Melon Breeding Team Publications | 2016 – 2019

Breeding, Genetics, & Genomics Publications

Breeding, Genetics, & Genomics Presentations

  • Potential for Production of Turkmen Melons in California, Nation Association of Plant Breeders annual meeting, Davis, CA, 7-10 August 7-10 2018
    Ando, K. and McCreight, J.D. 2018.
  • Exploring Genetic Diversity in The U.S. National Melon Collection. CUCURBITACEAE 2018, Davis CA, November 12-15, 2018.
    Ando, K., X. Wang, U. Reddy, Z. Fei, and J. McCreight. 2018.
  • Where in The New Melon Classification Schemes Does Cucumis melo ssp. agrestis var. texanus Belong? Cucurbitaceae 2018, Univ. California, Davis, 12-15 November 2018.
    Ando, K., X. Wang, Z. Fei, W. Wintermantel, and J. McCreight.
  • Exploring Genetic Diversity in The U.S. National Melon Collection. CUCURBITACEAE 2018, Davis CA, November 12-15, 2018.
    Ando, K., X. Wang, U. Reddy, Z. Fei, and J. McCreight. 2018.
  • Phylogenetic analyses confirm the unique status of the wild new world melon, Cucumis melo ssp. agrestis var. texanus, and suggest it be tentatively designated Group Texanus in the recent revision of melon nomenclature, American Society for Horticultural Science 2018 Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., July 30–August 3, 2018.
    Ando, K., W.M. Wintermantel, and J.D. McCreight.
  • Construction of a High-Density Genome- Anchored Genetic Map for Melon (Cucumis melo L.) and Identification of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melonis Race 1 Resistance QTL.  (poster) Plant and Animal Genome XXVII Conference. Jan. 12-16, 2018.
    Branham, S.E., A. Levi, M. Katawczik, Z. Fei, and W.P. Wechter.
  • Mapping resistance to Alternaria cucumerina in muskmelon. Plant and Animal Genome Conference XXV , San Diego CA, Jan 14-18, 2017.
    Daley, J., S. Branham, A. Levi, R. Hassell, and P. Wechter.
  • Transcriptome changes occurred in the whitefly, B. tabaci MEAM1 in response to feeding on CYSDV-infected melon, American Phytopathological Society annual meeting, San Antonio, TX, August 5-9, 2017.
    Kaur, N., Chen, W., Fei, Z. and Wintermantel, W.M. 2017.
  • 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.
    Kaur, N., W. Chen, Z. Fei, and W.M. Wintermantel.
  • Evaluations of melon germplasm reported to exhibit host plant resistance to sweetpotato whitefly. Entomological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN. Nov. 2015.
    McCreight, J.D., W.M. Wintermantel, and E.T. Natwick.
  • Allelism of resistance to Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus in melon accessions PI 313970 and TGR 1551. Annual meeting, Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 22-25 July, Las Vegas, NV. 2019.
    McCreight, J.D., W.M. Wintermantel, A.I. Lopez-Sese, and M.L. Gomez-Guillamon.
  • Expression of Host Plant Resistance in Melon to Sweetpotato Whitefly in the Desert Southwest United States, XXV International Congress of Entomology, Orlando, FL, Sep. 2016.
    McCreight, J.D., W.M. Wintermantel, and E.T. Natwick.
  • New Sources of Resistance to CYSDV in Melon, In Cucurbitaceae 2016, XIth EUCARPIA Meeting on Genetics and Breeding of Cucurbitaceae, Kozik EU and Paris HS, eds, Warsaw, Poland, p. 61–65. July 24–28, 2016.
    McCreight, J.D., W.M. Wintermantel, and E.T. Natwick.
  • Cucurbit powdery mildew races on melon: current status in the U.S., American Society for Horticultural Science 2018 Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., July 30–August 3, 2018.
    McCreight, J.D., D. Coffey Michael, K. Ando, and S. Kousik Chandrasekar.
  • Advances in Watermelon Breeding. Southeast Regional Fruit & Vegetable Conference, Savannah, GA, January 8-10, 2016.
    McGregor, C.E.
  • Evaluation of fungicides for management of Fusarium wilt of watermelon. Phytopathology. (Abstract) 2016.
    Miller, N.F. and L.M. Quesada-Ocampo.
  • Evaluation of Potential New Sources of Melon Host Plant Resistance to the Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, 3rd Hemipteran-Plant Interactions Symposium, Madrid. Spain. June 4-8, 2017.
    Natwick, E.T, W.M. Wintermantel, R.L. Gilbertson, S.G. Blanco, and J.D McCreight.
  • 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, 2017.
    Wechter P, Branham S, Levi A.
  • Mapping Resistance to Alternaria Cucumerina in Muskmelon, Plant and Animal Genome meeting, San Diego, CA, January 14-18, 2017.
    Wechter, P.
  • Identification of quantitative trait loci associated with resistance to race 1 Fusarium wilt in Cucumis melo, American Phytopathological Society annual meeting, San Antonio, TX, August 5-9, 2017.
    Wechter, P.
  • Epidemiology of Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus (CYSDV) and associated whitefly-transmitted viruses in the US Southwest and development of CYSDV resistant melon. Paper presentation at 2nd International Whitefly Symposium, Arusha, Tanzania, February 14-19,  2016.
    Wintermantel, W.M., J.D. McCreight, and E.T. Natwick.
  • Reservoir hosts of Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus and development of resistant melon. 13th International Plant Virus Epidemiology Symposium. Avignon, France, June 6-10, 2016. Wintermantel, W.M., J.D. McCreight, and E.T. Natwick.