powdery and down mildew resistance in Cucurbita moschata accessions
      Linda Wessel-Beaver (USA)
  31. Leaf silvering of squash: a brief review
      Harry S. Paris (Israel)
• Other Genera and Species
  32. Crossability between Momordica charantia and Momordica dioica
      M. Abdul Vahab and K.V. Peter (India)
  33. Preliminary screening of cucurbits species for Bemisia tabaci Genn. whitefly resistance
      V. Moreno, J.L. Gomez Aguilera, C. Guerau de Arellano and L.A. Roig (Spain)
• Gene Lists and Germplasm
  34. Cucumber, melon and squash germplasm from the Cornell collection
      Molly Kyle, George Moriarty and Henry M. Munger (USA)
  35. Gene list update for cucumber
      Todd C. Wehner (USA)
  36. Gene nomenclature for the Cucurbitaceae
      CGC Gene List Committee
• Appendices
  • 1993 CGC membership directory
  • Geographical distribution of CGC members in the USA
  • Geographical distribution of CGC members outside the USA
  • Covenant and by-laws of the Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative
  • CGC Financial Statement (31 December 1992)