Presentations at commodity and scientific Meetings:
Southeast Vegetable and Fruit EXPO
On November 28 and 29, 2017, NC State CucCAP scientists presented research results to members of the vegetable production community. Todd Wehner’s cucurbit breeding group spoke about cucumber germplasm with high resistance to Downy Mildew. Also at this meeting, Jonathan Schultheis’ vegetable production team presented talks on watermelon production management considerations, Cucurbit cultivar considerations, specialty melon opportunities, melon cultivar yield, and melon quality. Lina Quesada-Ocampo’s Vegetable disease Lab discussed Integrated management of Cucumber Downy Mildew, Host Tolerance and Chemical Control of Fusarium Wilt of Watermelon. Other presentations about cucurbit diseases at this meeting included a discussion about Anthracnose, Gummy Stem Blight, and Powdery Mildew on watermelon, and results from the 2017 Fungicide Trials conducted by researchers from Clemson University.
Future meetings:
The Cucurbitaceae 2018 meeting will be held at UC Davis in November 2018.
Look for more meetings at this link: Upcoming Events.
Accomplishments of the Genomics and Bioinformatics group since March:
Publications:
- Wu S, Shamimuzzaman M, Sun H, Salse J, Sui X, Wilder A, Wu Z, Levi A, Xu Y, Ling KS, Fei Z (2017) The bottle gourd genome provides insights into Cucurbitaceae evolution and facilitates mapping of a Papaya ringspot virus resistance locus. Plant J 92:963-975
- Sun H, Wu S, Zhang G, Jiao C, Guo S, Ren Y, Zhang J, Zhang H, Gong G, Jia Z, Zhang F, Tian J, Lucas WJ, Doyle JJ, Li H, Fei Z, Xu Y (2017) Karyotype stability and unbiased fractionation in the paleo-allotetraploid Cucurbita genomes. Molecular Plant 10:1293-1306
Presentations:
- Cucurbit Genomics Database Workshop. The XIV Solanaceae and III Cucurbitaceae Genomics Joint Conference. Valencia, Spain. September 2017
Others:
- Released the newly-designed Cucurbit Genomics Database (http://cucurbitgenomics.org/) in May, 2017.
- Finished genotyping of 1564 cucumber, 2077 melon, 1365 watermelon, 829 Cucurbita pepo, 191 Cucurbita moschata and 177 Cucurbita maxima accessions using Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS).
Publications from the Breeding Teams now online:
- Ma, S. and T. C. Wehner. 2015. Flowering stage resistance to bacterial fruit blotch in the watermelon germplasm collection. Crop Science 55: 727-736.
