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CucCAP Progress Reports

The CucCAP Team meets each year and reports on:
– Progress to date
– Priorities for the coming year
– Priorities and strategy for the future

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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Cucumber Team | 2021 Progress Report

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

View all tables and figures in pages 37-48 of the pdf version of this report.

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CucCAP Team 2020 Annual Meeting and Report

July 16, 2020July 21, 2020 cuccap CucCAP Project

An overview of accomplishments including genomic tools & databases, GBS collections & core populations, disease resistant cucurbit breeding lines, publications and presentations

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Genomics and Bioinformatics Team | 2020 CucCAP Progress Report

July 16, 2020August 7, 2024 cuccap CucCAP Genomics & Bioinformatics Team

View all tables and figures in pages 19-24 of the pdf version of this report.

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Watermelon Team | 2020 CucCAP Progress Report

July 16, 2020August 7, 2024 cuccap CucCAP Watermelon Team

View all tables and figures in pages 25-40 of the pdf version of this report.

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Melon Team | 2020 CucCAP Progress Report

July 14, 2020August 7, 2024 cuccap CucCAP Melon Team

View all tables and figures in pages 25-40 of the pdf version of this report

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Cucumber Team | 2020 Progress Report

July 14, 2020March 22, 2021 cuccap CucCAP Cucumber Team

CucCAP#1 Final Annual Progress Report, July 2020. Team members include Yiqun Weng (USDA, ARS), Rebecca Grumet (Michigan State University), and Todd Wehner (NC State University).

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Squash Team | 2020 CucCAP Progress Report

July 13, 2020September 22, 2021 cuccap CucCAP Squash Team

Final Progress Report for the CucCAP#1 Squash Team: Michael Mazourek (Cornell University), Linda Wessel-Beaver (University of Puerto Rico), Angela Linares (University of Puerto Rico), and Chris Smart (Cornell University).

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CucCAP scientists identify markers for powdery mildew resistance in watermelon

Powdery mildew outbreaks, caused by Podosphaera xanthii, cause reduced yields and fruit quality in watermelon. CucCAP scientists at Clemson University and the USDA Vegetable Laboratory Charleston SC employed a bulked segregant analysis approach using data from 1147 accessions from the USDA Citrullus germplasm collection to perform an extreme-phenotype genome-wide association study (XP-GWAS) of tolerance to P. xanthii race 2W. Kompetitive Allele-Specific PCR (KASP) markers were designed for significant SNPs associated with reduced disease. The best marker in each region explained 21-31% of the variation in powdery mildew tolerance.

For further reading:

Branham et al., 2025. Extreme-phenotype genome-wide association study (XP-GWAS) of powdery mildew race 2 W tolerance in the USDA Citrullus germplasm collection. Scientific Reports. DOI10.1038/s41598-025-89445-8

 

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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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Boyce Thompson Institute; Cornell University; Michigan State University; North Carolina State University; Clemson University; University of Puerto Rico; University of Wisconsin; University of Florida; University of Georgia; West Virginia State University; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service

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