Private Breeding Programs
The following seed companies are working on cucumber or
watermelon breeding for the U.S. market. As in most industries these
days, many have combined with other seed companies, or have been bought
by agricultural biotechnology or chemical companies.
| Company |
Acquired, merged
with, or evolved from |
Plant breeeder |
| Cucumber |
| Harris
Moran |
Ferry Morse, Joseph Harris, Moran |
Gary Taurick |
Hollar
& Co. |
Hollar |
Qi Zhang |
Nunhems, Sunseeds |
ARCO, Castle, Dessert, Sunseeds, Nunhems |
August Gabert, Michelle Wood |
| Sakata
Seeds |
Agroceres, Alf Christianson, Sakata |
Paulo dellaVecchia |
| Seminis
Vegetable Seeds |
Asgrow Vegetable Seeds (inc. Vlasic
Seeds), Barham Seeds, Bruinsma, California, Choong
Ang, DeVine Ripe/LSL, Genencorp, Hung Nong, Horticeres,
PetoSeed and Royal Sluis |
Nischit
Shetty |
| United
Genetics |
United Genetics |
Ken Owens |
| Watermelon |
| Abbott
and Cobb |
Abbott and Cobb |
Hasib Humaydan |
| Harris
Moran |
Ferry Morse, Joseph Harris, Moran |
Brenda Lanini, Grant
Neppl |
Hollar
& Co. |
Hollar |
Bruce Carle |
Nunhems, Sunseeds |
ARCO, Castle, Dessert, Sunseeds, Nunhems |
Erik deGroot, Roger Chang |
| Sakata
Seeds |
Agroceres, Alf Christianson, Sakata |
Nihat Guner |
| Shamrock
Seeds Inc. |
Shamrock Seeds Inc. |
- |
| Seminis
Vegetable Seeds |
Asgrow Vegetable Seeds (inc. Vlasic
Seeds), Barham Seeds, Bruinsma, California, Choong
Ang, DeVine Ripe/LSL, Genencorp, Hung Nong, Horticeres,
PetoSeed and Royal Sluis |
Benito Juarez, Fred
McCuistion |
| Sugar
Creek |
Sugar Creek |
Glen Price |
| Syngenta, Rogers |
American Sunmelon, Musser, Northrup
King, Rogers, Sluis and Groot |
Xingping Zhang |
| United
Genetics |
United Genetics |
Robert Mahinan, Wei Ouyang |
| U.S.
Seedless |
U.S. Seedless |
Len Cantor |
| Willhite
Seed |
Willhite |
Don Dobbs |
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