2017 CucCAP Research Publications

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In 2017, CucCAP researchers published 23 peer reviewed journal articles, 13 book chapters, 25 conference papers, and 14 plant disease management reports. These resources are reported annually by Rebecca Grumet, the CucCAP project director, to the USDA Research, Education, & Economics Information System.

Peer reviewed journal articles

  • Dhillon, N.P.S., S. Phethin, S. Sanguansil, and J.D. McCreight. 2017. Early staminate flowering monoecious lines have potential as pollenizers for gynoecious hybrid bitter gourd cultivars Pak. J. Agri. Sci. 54:27 33. 10.21162/PAKJAS/17.4354
  • Grumet R, Colle M. 2017. Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) breeding line with young fruit resistance to infection by Phytophthora capsici. HortScience. 52:922-924.
  • Holdsworth WL, LaPlant KE, Bell DC, Jahn MM, Mazourek M. 2016. Cultivar-Based Introgression Mapping Reveals Wild Species-Derived Pm-0, the Major Powdery Mildew Resistance Locus in Squash. PLoS One 11:e0167715
  • Krasnow, C.S., and Hausbeck, M.K. 2017. Characteristics of resistance to Phytophthora root and crown rot in Cucurbita pepo L. Plant Disease 101:659-665.
  • Krasnow, C.S., and Hausbeck, M.K. 2016. Evaluation of winter squash and pumpkin cultivars for age-related resistance to Phytophthora capsici fruit rot. HortScience 51:1251-1255.
  • Krasnow, C.S., and Hausbeck, M.K. 2017. Evaluation of winter squash cultivars for resistance to Phytophthora root rot, 2015. Plant Disease Management Reports 11:V028. Online.
  • Kousik C. S., Ji P., Egel D., and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. (2017) Fungicide rotation schemes for managing Phytophthora fruit rot of watermelon across Southeastern United States. Plant Health Progress 18: 28-34.
  • Levi, A., A.M. Simmons, L. Massey, J. Coffey, W.P. Wechter, R.L. Jarret, Y. Tadmor, P. Nimmakayala, and U.K. Reddy. 2017. Genetic diversity in the desert watermelon Citrullus colocynthis and its relationship with Citrullus species as determined by high-frequency oligonucleotides-targeting active gene markers J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 142(1):47 56.
  • Mansfeld BN, Colle M, Kang Y, Jones AD, Grumet R 2017. Transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses of cucumber fruit peels reveal a developmental increase in terpenoid glycosides associated with age-related resistance to Phytophthora capsici. Horticulture Research. 4:17022
  • McCreight, J.D., W.M. Wintermantel, and E.T. Natwick. 2017. Host plant resistance in melon to sweetpotato whitefly in California and Arizona. Acta Hort. 1151:237 244.
  • McCreight, J.D., W.M. Wintermantel, E.T. Natwick, J.W. Sinclair, K.M. Crosby, and M.L. Gemez-Guillamen. 2017. Recessive resistance to Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus in melon TGR 1551. Acta Hort. 1151:101107.
  • Palma, Marco A., Luis A. Ribera, and Ronald D. Knutson. 2016. The Era of the Functional Consumer.  Journal of Food Products Marketing. 2:5, 555-570, DOI:10.1080/10454446.2015.1121425
  • Pan YP, Qu SP, Bo KL, Gao ML, Haider KR, Weng Y (2017) QTL mapping of domestication and diversifying selection related traits in round-fruited semi-wild Xishuangbanna cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. var. xishuangbannanesis). Theor Appl Genet 130:1531-1548
  • Rahman A.P, Miles T. D., Martin F. N., and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. (2017) Molecular approaches for development of biosurveillance tools for the cucurbit downy mildew pathogen Pseudoperonospora cubensis. Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology: 39:282-296.
  • Rennberger, G., Kousik, C.S., and Keinath, A.P. 2017. First report of powdery mildew on Cucumis zambianus, Cucurbita digitata and Melothria scabra caused by Podosphaera xanthii. Plant Disease “First Look” http://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/pdf/10.1094/PDIS-06-17-0916-PDN Posted on 09/06/2017.
  • Schultheis, J.R., A.C. Thornton, and W. B. Thompson. 2016. Evaluating pickling cucumber plant populations to maximize yield for once-over mechanical harvest in the southeastern United States. Acta Horticulturae. 1123:69-78.
  • 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, http://www.cell.com/molecular-plant/abstract/S1674-2052(17)30266-6
  • Thomas A., Carbone I., Choe K., Quesada-Ocampo L. M., and Ojiambo P. (2017) Resurgence of cucurbit downy mildew in the United States: Insights from comparative genomic analysis of Pseudoperonospora cubensis. Ecology and Evolution: 7:6231-6246.
  • Wallace E. and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. (2017) Analysis of microsatellites from the transcriptome of downy mildew pathogens and their application for characterization of Pseudoperonospora populations. PeerJ 5:e3266.
  • Wang, Y., K. VandenLangenberg, T. C. Wehner, P. A. G. Kraan, J. Suelmann, X. Zheng, K. Owens, and Y. Weng. 2016. QTL mapping for downy mildew resistance in cucumber inbred line WI7120 (PI 330628). Theor. Appl. Genet. 129:14931505.
  • Webster, C.G., Turechek, W.W., Li, W., Kousik, C.S. and Adkins, S. 2017. Development and evaluation of ELISA and qRT-PCR for identification of Squash vein yellowing virus in cucurbits. Plant Disease 101:178-185. 2017.
  • Wintermantel, W.M., Gilbertson, R.L., Natwick, E.T., McCreight, J.D. 2017. Emergence and epidemiology of Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus in the American Desert Southwest, and development of host plant resistance in melon. Virus Res. 2017 Jun 18. pii: S0168-1702(17)30154-5. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2017.06.004.
  • Wu S, Shamimuzzaman M, Sun H, Salse J, Sui X, Wilder A, Wu Z, Levi A, Xu Y, Ling K-S, Fei Z (2017) The bottle gourd genome provides insights into Cucurbitaceae evolution and facilitates mapping of a Papaya ringspot virus resistance locus. Plant J DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13722

