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CGC 16 (1993) Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative CGC 16 (1993) 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) CGC 16:1-2 (1993) 2. Turgid flowers are essential for good fruit and seed set in cucumber R. Szegedi, I. Csernia and P. Milotay (Hungary) CGC 16:3-4 (1993) 3. Vine rolling vs. conventional multiple harvest of cucumbers in North Carolina Todd C. Wehner and Conrad H. Miller (USA) CGC 16:5-7 (1993) 4. Observations in fruit netting in cucumber Michael S. Uchneat and Todd C. Wehner (USA) CGC 16:8-9 (1993) 5. Leaf structure and photosynthetic relations in Cucumis sativus var. sativus and Cucumis sativus var. hardwickii J.E. Staub and B.E. Struckmeyer (USA) CGC 16:10-13 (1993) 6. Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) induced mutations: A Phaseolus leaf mutant M. Rucinska, E. Bergier, K. Niemirowicz-Szczytt and A. Korzeniewska (Poland) CGC 16:14-17 (1993) 7. Independence of fruit length and 10 other characters in cucumber Nick E. Fanourakis (Greece) CGC 16:18-21 (1993) 8. Diallel analysis of cucumber germination at optimum and suboptimal temperatures P. Milotay (Hungary) CGC 16:22-26 (1993) 9. Application of factor analysis to cucumber breeding Meng Zhang and Hongwen Cui (P.R. China) CGC 16:27-29 (1993) 10. Application of narrow sense canonical characters to cucumber breeding Hongwen Cui and Yongtao Qi (P.R. China) CGC 16:30-34 (1993) 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) 1993toc.html[6/27/2018 3:11:15 PM] CGC 16 (1993) CGC 16:35-36 (1993) 12. Resistance to melon dieback in Spanish landraces of melon F. Nuez and J. Esteva (Spain) CGC 16:37-38 (1993) 13. Club mildew: working group on resistance of melon to powder mildew James D. McCreight and Michel Pitrat (USA and France) CGC 16:39 (1993) 14. Downy mildew (Pseudoperonospora cubensis B & C) resistance in melon (Cucumis melo L.) R.G. Somkuwar and T.A. More (India) CGC 16:40-41 (1993) 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) CGC 16:42-43 (1993) 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) CGC 16:44-46 (1993) 17. The role of viruses in sudden wilt of melons in New York Henry M. Munger (USA) CGC 16:47-48 (1993) 18. Screening of melons for sweetpotato whitefly resistance: 1992 James D. McCreight (USA) CGC 16:49-52 (1993) 19. Genotypic control of regeneration potential in Cucumis melo J. Jain and T.A. More (India) CGC 16:53-54 (1993) Squash and Pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.) 20. Genetic parthenocarpy in Cucurbita pepo L. R.W. Robinson (USA) CGC 16:55-57 (1993) 21. Productivity of naked seed squash, Cucurbita pepo L. Warid A. Warid, Jaime J. Martinez and Juan M. Loaiza (Mexico) CGC 16:58-60 (1993) 22. 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) CGC 16:61-63 (1993) 23. A case of extremely low expressivity of gene B2 in C. moschata Oved Shifriss (USA) CGC 16:64-67 (1993) 24. Inheritance of immature fruit color in C. moschata Antonio I.I. Cardosa, Paulo T. Della Vecchia and Norberto Silva (Brazil) CGC 16:68-69 (1993) 25. Breeding bush types of C. moschata with field resistance to PRSV-W Paulo T. Della Vecchia, Pedro Terenciano S. and Amadeu Terenciano (Brazil) CGC 16:70-72 (1993) 26. Powdery and down mildew resistance in Cucurbita moschata accessions Linda Wessel-Beaver (USA) CGC 16:73-74 (1993) 27. Leaf silvering of squash: a brief review Harry S. Paris (Israel) CGC 16:75-76 (1993) Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) 28. 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) CGC 16:77-78 (1993) 1993toc.html[6/27/2018 3:11:15 PM] CGC 16 (1993) 29. Male sterile, ms, in watermelon not linked to delayed green, dg and I-dg Xingping Zhang and Bill Rhodes (USA) CGC 16:79 (1993) 30. Fertility shift in an in vitro regenerated male- sterile line in watermelon Xingping Zhang and Bill Rhodes (USA) CGC 16:80 (1993) 31. Protoplast isolation and culture of watermelon cotyledons Caiping Ma, X.P. Zhang, B.B. Rhodes and J.W. Adelberg (USA) CGC 16:81-83 (1993) Other Genera and Species 32. Crossability between Momordica charantia and Momordica dioica M. Abdul Vahab and K.V. Peter (India) CGC 16:84-86 (1993) 