On June 1, the CucCAP team observed Cucurbit Downy Mildew on cucumbers in North Carolina and Fusarium wilt on watermelon in South Carolina.
CucCAP Project
Contributions to the CucCAP project by the Bioinformatics Team, Cucurbit Crop Breeding Teams, and the Integrated Disease Management Team.
Cucurbit Downy Mildew Management
CucCAP plant pathologist, Anthony Keinath published a factsheet on cucurbit downy mildew management with sections on symptoms and signs, how cucurbit downy mildew spreads, cultural practices to limit cucurbit downy mildew, and spraying for cucurbit downy mildew.
Cucurbit Disease Factsheets | Cornell Vegetables
These factsheets from Cornell CALS can be found on the Cornell Vegetable Program and the Long Island Horticultural Research & Extension Center websites.
CucCAP researchers review producers’ willingness to pay for new varieties
Stated preference surveys are a relatively new approach to measuring specialty crop producers’ valuation of breeding traits.
CucCAP Bioinformatics team releases version 2 of Cucurbit Genomics Database
Version 2 of the Cucurbit Genomics Database (CuGenDBv2) is up running. The release note was published in April 2022.
PDMR 16 – Plant Disease Management Reports for Cucurbits
PDMR, Volume 16, 2022
Results of 2021 field trials, Published in 2022.
Plant Disease Management reports for cucumbers and squash.
Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Kim Heagy
Kim Heagy is a graduate student working on a Masters degree in the Department of Horticultural Science at NC State University. Kim is a member of the Schultheis Vegetable Production lab which is part of the CucCAP Integrated Disease Management Team.
CucCAP scientists map QTL for resistance to powdery mildew in melon
Powdery mildew is one of the most important diseases of melon. CucCAP researchers used a densely genotyped melon population to identify QTL associated with resistance in multiple plant tissues.
