Cornell University vegetable breeder Michael Mazourek discusses his work on the Cucurbit Coordinated Agricultural Project, breeding vegetables for flavor, his new seed company, and his partnership with chef Dan Barber.
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Fei Lab Presents Poster at PAG XXVI
Cucurbita Genome Sequences Provide Insights into Polyploid … Jan 23, 2018 – Cucurbita Genome. Sequences Provide. Insights into Polyploid. Genome Evolution and Heterosis in. Interspecific Hybrid. Outline. Introduction. – The origins and domestication of C. maxima and C. moschata. – The uses of C. maxima …. and C. moschata correlated with heterosis in important agronomic traits.
The bottle gourd genome provides insights into Cucurbitaceae evolution and facilitates mapping of a Papaya ring-spot virus resistance locus
The bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria cv. USVL1VR-Ls) genomes is published in The Plant Journal and the genome is now available to the public. The bottle gourd genome provides insights into Cucurbitaceae evolution and facilitates mapping of a Papaya ring-spot virus resistance locus
CucCAP Bioinformatics team | comparative genomic analysis identifies relationships between bottle gourd and other cucurbits
Bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) is an important vegetable crop as well as a rootstock for other cucurbit crops.
Karyotype Stability and Unbiased Fractionation in the Paleo-Allotetraploid Cucurbita Genomes: Molecular Plant
Analyses of high-quality genome sequences of Cucurbita maxima and C. moschata revealan ancient allotetraploidy event in Cucurbita.