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Melon Team | 2024 Progress Report

April 19, 2024August 7, 2024 cuccap CucCAP Melon Team

View all tables and figures in pages 37 – 40 of the pdf version of this report.

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Watermelon Team | 2024 Progress Report

April 19, 2024August 7, 2024 cuccap CucCAP Watermelon Team

View all tables and figures in pages 37 – 40 of the pdf version of this report.

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Squash Team | 2024 Progress Report

April 19, 2024August 7, 2024 cuccap CucCAP Squash Team

View the 2024 Squash Report including all tables and figures in pages 53 – 64 of the pdf version of this report.

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Integrated Disease Management Team | 2024 Progress Report

April 19, 2024August 7, 2024 cuccap CucCAP Disease Management Team

View all tables and figures in pages 65 – 98 of the pdf version of this report.

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Georgia watermelon plantings delayed

April 18, 2024April 23, 2024 cuccap Cucurbit Crop & Disease Management Resources

South Georgia watermelon producers are behind in their plantings this spring. Excessive rains are the reason.

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South Carolina Grower Update | April 15, 2024

April 18, 2024August 27, 2024 cuccap Cucurbit Crop & Disease Management Resources

Watermelons and cantaloupes are still being planted. Over the past few weeks there have been a few days of heavy rain events and windy weather has put some growers behind schedule. Soil temperature is still cool due to the inconsistent weather patterns we are having, which means fusarium wilt is still active, and a potential threat to watermelons.

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Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Savannah Beyer

April 17, 2024 cuccap CucCAP Cucumber Team

Savannah Beyer is a member of  the Weng lab at the USDA ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit (VCRU) in the Department of Plant and Agroecology Sciences at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

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2023 N.C. and Tenn. Pumpkin Cultigen Evaluations

April 16, 2024April 18, 2024 cuccap CucCAP Disease Management Team, Cucurbit Crop & Disease Management Resources

CucCAP Vegetable Specialist, Jonathan Schultheis, and the Cultural Management Program in the Horticulture Department at NC State have summarized the results from their 2023 North Carolina and Tennessee Pumpkin Cultigen Evaluation Study.

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CucCAP scientists identify markers for powdery mildew resistance in watermelon

Powdery mildew outbreaks, caused by Podosphaera xanthii, cause reduced yields and fruit quality in watermelon. CucCAP scientists at Clemson University and the USDA Vegetable Laboratory Charleston SC employed a bulked segregant analysis approach using data from 1147 accessions from the USDA Citrullus germplasm collection to perform an extreme-phenotype genome-wide association study (XP-GWAS) of tolerance to P. xanthii race 2W. Kompetitive Allele-Specific PCR (KASP) markers were designed for significant SNPs associated with reduced disease. The best marker in each region explained 21-31% of the variation in powdery mildew tolerance.

For further reading:

Branham et al., 2025. Extreme-phenotype genome-wide association study (XP-GWAS) of powdery mildew race 2 W tolerance in the USDA Citrullus germplasm collection. Scientific Reports. DOI10.1038/s41598-025-89445-8

 

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