Watermelons have changed from a small, bitter fruit that grows wild in Africa to the most popular fruit in the world. What’s next for watermelons? Source: The Watermelon’s Past, Present, and Future – Boyce Thompson Institute – Agriculture. Environment. Human Health.
CucCAP Project
Contributions to the CucCAP project by the Bioinformatics Team, Cucurbit Crop Breeding Teams, and the Integrated Disease Management Team.
How Downy Mildew Spores Are Monitored | MSU Extension Vegetables
Spore traps are placed in the several sites in Michigan counties for the field season. Each trap operates by continuously pulling in air and all associated particles (spores, pollen, dust, etc.) and impacting them onto sticky tape on a reel inside the trap. The reel with the spores is brought back to the lab where downy mildew […]
Project receives $2.3 million grant to combat downy mildew
USDA has awarded Michigan State University (MSU) researchers and collaborators at six other universities across the country a four-year, $2.3 million grant to develop management plans for downy mildew. Read more from the Vegetable Growers News
CucCAP Squash Team 2016 Annual Report
Team members: Michael Mazourek (Cornell University) Linda Beaver (University of Puerto Rico) Angela Linares (University of Puerto Rico) Chris Smart (Cornell University) Objectives: Develop common genomic approaches and tools for squash; Perform GBS analysis of PI collections, establish core populations, provide community resource for genome wide association studies (GWAS); GBS of squash, establish molecular-informed core […]
Zhangjun Fei: Genomics of Watermelon
Zhangjun Fei is a Associate Professor at Boyce Thompson Institute. View this YouTube video about Watermelon Genomics, produced for the Plant Biology Section seminar series on March 18, 2016. View more seminar videos from Cornell SIPS.
PDMR 10 – Plant Disese Management Reports for Cucurbits
PDMR, Volume 10, 2016.
Results of 2014 and 2015 field trials, Published in 2016.
Plant Disease Management reports for cucumber, squash, and watermelon.
$6.5 million grant may lead to disease-resistant cucurbits | EurekAlert! Science News
A collaboration between horticulturists and bioinformaticists has received a $6.5 million USDA grant to identify genetic regions useful for breeding disease-resistant melons, squash and pumpkins. BTI researcher Zhangjun Fei will lead the bioinformatics portion of the project. Source: $6.5 million grant may lead to disease-resistant cucurbits | EurekAlert! Science News
MSU to lead $6.5 million research on disease resistance in cucurbits | MSU
A national team of 20 scientists led by MSU Horticulture Professor Rebecca Grumet has been awarded $6.5 million grant to accelerate the development of disease-resistant cucurbit crops through leveraging applied genomics. Read More
