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CucCAP Scientists

The CucCAP team is a diverse group of scientists including plant breeders, plant genomics specialists, plant pathologists, crop production specialists, and agricultural economics specialists. Early career scientists on the CucCAP team include both MS and PhD graduate students, Post doctoral researchers, research technicians, and other technical staff assisting the CucCAP project’s principal investigators.

Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Prerna Sabharwal

May 23, 2023May 24, 2023 cuccap CucCAP Squash Team

Prerna Sabharwal is a graduate student working on her PhD in the Department of Horticultural Sciences at the University of Florida. Her major Professor is CucCAP Squash breeder, Dr. Geoffrey Meru. The focus of Prerna’s research includes plant breeding, plant pathology, and genomics.

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Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Yara Rosado Rivera

March 21, 2023March 22, 2023 cuccap CucCAP Disease Management Team

Yara performs field, greenhouse and lab research experiments in order to evaluate different disease management strategies for Cucurbit crops. One of the most important aspects of her position is to make research results available to growers.

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Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Md Ziaur Rahman Bhuiyan

February 21, 2023February 21, 2023 cuccap CucCAP Disease Management Team

Md Ziaur Rahman Bhuiyan is a postdoc in the vegetable pathology lab in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at North Carolina State University. His project leader is Dr. Lina M. Quesada-Ocampo, a professor, vegetable pathologist, and leader of the CucCAP Integrated Disease Management Team.

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Early Career Scientist Spotlight | David E. Perla

January 24, 2023January 25, 2023 cuccap CucCAP Disease Management Team

David Perla is a graduate student in the Department of Plant Soil and Microbial Sciences at Michigan State University and is working on a PhD under the guidance of his major professor, Dr. Mary Hausbeck. David is investigating strategies to manage Phytophthora spp. on vegetables in Michigan.

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Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Mariana Prieto Torres

November 30, 2022November 30, 2022 cuccap CucCAP Disease Management Team

Mariana Prieto Torres is a graduate student in the Vegetable Pathology Lab at NC State University and is working on a PhD under the guidance of her major professor, Dr. Lina Quesada

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Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Jingyin Yu

September 21, 2022September 22, 2022 cuccap CucCAP Genomics & Bioinformatics Team

Jingyin Yu is a post doc in Zhangjun Fei’s lab in the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell University in Ithica, N.Y. His research focuses on the development of the cucurbit genomics database and cucumber pangenome analysis.

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Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Honghe Sun

September 21, 2022September 22, 2022 cuccap CucCAP Genomics & Bioinformatics Team

Honghe Sun is a graduate student working on a PhD in Dr. Zhangjun Fei’s Lab at Boyce Thompson Institute. The focus of his work is genomics.

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Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Libby Indermaur

July 20, 2022January 26, 2023 cuccap CucCAP Disease Management Team, CucCAP Squash Team

Libby is identifying which of Michael Mazourek’s Cucurbita moschata and C. maxima breeding lines are: 1) resistant to powdery mildew and 2) candidate replacements for the susceptible cultivars used in the processing industry.

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CucCAP scientists use multiplex system to monitor virus threats to melon crops

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Multiple aphid- and whitefly- transmitted viruses are an increasing threat to melon production in the southwestern United States.  Often plants are infected by a mixture of different viruses, posing challenges for disease management and efforts to develop resistant varieties.  To help address this problem the Wintermantel lab in Salinas CA developed a multiplex single-step RT-PCR method to simultaneously test and differentiate among the among the different viruses.  Sampling of melon production regions in California and Arizona found that different combinations of viruses were dominant in fall vs. spring seasons, providing important information for disease management in areas impacted by cucurbit yellowing viruses.

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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
2020-51181-32139.

Cooperating Institutions:

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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