Watermelon – Breeding, Genetics, Genomics, Pathology Publications
2022 – 2023
- QTL associated with resistance to Stagonosporopsis citrulli in Citrullus amarus
by Lincoln Adams & Cecilia McGregor - Phenotypic diversity for root traits and identification of superior germplasm for root breeding in watermelon
by Dennis N. Katuuramu, W. Patrick Wechter, Marcellus L. Washington, Matthew Horry, Matthew A. Cutulle, Robert L. Jarret, and Amnon Levi - Watermelon germplasm line with broad resistance to powdery mildew and Phytophthora fruit rot.
by Chandrasekar S. Kousik, Jennifer Ikerd, Mihir Mandal, Scott Adkins, and William W. Turechek - Haplotype networking of GWAS hits for citrulline content indicates positive selection leading to the domestication of watermelon
by Vijay Joshi, Suhas Shinde, Padma Nimmakayala, Venkata Lakshmi Abburi, Suresh Babu Alaparthi, Carlos Lopez-Ortiz, Amnon Levi, Girish Panicker, and Umesh K. Reddy - Genome-wide association study and population structure analysis of seed-bound amino acids and total protein in watermelon
by Vijay Joshi, Padma Nimmakayala, Qiushuo Song, Venkata Abburi, Purushothaman Natarajan, Amnon Levi, Kevin Crosby, Umesh K. Reddy - Watermelon Lines with Gummy Stem Blight Resistance and Good Fruit Quality
by Luis A. Rivera-Burgos, Emily J. Silverman, and Todd C. Wehner - Evaluation of Resistance to Gummy Stem Blight in a Population of Recombinant Inbred Lines of Watermelon × Citron
by Luis A. Rivera-Burgos, Emily Silverman, Nebahat Sari, and Todd C. Wehner - Elevated expression of ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP) genes in potyvirus-resistant watermelon in response to viral infection
by Bidisha Chanda,Shan Wu,Zhangjun Fei,Kai-Shu Ling &Amnon Levi - Micronutrients Affect Expression of Induced Resistance Genes in Hydroponically Grown Watermelon against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum and Meloidogyne incognita
by Kasmita Karki, Vishal Singh Negi, Tim Coolong, Aparna Petkar, Mihir Mandal, Chandrasekar Kousik, Ron Gitaitis, Abolfazl Hajihassani and Bhabesh Dutta - Genome-wide association analysis of resistance to Pseudoperonospora cubensis in citron watermelon
by Dennis N. Katuuramu, Sandra E. Branham, Amnon Levi, and W. Patrick Wechter - Broad resistance to post-harvest fruit rot in USVL watermelon germplasm lines to isolates of Phytophthora capsici from across USA
by Chandrasekar S. Kousik, Jennifer L. Ikerd, W. Patrick Wechter, Sandra Branham, and William Turechek - Population Genomics of sweet watermelon Chapter, Part of the Population Genomics book series
by Padma Nimmakayala, Purushothaman Natarajan, Carlos Lopez-Ortiz, Sudip K. Dutta, Amnon Levi & Umesh K. Reddy - Genome sequencing of up to 6,000-yr-old Citrullus seeds reveals use of a bitter-fleshed species prior to watermelon domestication.