Book Chapters

  • Adkins, S.T., and Kousik, C.S. 2017. Cucumber vein yellowing virus. Compendium of Cucurbit Diseases. American Phytopathological Society. 2017:143-144.
  • Adkins, S.T., Turechek, W., Roberts, P.D., Webb, S.E., Baker, C.A., and Kousik, C.S., 2017. Squash vein yellowing virus. Compendium of Cucurbit Diseases. American Phytopathological Society. 2017:149-151.
  • Bai Y, Zhang Z, Fei Z. 2017. Databases and bioinformatics for cucurbit species. In: Grumet R, Katzir N, Garcia-Mas J, editors. Genetics and genomics of the Cucurbitaceae. New York: Springer Intl Pub p.253-268
  • Grumet R, Colle M. 2017. Genomic analysis of cucurbit fruit growth. In: Grumet R, Katzir N, Garcia-Mas J (eds). Genetics and Genomics of the Cucurbitaceae. Springer Publishing. P. 321-344
  • Grumet R, Garcia-Mas J, Katzir N. 2017. Cucurbit genetics and genomics: A look to the future. In: Grumet R, Katzir N, Garcia-Mas J (eds). Genetics and Genomics of the Cucurbitaceae. Springer Publishing. P. 409-416.
  • Hausbeck, M.K. 2017. Phytophthora crown and root rot. Pages 43-45 in: Compendium of Cucurbit Diseases and Pests, 2nd ed. Keinath, A.P, Wintermantel, W.M., and Zitter, T.A., eds. APS Press, Minneapolis, MN.
  • Levi A, Jarret R, Kousik S, Wechter WP, NImmakayala P, Reddy U. 2017. Genetic Resources of Watermelon. In: Grumet R, Katzir N, Garcia-Mas J (eds). Genetics and Genomics of the Cucurbitaceae. Springer Publishing.p. 87-110
  • McCreight JD. 2017. Cultivation and uses of cucurbits. In: Grumet R, Katzir N, Garcia-Mas J (eds). Genetics and Genomics of the Cucurbitaceae. Springer Publishing. P. 1-12
  • McCreight, J.D. 2017. Botany and culture, p. 19. In: A.P. Keinath, W.M. Wintermantel, and T.A. Zitter (eds.). Compendium of cucurbit diseases and insect pests, 2nd ed. APS Press, St. Paul, Minn.
  • McCreight, J.D. and A.P. Keinath. 2017. Crown blight of melons and crown decline of watermelon, p. 185186. In: A. Keinath, W.M. Wintermantel, and T.A. Zitter (eds.). Compendium of cucurbit diseases and insect pests, 2nd ed. APS Press, St. Paul, Minn.
  • Naegele RP, Wehner TC. 2017. Genetic Resources of Cucumber. In: Grumet R, Katzir N, Garcia-Mas J (eds). Genetics and Genomics of the Cucurbitaceae. Springer Publishing. P. 61-86
  • Nimmakayala P, Saminathan T, Abburi VL, Yadav LK, Tomason Y, Levi A, Weng Y, Reddy UK. 2017. Comparative Genomics of the Cucurbitaceae. In: Grumet R, Katzir N, Garcia-Mas J (eds). Genetics and Genomics of the Cucurbitaceae. Springer Publishing. P. 229-240
  • Quesada-Ocampo L. M., Ed, (2017) Disease control for commercial vegetables. North Carolina Agricultural and Chemicals Manual.

