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McGregor Lab @ UGA

Cecilia McGregor is an Associate Professor in the Horticulture department at the University of Georgia; Areas of expertise include Cucurbit breeding, genetics and genomics; member of the CucCAP watermelon team.

Managing anthracnose disease in watermelons

June 18, 2024June 19, 2024 cuccap Cucurbit Crop & Disease Management Resources

The disease primarily impacts cucumbers and watermelons, but other cucurbits can also serve as hosts. Its symptoms consist of leaf spots, defoliation and an occasional fruit lesion. It can also spread in the fruit bins after harvest, which makes it more difficult to control.

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Sources of resistance identified for Cucurbit chlorotic yellows virus in squash germplasm

April 29, 2024August 6, 2024 cuccap CucCAP Squash Team, Featured Articles

Researchers at the University of Georgia performed greenhouse trials to verify promising germplasm identified from field studies.

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Watermelon Team | 2024 Progress Report

April 19, 2024August 7, 2024 cuccap CucCAP Watermelon Team

View all tables and figures in pages 37 – 40 of the pdf version of this report.

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CucCAP scientists develop a super-pangenome for watermelon

October 2, 2023October 3, 2023 cuccap Featured Articles

A super-pangenome was constructed to represent the entire watermelon gene repertoire, uncovering several disease resistance genes that are present in wild watermelons while completely lost in watermelon cultivars.

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CucCAP watermelon team | super-pangenome for watermelon

August 21, 2023October 11, 2023 cuccap CucCAP Watermelon Team

Scientists have constructed a comprehensive ‘super-pangenome’ for watermelon and its wild relatives, uncovering beneficial genes lost during domestication that could improve disease resistance and fruit quality of this vital fruit crop.

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ISHS International Symposium on Cucurbits 2023

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 watermelon, cucumber, and genomics.

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Watermelon Team | 2023 Progress Report

June 10, 2023August 7, 2024 cuccap CucCAP Watermelon Team, Cucurbit Crop & Disease Management Resources

View all tables and figures in pages 21 – 34 of the pdf version of this report.

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CucCAP Squash Team | Research Publications

April 25, 2023May 25, 2023 cuccap CucCAP Squash Team

The CucCAP squash team published 6 journal articles in 2022 & 2023, 7 journal articles in 2021, and 5 journal articles in 2020.

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CucCAP scientists use cucumber core collection to map fruit quality traits

The CucCAP core collection, comprised of 388 accessions representing >96% of the genetic diversity for cucumber present in the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System, harbors important sources of disease resistance. As sources of resistance are often present in germplasm with poor fruit quality, scientists from Michigan State University characterized the collection for fifteen fruit quality traits. Genetic associations (QTL) for each trait were identified from genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Many of the genetic locations were in close vicinity to previously identified fruit trait QTL and candidate genes; several novel loci and genes potentially important for these traits were also identified.

For further reading:

Lin YC, Weng Y, Fei Z, Grumet R. 2025. Mining the cucumber core collection: phenotypic and genetic characterization of morphological diversity for fruit quality characteristics. Horticulture Research 12:uhae340.

 

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The Cucurbit Coordinated Agricultural Project (CucCAP) is a USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture Specialty Crop Research Initiative grant under award number
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