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Cucurbitaceae 2014 Proceedings CUCURBITACEAE 2014 PROCEEDINGS October 12-16, 2014 Bay Harbor, Michigan 3URFHHGLQJVFRYHU),1$/LQGG $0 Cucurbitaceae 2014 Proceedings October 12–16, 2014 Bay Harbor, Michigan, USA Organizing Committee Rebecca Grumet (Chair), Michigan State University Brad Day, Michigan State University Michael Havey, USDA–ARS and University of Wisconsin–Madison Yiqun Weng, USDA–ARS and University of Wisconsin–Madison copyright 2014 American Society for Horticultural Science, 1018 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-3512 ISBN 978-0-9830932-2-0 Cucurbitaceae 2014 i Cucurbitaceae 2014 Proceedings EDITORS Michael Havey, USDA–ARS and University of Wisconsin–Madison Yiqun Weng, USDA–ARS and University of Wisconsin–Madison Brad Day, Michigan State University Rebecca Grumet, Michigan State University SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Catherine Dogimont, INRA, Avignon, France Hiroshi Ezura, University of Tsukuba, Japan Zhangjun Fei, Cornell University, USA Jordi Garcia Mas, IRTA, Barcelona, Spain Mary Hausbeck, Michigan State University, USA Nurit Katzir, ARO, Newe Ya’ar, Israel Amnon Levi, USDA–ARS, Charleston SC, USA Feishi Luan, NE Agricultural University, Harbin, China Nebahat Sari, Cukurova University, Turkey Jos Suelmann, Nunhems Seeds, Netherlands Yaakov Tadmor, ARO, Newe Ya’ar, Israel Alyson Thornton, Harris Moran Seed Company, USA Todd Wehner, North Carolina State University, USA Shmuel Wolf, Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel Bernie Zandstra, Michigan State University, USA Xingping Zhang, Hailiang, China Due to the cost of printing color figures, authors chose to publish figures in black-and-white. If a figure caption references color(s), please contact the corresponding author for a color version of the figure. ii Cucurbitaceae 2014 Preface On behalf of the organizing committee, we welcome you to Cucurbitaceae 2014. This conference is the 14th biennial meeting of the international cucurbit research community. The first meeting was held in Avignon France in 1988, with subsequent meetings in the United States (1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, and 2010), Poland (1992), Spain (1996), Israel (2000), the Czech Republic (2004), France (2008), and Turkey (2012). We look forward to continuing this tradition of open communication and collaboration among researchers in the cucurbit community at this meeting and the next meeting planned for Poland in 2016. Many people contributed to the planning for and organization of Cucurbitaceae 2014. We thank the staff of ANR Event Services at Michigan State University whose help was instrumental in the success of this meeting, especially the experience and organizational skills of Betsy Braid and Mary Slevin. We also thank Sylvia DeMar at the American Society of Horticultural Science for her efforts organizing and produc- ing the Proceedings of our meeting. Cucurbitaceae 2014 would not have been possible without the financial support of Michigan State University and our corporate sponsors Monsanto, Syngenta, Bejo, Hazera, HM-Clause, Rijk Zwaan, Sakata, East-West Seed, Bayer, and Magnum Seeds. Please take the opportunity to thank representatives of these companies for their generous support of our conference. Rebecca Grumet Brad Day Michael Havey Yiqun Weng Cucurbitaceae 2014 iii iv Cucurbitaceae 2014 Table of Contents BIOTIC STRESSES—PATHOLOGY AND Identification and Genetic Mapping of a Dominant Gene for Resistance to Powdery Mildew in Squash ENTOMOLOGY (Cucurbita pepo) 38 A Transcriptomic Approach to Analyzing Genetic Guoyu Zhang, Haizhen Li, Fan Zhang, Changcai Jia, Pathways Involved in Cucumis sativus Resistance to and Ligang Jiang Pseudoperonospora cubensis 1 Alyssa Burkhardt and Brad Day Pseudoperonospora cubensis Sporangia Trapping As a Tool for Early Detection and Epidemiological Studies of Downy Differential Analysis of Gene Expression Profiling Mildew in Michigan 41 in Different Cucumber Cultivars Inoculated With Mary K. Hausbeck, Rachel P. Naegele, and Leah L. Granke Pseudoperonospora cubensis 4 Dajun Liu, Guojun Feng, Hui Sheng, and Zhiwei Qin Population Structure of Pseudoperonospora cubensis in Michigan and Canada 45 Effects of Bacterial Fruit Blotch Pathogen on Rachel P. Naegele and Mary K. Hausbeck. Lina M. Treated Melon Seed 7 Quesada-Ocampo, and Catarina Saude Ju-fen Li, Tao Lin, and Guo-bin Ma Cucumber Mosaic Virus Resistance in Melon: Learning BREEDING, GENETICS, AND GENETIC RESOURCES Lessons from the Virus 10 Molecularly Tagged Genes and Quantitative Trait Loci in Cèlia Guiu-Aragonés, Ana Giner, Jordi Garcia-Mas, and Ana Montserrat Martín-Hernández, and Juan A. Díaz- Cucumber 48 Pendón Yiqun Weng Methanolic Extracts of Cucumber Fruit Peel Inhibit QTL Mapping of Flowering Time and Fruit Shape Growth of Phytophthora capsici 13 in Xishuangbana Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L var Marivi Colle, Ben Nathan Mansfeld and Rebecca Grumet xishuangbannanesis Qi et Yuan) 54 Shuping Qu, Yupeng Pan, and Yiqun Weng QTLs for Downy Mildew Resistance and Their Association with LRR-RLK Resistance Gene Analogs Seed Yield and Quality of Watermelon Genotypes Having in Cucumber 17 Snack Food Potential 57 Yuhui Wang, Kyle VandenLangenberg, Todd C. 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