CucCAP melon breeders, industry representatives and other participants interested in Powdery Mildew replicated trials & natural infection and a Core set of means for trains assays, joined Dr. Jim McCreight at the University of California Desert Research and Extension Center on June 7, 2018 for a Melon Field Day. The group looked for Powdery Mildew […]
CucCAP Melon Team
Melon Team contributions to the CucCAP grant include captioned images of research activities, publications available online, and articles about the team’s research efforts and accomplishments.
2018 CucCAP Melon Team Annual Report
Team members Jim McCreight (USDA, ARS), Shaker Kousik (USDA, ARS), Michael Mazourek (Cornell Univ), Pat Wechter (USDA, ARS), Bill Wintermantel (USDA, ARS) reported on their lab’s progress and plans. Progress Reports and Work Plans Perform GBS analysis of PI collections, establish core populations, provide community resource for genome wide association studies (GWAS) & GBS of cucurbit […]
CucCAP Melon Team News and Events
The USDA-ARS Crop Improvement and Protection Research group stationed in Salinas, CA reported recent presentations to growers and industry. On Thursday December 7, 2017, Dr. Jim McCreight presented “Melon powdery mildew race variation in California” at the Imperial County 28th Annual Fall Desert Crops Workshop hosted by Cooperative Extension and the University of California. On Thursday, January […]
Melon Team Updaates
Screening Melon for Disease Resistance The USDA-ARS breeding team located in Salinas, CA is screening specialty melons for disease resistance. Commercial melon production Melon Diseases Downy mildew: Pseudoperonospora cubensis Powdery mildew: Erysiphe cichoracearumw Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus (CYSDV)
Screening Melon for Disease Resistance
The USDA-ARS breeding team located in Salinas, CA is screening specialty melons for disease resistance.
Powdery Mildew – Melon Powdery Mildew Database at UC Riverside
Cucurbit powdery mildew is a chronic and major disease problem of cantaloupe and honeydew production worldwide. Early infection can kill plants or drastically reduce fruit yield; late infection reduces fruit quality. The cucurbit powdery mildew responsible for powdery mildew disease in the USA is Podosphaera xanthii. Two races of P. xanthii were known in California until 2003 when a […]
Proceedings of CUCURBITACEAE 2016 | EUCARPIA
PROCEEDINGS OF CUCURBITACEAE 2016 The XIth Eucarpia Meeting on Cucurbit Genetics & Breeding Elżbieta U. Kozik & Harry S. Paris Editors July 24–28, 2016 Warsaw, Poland Wessel-Beaver, L., and J.C. Verle-Rodrigues. Sources of variation in ELISA Tests Used to Quantify ZYMV and PRSV Resistance in Cucurbita moschata. In Cucurbitaceae 2016, XIth EUCARPIA Meeting on Genetics […]