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) CGC 16:87-89 (1993) Gene Lists and Germplasm 1. Cucumber, melon and squash germplasm from the Cornell collection Molly Kyle, George Moriarty and Henry M. Munger (USA) CGC 16:90-91 (1993) 2. Gene list update for cucumber Todd C. Wehner (USA) CGC 16:92-97 (1993) 3. Gene nomenclature for the Cucurbitaceae CGC Gene List Committee CGC 16:98 (1993) 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) 1993toc.html[6/27/2018 3:11:15 PM] CGC16-0 Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 16: vi-ix (Introduction) 1993 Introduction Comments from the CGC Coordinating Committee The Call for Papers for the 1994 Report (CGC Report No. 17) will be mailed in August 1993. Papers should be submitted to the respective Coordinating Committee members by 31 December 1993. The report will be published by June 1994. As always, we are eager to hear from CGC members regarding our current activities and the future direction of CGC. Gary W. Elmstrom (melon) Dennis T. Ray (watermelon) Mark G. Hutton (other genera) Jack E. Staub (cucumber) J. Brent Loy (Cucurbita spp.) Timothy J. Ng, Chairman Comments from CGC Gene List Committee Lists of known genes for the Cucurbitaceae have been published previously in Hortscience and in reports of the Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative. CGC is currently publishing complete lists of known genes for cucumber (Cucumis sativus), melon (Cucumis melo), watermelon (Citrullus lanatus), and Cucurbita spp. on a rotating basis. It is hoped that scientists will consult these lists as well as the rules of gene nomenclature for the Cucurbitaceae before choosing a gene name and symbol. Thus, inadvertent duplication of gene names and symbols will be prevented. The rules of gene nomenclature were adopted in order to provide guidelines for the naming and symbolizing of genes previously reported and those which will be reported in the future. Scientists are urged to contact members of the Gene List Committee regarding questions in interpreting the nomenclature rules and in naming and symbolizing new genes. Cucumber: Todd C. Wehner Melon: Michael Pitrat Watermelon: Warren R. Henderson Cucurbita spp.: Mark G. Hutton and Richard W. Robinson Other Genera: Richard W. Robinson Comments from the CGC Gene Curators CGC has appointed Curators for the four major cultivated groups: cucumber, melon, watermelon and Cucurbita spp. A back- up Curator for the "Other genera" category in needed; any one wishing to take on this responsibility should contact the Chair. Curators are responsible for collecting, maintaining and distributing upon request stocks of the known marker genes. CGC members are requested to forward samples of currently held gene stocks to the respective Curator. Cucumber: Todd C. Wehner and Jack E. Staub Melon: J.D. McCreight and Michel Pitrat Other genera: Richard W. Robinson Watermelon: Gary W. Elmstrom, E. Glen Price and Billy B. Rhodes Cucurbita spp.: Mark G. Hutton and Richard W. Robinson 16th Annual CGC Business Meeting cgc16-0.html[6/27/2018 3:15:45 PM] CGC16-0 The 16th Annual Business Meeting of the Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative was held on 21 December 1992 in conjunction with the 1992 Cucurbit Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. Todd Wehner chaired the meeting in Tim Ng's absence, and 21 members and guests (representing six different countries) were in attendance. An update of CGC Report and CGC membership statistics was presented. Jack Staub was nominated and elected as CGC Coordinating Committee member for cucumber (Cucumis sativus). Jack replaces Todd Wehner, who had completed his ten year term as a member of the Coordinating Committee. Two amendments to the CC By-laws were proposed by the CGC Chair: (1) to change the By-laws to allow for more than five members on the CGC Gene List Committee, and (2) to limit guaranteed availability of back issues of the CGC Report to only the most recent five issues. The first proposed amendment reflects both the increasing complexity of maintaining gene lists and the willingness of CGC members to volunteer their services in this activity.
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