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Melon Field Day in Imperial Valley
June 7, 2018
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If you have an interest in Powdery Mildew replicated trials & natural infection and a Core set of means for trains assays, join Dr. Jim McCreight at the University of California Desert Research and Extension Center Melon Field Day.
Powdery Mildew. See 47 entries, including the “standards,” candidate accessions, and the 21-line triple septet set proposed by Lebeda et al.*
Core Collection. This includes ca. 384 melon cultigens tentatively selected to represent the genetic variation in the larger set of 2000+ USDA, GRIN accessions and ‘heirloom’ lines. More details about the Melon Core Collection can be found in the 2017 CucCAP annual report.
*Cucurbit powdery mildews: methodology for objective determination and denomination of races. European Journal of Plant Pathology
*Initiative for international cooperation of researchers and breeders related to determination and denomination of cucurbit powdery mildew races Cucurbitaceae 2016, XIth Eucarpia Meeting on Genetics and Breeding of Cucurbitaceae, Warsaw, Poland.
