CucCAP scientists Zhangjun Fei, Shaker Kousik, Cecilia McGregor, Umesh K. Reddy, and Yiqun Weng are on the Scientific committee of the VII International Symposium on Cucurbits. Their specialties include genomics, watermelon breeding, cucumber breeding, and vegetable pathology.

CucCAP Presentations

• Whole-genome scanning using QTL-Seq and GWAS for gummy stem blight resistance in watermelon. by Purushothaman Natarajan, Padma Nimmakayala, Carlos Lopez-Ortiz, Akilan Rathnagiri, Luis A. Rivera-Burgos, Nebahat Sari, Todd C. Wehner, Amnon Levi, Yan Tomason, and Umesh K. Reddy.