by Oscar A Pérez-Escobar, Sergio Tusso, Natalia A S Przelomska, Shan Wu, Philippa Ryan, Mark Nesbitt, Martina V Silber, Michaela Preick, Zhangjun Fei, Michael Hofreiter, Guillaume Chomicki, Susanne S Renner
2021
- Altered chromatin confirmation and transcriptional regulation in watermelon following genome doubling
by: Marleny Garcia-Lozano, Purushothaman Natarajan, Amnon Levi, Ramesh Katam, Carlos Lopez-Ortiz, Padama Nimmakayala, and Umesh K. Reddy - Genome-wide association study and population structure analysis of seed-bound amino acids and total protein in watermelon
by: Vijay Joshi, Padma Nimmakayala, Qiushuo Song, Venkata Abburi, Purushothaman Natarajan, Amnon Levi, Kevin Crosby, and Umesh K. Reddy - The Transcriptomic Profile of Watermelon Is Affected by Zinc in the Presence of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum and Meloidogyne incognita
by Kasmita Karki, Tim Coolong, Chandrasekar Kousik, Aparna Petkar, Brendon K. Myers, Abolfazl Hajihassani, Mihir Mandal, and Bhabesh Dutta - A chromosome-level genome of a Kordofan melon illuminates the origin of domesticated watermelons
by Susanne S. Renner, Shan Wu, Oscar A. Pérez-Escobar, Martina V. Silber, Zhangjun Fei, and Guillaume Chomicki
- A catalog of natural products occurring in watermelon – Citrullus lanatus
by Maria Sorokina1, Kira S. McCaffrey, Erin E. Deaton, Guoying Ma, José M. Ordovás, Penelope M. Perkins-Veazie, Christoph Steinbeck, Amnon Levi and Laurence D. Parnell - Haplotype networking of GWAS hits for citrulline content indicates positive selection leading to the domestication of watermelon
by Vijay Joshi, Suhas Shinde, Padma Nimmakayala, Venkata Lakshmi Abburi, Suresh Babu Alaparthi, Carlos Lopez-Ortiz, Amnon Levi, Girish Panicker, and Umesh K. Reddy
2020
- Mapping a partial andromonoecy locus in Citrullus lanatus using BSA-Seq and GWAS approaches
by Encarnación Aguado, Alicia García, Jessica Iglesias-Moya, Jonathan Romero, Todd C. Wehner, María Luisa Gómez-Guillamón, Belén Picó, Ana Garcés-Claver, Cecilia Martínez and Manuel Jamilena - QTL mapping of resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum race 2 and Papaya ringspot virus in Citrullus amarus
by Sandra Branham, W.P. Wechter, K. Ling, D.N. Katuuramu, and A. Levi at the Eucarpia Cucurbitaceae Symposium Proceedings. 2021 - Screening for bacterial fruit blotch resistance in watermelon fruit
by James Daley and Todd C. Wehner - Fine-mapping of a major quantitative trait locus (QTL) controlling flowering time and QTL mapping of gummy stem blight in watermelon.
by Winnie Riziki Adu Gimode - QTL associated with gummy stem blight resistance in watermelon
by Winnie Gimode, Kan Bao, Zhangjun Fei & Cecilia McGregor - Fine-mapping of a major quantitative trait locus Qdff3-1 controlling flowering time in watermelon
by Winnie Gimode, Josh Clevenger & Cecilia McGregor - Citrullus lanatus (Genome of the month)
by Shaogui Guo, Honghe Sun, Yong Xu, Zhangjun Fei - Phenotypic diversity for root traits and identification of superior germplasm for root breeding in watermelon
by Dennis N. Katuuramu, W. Patrick Wechter, Marcellus L. Washington, Matthew Horry, Matthew A. Cutulle, Robert L. Jarret, and Amnon Levi - Detection of Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus infecting watermelon in South Carolina
by Chandrasekar S. Kousik and Scott Adkins - Elucidation of resistance signaling and identification of powdery mildew resistant mapping loci (ClaPMR2) during watermelon-Podosphaera xanthii interaction using RNA-Seq and whole-genome resequencing approach
by Mihir Kumar Mandal, Haktan Suren & Chandrasekar Kousik - Effect of various soil media on disease severity of Fusarium wilt in watermelon
by Geoffrey Meru and Cecilia McGregor - Sensitivity of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum to prothioconazole and pydiflumetofen in vitro and efficacy for Fusarium wilt management in watermelon
by Nathan F. Miller, Jeffrey R. Standish, and Lina M. Quesada-Ocampo - Localization shift of a sugar transporter contributes to phloem unloading in sweet watermelons
by Yi Ren, Honghe Sun, Mei Zong, Shaogui Guo, Zhijie Ren, Jianyu Zhao, Maoying Li, Jie Zhang, Shouwei Tian, Jinfang Wang, Yongtao Yu, Guoyi Gong, Haiying Zhang, Hongju He, Legong Li, Xiaolan Zhang, Fan Liu, Zhangjun Fei, Yong Xu - Response of some watermelon accessions to a Puerto Rico strain of Zucchini yellow mosaic virus
by Giseiry Rosa-Valentín, Linda Wessel-Beaver, and Jose Carlos V. Rodrigues - Predicting hollow heart incidence in triploid watermelon (Citrullus lanatas)
by Marlee A. Trandel, Penelope Perkins-Veazie, and Jonathan Schultheis
