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The host range of Pseudoperonospora cubensis, the causal agent of cucurbit downy mildew, includes many taxa of the Cucurbitaceae. Little is known of the interactions of this pathogen with wild and weedy Cucurbita species, the genus encompassing two important crops, pumpkin and squash. Interactions of 97 Cucurbita spp. accessions, mostly wild and weedy forms representing 10 species, with 11 P. cubensis...
Cucurbita pepo is extremely diverse in fruit characteristics. Native to semi-arid and temperate regions of North America, C. pepo was domesticated at least twice, in Mexico over 10,000 years ago and in the United States over 4000 years ago. There is no evidence for the existence of Cucurbita in the Old World prior to 1492. Pumpkins and squash of C. pepo are today found in countries on all...
Of the 13 genes described as affecting fruit color in Cucurbita pepo, one, D (Dark stem), also markedly affects stem color. The D allele confers dark stems and dark intermediate-age fruits, is dominant to the d allele for light stems and fruits, and epistatic to two recessive genes conferring light fruit coloration, l-1 and l-2. However, a gene for light fruit coloration, W (Weak fruit color), is...
Cucurbita pepo (pumpkin, squash,gourd) is an economically important species that is susceptible to the cucurbit powdery mildew fungus, Podosphaera xanthii(syn. Sphaerotheca fuliginea). ‘True French’, an open-pollinated cultivar of the Zucchini Group of C. pepo, was crossed with an unnamed powdery-mildew resistant straight neck-type accession, the resistance of which was apparently derived from an...
Longitudinal striping of the fruit exterioris a common trait in Cucurbita pepo(pumpkin, squash, gourd). Striping occursas ten pairs of alternating dark and lightstripes that are regularly situated inaccordance with the ten sub-epidermalcarpellary vein tracts. Usually, the darkstripes occur in the central areas betweenthe vein tracts, with the light stripesoccupying the remainder of the fruitsurface...
Attempts at breeding squash (Cucurbita pepo) resistant to powdery mildew (Sphaerotheca fuliginea and Erysiphe cichoracearum) have heretofore been unsuccessful due mainly to association of the resistance trait with reduction in yield. The goal of the present work was to determine if heterozygous hybrids expressing partial resistance could be potentially valuable for squash growers. One heterozygous...
The l-2 (light coloration-2) locus in Cucurbita pepo (pumpkin, squash, gourd) has a major effect on fruit color intensity through its complementary interactions with at least three other loci. From a sixth-generation backcross progeny of which a wild gourd having striped fruits was the donor parent and a cultigen having ‘plain light’-colored fruits(genotype l-2/l-2) was the recurrent parent, a true-breeding...
Alternating intense (dark) and light stripes on the fruits are a fairly common feature of Cucurbita pepo, a highly variable species encompassing various kinds of pumpkins, squash, and gourds. The intense stripes can be narrow and broken or broad and contiguous. Narrow, broken intense striping is conferred by allele l-1St, which is dominant to allele l-1 for non-striped, lightly colored fruits and...
The melon (Cucumis melo) plant introduction PI 414723 was observed to segregate for resistance after inoculation with a highly virulent non-aphid-transmissible strain of zucchini yellow mosaic potyvirus (ZYMV-NAT). By self-pollination of selected resistant plants, the percentage of resistant plants increased in successive generations until nearly 100% in the S7 progeny. A reciprocal cross was made...
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