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 Watermelon
Breeding Program Overview - 2003
The North Carolina State University watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
breeding program is currently involved in several areas of research,
as shown below:
- Resistance to PRSV-W and ZYMV
- Nihat Guner, Todd Wehner, and Zvezdana Pesic-VanEsbroeck
- Develop screening methods for testing watermelon for virus resistance
- Screen the watermelon germplasm collection
- Determine the inheritance of resistance; find molecular markers
- Develop resistant inbred lines
- Resistance to gummy stem blight
- Gabriele Gusmini, Todd Wehner, and Gerald Holmes
- Develop screening methods for testing watermelon for virus
resistance
- Screen the watermelon germplasm collection
- Determine the inheritance of resistance; find molecular markers
- Develop resistant inbred lines
- Determine the value of resistance with and without fungicide
application
- Yield improvement
- Gabriele Gusmini, Melisa Crane, and Todd Wehner
- Determine suitability of single-plant hills for yield selection
- Determine optimum plot size
- Measure border effects in single- and multiple-row plots
- Determine the heritability of yield
- Screen the watermelon germplasm collection
- Canary yellow and bright orange flesh color
- Todd Wehner and Tammy Ellington
- Evaluate and release breeding lines with yield, earliness, quality
- Other studies
- Determine which cultivars are suitable for watermelon rind pickles
- Collect and evaluate all available watermelon gene mutants
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