Pumpkin and Squash – Breeding, Genetics, Genomics, & Pathology Publications
2022 – 2023
- Characterization of the USDA Cucurbita pepo, C. moschata, and C. maxima germplasm collections
by Christopher O. Hernandez, Joanne Labate, Kathleen Reitsma, Jack Fabrizio, Kan Bao, Zhangjun Fei, Rebecca Grumet and Michael Mazourek - Podosphaera xantii: An Update on the Powdery Mildew of Tropical Pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata Duchesne) in Puerto Rico
by A. Landrón, A. M. Linares, M. Feliciano, and Y. Miranda - Embryo rescue protocol for interspecific hybridization in squash
by Yuqing Fu, Swati Shrestha , Pamela Moon, Geoffrey Meru - Field Evaluation of Cucurbita Germplasm for Resistance to Whiteflies and Whitefly-transmitted Viruses
by Alexander Luckew, Geoffrey Meru, Ya-Ying Wang, Rodrick Mwatuwa, Mathews Paret, Renato Carvalho, Melanie Kalischuk, Andre Luiz Biscaia Ribeiro da Silva, Joara Candian, Bhabesh Dutta, Rajagopalbabu Srinivasan, Saritha Raman Kavalappara, Naga Charan Konakalla RRD, Sudeep Bag, and Cecilia McGregor - Fine mapping and identification of candidate genes for the hull-less seed phenotype in Cucurbita pepo
by Jack Fabrizio, Kyle LaPlant, Lindsay Wyatt, Gregory Inzinna, Li Li & Michael Mazourek - What makes a giant fruit? Assembling a genomic toolkit underlying various fruit traits of the mammoth group of Cucurbita maxima
by Umesh K. Reddy, Purushothaman Natarajan, Venkata Lakshmi Abburi, Yan Tomason, Amnon Levi and Padma Nimmakayala
2021
- Antifungal Activity in Winter Squash Fruit Peel in Relation to Age Related Resistance to Phytophthora capsici
by Safa A. Alzohairy, Raymond Hammerschmidt, Mary K. Hausbeck - First report of cucurbit chlorotic yellows virus in association with other whitefly-transmitted viruses in squash (Cucurbita pepo) in Georgia
by Saritha Raman Kavalappara, Hayley Milner, Alton Sparks, Cecilia McGregor, William M. Wintermantel, and Sudeep Bag - New Sources of Resistance in Winter Squash (Cucurbita moschata) to Phytophthora Crown Rot and Their Relationship to Cultivated Squash
byChandrasekar S. Kousik, Gregory Vogel, Jennifer L. Ikerd, Mihir K. Mandal, Michael Mazourek, Christine D. Smart, and William W. Turechek - Reconsidering Approaches to Selection in Winter Squash Improvement: Improved Quality and Breeding Efficiency
by Michael Mazourek, Christopher Hernandez, Jack Fabrizio - A Novel QTL for Resistance to Phytophthora Crown Rot in Squash
by Vincent Njung’e Michael, Yuqing Fu, Swati Shrestha and Geoffrey Meru - Virus quantification, flowering, yield, and fruit quality in tropical pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata Duchesne) genotypes susceptible or resistant to two potyviruses
by Wilfredo Seda-Martínez, Linda Wessel-Beaver, Angela Linares-Ramírez, and Jose Carlos V. Rodrigues - A combined BSA-Seq and linkage mapping approach identifies genomic regions associated with Phytophthora root and crown rot resistance in squash
by Gregory Vogel, Kyle E. LaPlant, Michael Mazourek, Michael A. Gore & Christine D. Smart
2020
- Changes in winter squash fruit exocarp structure associated with age-related resistance to Phytophthora capsici.
by Safa A. Alzohairy, Raymond Hammerschmidt, and Mary K. Hausbeck - Divergence of defensive cucurbitacins in independent Cucurbita pepo domestication events leads to differences in specialist herbivore preference
by Lauren J. Brzozowski, Michael A. Gore, Anurag A. Agrawal, Michael Mazourek - Transcriptome changes in reciprocal grafts involving watermelon and bottle gourd reveal molecular mechanisms involved in increase of the fruit size, rind toughness and soluble solids
by Marleny Garcia-Lozano, Sudip Kumar Dutta, Purushothaman Natarajan, Yan R. Tomason, Carlos Lopez, Ramesh Katam, Amnon Levi, Padma Nimmakayala & Umesh K. Reddy - Control of Phytophthora capsici diseases in greenhouse squash by fast-flow filtration
by S. Jeon, C.S. Krasnow, G.D. Bhalsod, B.R. Harlan, M.K. Hausbeck, S.I. Safferman, W. Zhang - Performance and resistance to Phytophthora crown and root rot in Cucurbita pepo lines
by Kyle E. LaPlant, Gregory Vogel, Ella Reeves, Christine D. Smart, and Michael Mazourek