Conference Papers

  • Fei Z. 2017. Cucurbit Genomics Database Workshop. SolCuc. Valencia, Spain. September 2017 https://pag.confex.com/pag/xxv/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25600
    Weng Y. 2017. The cucumber genome. In: Grumet R, Katzir N, Garcia-Mas J (eds). Genetics and Genomics of the Cucurbitaceae. Springer Publishing. P. 199-210
  • Alzohairy, S.A., Hammerschmidt, R., and Hausbeck, M.K. 2017. Characterization of the structural basis of winter squash fruit age-related resistance to Phytophthora capsici. American Phytopathological Society Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX 526-P
  • Colle M, Mansfeld B, Grumet R. 2017. Genome-wide SNP discovery and identification of age-related resistance loci in cucumber by QTL-seq. PAG XXV. https://pag.confex.com/pag/xxv/webprogram/paper24399.html.
  • Guo S, Sun H, Ren Y, Zhang J, Tian S, Gong G, Zhang H, Fei Z, Xu Y. 2017. Genome variation elucidates evolution and domestication of fruit ripening and quality traits in watermelon. PAG. January, 2017. https://pag.confex.com/pag/xxv/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25600
  • Gimode, W.R. and C.E. McGregor. 2017. Fine Mapping of a Major Flowering Time Quantitative Trait Locus in Watermelon Using Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms. CROPS 2017, Hudson Alpha, Huntsville, Alabama.
  • Gimode, W.R., J. Clevenger and C.E. McGregor. 2017. Fine Mapping of a Major Flowering Time Quantitative Trait Locus in Watermelon. NAPB 2017, University of California, Davis-CA.
  • Kaur, N., Chen, W., Fei, Z. and Wintermantel, W.M. Transcriptome changes occurred in the whitefly, B. tabaci MEAM1 in response to feeding on melon infected with the crinivirus, CYSDV, 3rd Hemipteran-Plant Interactions Symposium, Madrid. Spain. June 4-8, 2017.
  • Kousik, C.S., Ikerd, J.L. and Mandal, M.K. 2017. Long term monitoring of cucurbit powdery mildew (Podosphaera xanthii) races in Charleston, South Carolina. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Phytopathological Society, San Antonio, TX August 2017. 503-P
  • Krasnow, C.S., and Hausbeck, M.K. 2016. Age-related resistance of Cucurbita spp. fruit to Phytophthora capsici. Abstr. Phytopathology 106 (Suppl.):S1.5.
  • Miranda-Velez, M, L. Wessel-Beaver, Jose C. Verle-Rodrigues and W. Seda-Martenez. 2016. Effect of leaf position on the assessment of resistance to Papaya ringspot virus and Zucchini yellow mosaic virus in tropical pumpkin. Proceedings of the 41st meeting of the Sociedad Puertorriqueea de Ciencias Agrecolas, November 18, 2016, Corozal, Puerto Rico. p. 57.
  • Mandal, M.K., Suren, H. and Kousik, C.S. 2017. Transcriptomic profiling of watermelon-powdery mildew (Podosphaera xanthii) interactions. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Phytopathological Society, San Antonio, TX August 2017. 361-P
  • Mandal, M.K., Ikerd, J.L., Wallace, E.C., Rebbeca, G., Turechek, W., Quesada-Ocampo, L.M. and Kousik, C.S. 2017. Population biology of the downy mildew pathogen on tolerant and susceptible cucumber in the southeastern United States. American Phytopathological Society, San Antonio, TX August 2017. 563-P
  • Mantooth, K.L., Ikerd, J.L., Mandal, M.K. and Kousik, C.S. 2017. Potential sources of resistance to Phytophthora crown rot in Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata. American Phytopathological Society, San Antonio, TX August 2017. 291-P
  • Natwick, E.T, Wintermantel, W. M., Gilbertson, R.L., Blanco, S.G., and McCreight, J.D.2017. Evaluation of Potential New Sources of Melon Host Plant Resistance to the Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci. 3rd Hemipteran-Plant Interactions Symposium, Madrid. Spain.
  • Perkins-Veazie, P., J.R. Schultheis, G. Ma, and T. Birdsell. 2016. Carotenoid content of butternut squash cultivars following harvest and storage. HortScience. 51(9):S358
  • Rahman A., Martin F., Shands A., Miles T., and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. 2017.Using comparative genomics to develop biosurveillance tools for the cucurbit downy mildew pathogen Pseudoperonospora cubensis. Oomycete Molecular Genetics Network Meeting, Pacific Grove, CA.
  • Branham S, Levi A, Farnham M, Wechter P. 2017. Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping of Resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum race 2 in Citrullus lanatus var. Citroides using Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS). PAG XXV. https://pag.confex.com/pag/xxv/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25554
  • Wechter P, Branham S, Levi A. 2017. 66-P: GBS-SNP-based linkage mapping and QTL associated with resistance to race 1 Fusarium wilt in Cucumis melo. American Phytopathological Society. 266-P
  • Adams M. L. and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. (2017) Evaluation of cultivars and fungicides for control of downy mildew on cucumber, Clinton 2015. Plant Disease Management Reports 11: V160.
  • Adams M. L. and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. (2017) Evaluation of cultivars and fungicides for control of downy mildew on cucumber, Clinton 2014. Plant Disease Management Reports 11: V161.
  • Schultheis, J.R. and W.B. Thompson. 2016. Watermelon yield and fruit size response to grafted versus non-grafted transplants in plasticulture and bare ground production systems. HortScience. 51(9):S38 (abstr.)
  • Schultheis, J.R. and W.B. Thompson. 2016. Watermelon cultivar yield and quality results, North Carolina, 2015. HortScience. 51(9):S37 (abstr.)
  • Seda-Martenez, W., M. Miranda-Velez, L. Wessel-Beaver and A. M. Linares-Ramirez. 2017. Approaches to Phenotyping PRSV and ZYMV Resistance in Tropical Pumpkin. HortScience 45(8):S234.
  • Vogel, G. LaPlant, K. Reeves, E., Mazourek, M., Gore, M., Smart, CD. 2017. Evaluation of Cucurbita pepo breeding lines with reduced susceptibility to root and crown rot caused by Phytophthora capsici. American Phytopathological Society, San Antonio TX August 237-P
  • Daley J, Branham SE, Hassell R, Levi A, Wechter P. 2017. Mapping Resistance to Alternaria Cucumerina in Muskmelon, Plant and Animal Genome meeting, San Diego, CA, January 14-18, 2017. https://pag.confex.com/pag/xxv/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/25467

