Team members: Marco Palma (Texas A&M Univ.) Luis Ribera (Texas A&M Univ.) Perform economic analysis, cost of production/disease control and Define, parameterize, simulate, and validate production variables based on cucurbit production crop budgets.
CucCAP Project
Contributions to the CucCAP project by the Bioinformatics Team, Cucurbit Crop Breeding Teams, and the Integrated Disease Management Team.
Extension/Outreach Team | 2019 CucCAP Progress Report
Team members:, Jonathan Schultheis (N. Carolina St.Univ.), Mary Hausbeck (Michigan St. Univ.), Angela Linares (Univ. Puerto Rico), Jim McCreight (USDA, ARS), Lina Quesada (N. Carolina St. Univ.), Chris Smart (Cornell Univ.), and Linda Wessel Beaver (Univ. Puerto Rico): Provide readily accessible information to facilitate disease control, Develop a centralized cucurbit disease website, Provide disease alerts and forecasting tools, Provide diagnostic and disease management assistance, and host Field days and demonstration plots.
Charleston Gray watermelon sequenced
The USDA news service posted an article in May 2019 about teamwork among CucCAP scientists on watermelon genomics.
UGA Watermelon Breeding team shares Spring Breeding Work in the Greenhouse
April 29, 2019 As the watermelons grow, students bag them in order to maintain support on the vine until they are ready to be removed. Continue Reading April 10, 2019 Infected plants are rated for severity of disease symptoms a couple of weeks after innoculation Continue Reading Follow the University of Georgia, Department of Horticulture […]
Fourth Annual Meeting of the CucCAP Team and Stakeholders
The 4th annual CucCAP team meeting was held at Boyce Thompson Institute in Ithaca, NY on April 12 & 13, 2019. Crop genomics, breeding, and pathology teams for cucumber, melon, squash, and watermelon reported their progress to cucurbit crop curators, external evaluators, and industry representatives. The 2019 CucCAP report lists publications and presentations from the group for the 2018 to 2019 reporting period. The 2019 CucCAP report is available on the CucCAP website.
The Study of Cucumber Resistance to Phytophthora Capsici | MSU
Ben Mansfeld’s research focuses on cucumber resistance to Phytophthora capsici (a fungus-like plant disease that affects many crops including cucurbits).
Harvesting Genes to Improve Watermelons | The Global Plant Council
Publications from CucCAP scientists Zhangjun Fei and Amnon Levi were highlighted in a recent article from The Global Plant Council.
Cornell University releases new cucumber and melon varieties | USDA NIFA
The release of disease-resistant cucurbits by CucCAP vegetable breeder, Dr. Michael Mazourek, was recently highlighted in a news release by NIFA titled, “Organic Plant Breeding Yields Superior Varieties for Cucurbit Growers”. Read More
