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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.

CucCAP Watermelon Team | Research Publications

April 25, 2023June 1, 2023 cuccap CucCAP Watermelon Team

The CucCAP watermelon team published 13 journal articles in 2022, 6 journal articles in 2021, and 15 journal articles in 2020.

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CucCAP Bioinformatics Team | Research Publications

April 25, 2023May 26, 2023 cuccap Cucurbit Crop & Disease Management Resources

The CucCAP Bioinformatics published eight publications in research journals from 2020 to2023.

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Emerging Viruses in Cucurbits Working Group

April 5, 2023June 23, 2023 cuccap CucCAP Melon Team, Cucurbit Crop & Disease Management Resources

The Emerging Viruses in Cucurbits Working Group (EVCWG) is charged with improving communication and virus knowledge across the cucurbit industry as well as developing strategies to successfully identify and mitigate virus threats to cucurbit production in the United States.

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CUCURBITACEAE 2022

CucCAP scientists, Dr. Geoffrey Meru and Dr. Cecelia McGregor, will host this meeting in Florida.

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CucCAP researchers compile analysis of genetic resources and vulnerabilities for cucurbit crops

December 3, 2021December 21, 2021 cuccap Featured Articles

Germplasm collections maintained by the US National Plant Germplasm System and those of other countries are critical sources of diversity utilized by breeders for crop improvement.  This review summarizes status of collections and vulnerabilities for cucurbit crops.

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Watermelon Team | 2021 Progress Report

October 29, 2021August 7, 2024 cuccap CucCAP Watermelon Team

View all tables and figures in pages 21 – 28 of the pdf version of this report.

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Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Samikshya Rijal

July 22, 2021July 22, 2021 cuccap CucCAP Watermelon Team

CucCAP scientist Samikshya Rijal is working on watermelon breeding and genetics. Her primary goal is to assist in the development of gummy stem blight (GSB) resistant breeding material.

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Managing Whitefly Viruses | VSCNews

June 8, 2021June 8, 2021 cuccap Cucurbit Crop & Disease Management Resources

Vegetable disease specialists from the University of Georgia discuss viruses affecting watermelon, squash and cucumbers including cucurbit leaf crumple virus, cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus, and squash vein yellowing virus.

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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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