Plant Disease Management Reports

  • Adams M. L., Noel N. A., and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. (2017) Evaluation of fungicides for control of anthracnose on cucumber, Cleveland 2016. Plant Disease Management Reports 11: V099.
  • Adams M. L., Parada C. H., and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. (2017) Evaluation of fungicides for control of Phytophthora fruit rot of watermelon, Kinston 2016. Plant Disease Management Reports 11: V111.
  • Adams M. L. and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. (2017) Evaluation of fungicides for control of downy mildew on cucumber, Clayton 2016. Plant Disease Management Reports 11: V100.
  • Adams M. L. and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. (2017) Evaluation of fungicides for control of powdery mildew of winter squash, Cleveland 2016. Plant Disease Management Reports 11: V112.
  • Adams M. L. and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. (2017) Evaluation of fungicides for control of downy mildew on cucumber, Kinston II 2016. Plant Disease Management Reports 11: V096.
  • Adams M. L. and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. (2017) Evaluation of fungicides and cultivars for control of downy mildew on cucumber, Kinston 2016. Plant Disease Management Reports 11: V097.
  • Adams M. L. and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. (2017) Evaluation of cultivars and fungicides for control of downy mildew on cucumber, Clinton 2016. Plant Disease Management Reports 11: V098.
  • Hausbeck, M.K., Krasnow, C.S., and Linderman, S.D. 2016. Managing Phytophthora on winter squash and pumpkin. Online at https://veggies.msu.edu/extension-publications/#FactSheets.
  • Hausbeck, M.K., and Linderman, S.D. 2016. Managing Phytophthora on summer squash and zucchini. Online at https://veggies.msu.edu/extension-publications/#FactSheets
  • Hausbeck, M.K., and Linderman, S.D. 2016. Managing Phytophthora on cucumber. Online at https://veggies.msu.edu/extension-publications/#FactSheets
  • Hausbeck, M.K., and Linderman, S.D. 2016. Managing Phytophthora on cantaloupe, muskmelon and watermelon. Online at https://veggies.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/FS_Managing-Phytophthora-on-Melon.pdf
  • Miller N., Adams M. L., and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. (2017) Evaluation of fungicides for Fusarium wilt of watermelon, 2016. Plant Disease Management Reports 11: V135.
  • Miller N., Adams M. L., and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. (2017) Evaluation of fungicides for control of Fusarium wilt of watermelon, Salisbury, NC, 2015. Plant Disease Management Reports 11: V134.
  • Noel N.A. and Quesada-Ocampo L. M. (2017) Tolerance of watermelon lines to cucurbit anthracnose, 2016. Plant Disease Management Reports 11: V062.
  • Wessel-Beaver, L. and A.M. Linares-Ramirez. 2017.Dos virus importantes en la Calabaza: Mosaico Amarillo de la clabaza (ZYMV) y Mancha Anular de la Papaya (PRSV). UPRM EEA-Lajas Publication 003. Factsheet