The CucCAP Cucumber breeding and genomics team published 11 journal articles and book chapters between September 2020 and April 2023.
Weng Lab @ USDA-ARS in Madison
Research Geneticist at the USDA-ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit in Madison Wisconsin & Professor of Horticulture at the University of Wisconsin.
Genomics and Bioinformatics Team | 2024 Progress Report
View the Genomics Team progress report including all tables and figures in pages 12 – 19 of the pdf version of this report.
Cucumber Team | 2024 Progress Report
View the Cucumber Team progress report with tables and figures in pages 41 – 52 of the pdf version of this report.
Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Savannah Beyer
Savannah Beyer is a member of the Weng lab at the USDA ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit (VCRU) in the Department of Plant and Agroecology Sciences at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
New Cucumber Publications | 2024
CucCAP researchers identify QTL associated with resistance to Phytophthora fruit rot in cucumber
Phytophthora fruit rot is a major disease impacting pickling cucumber production for which there are no resistant varieties. Genomic approaches were performed on the cucumber core collection leading to identification and verification of several quantitative trait loci associated with resistance. The results from this work can be applied to future disease resistance studies and to assist marker-assisted selection in breeding programs.
CucCAP scientists identify gene for short-vining cucumber plants
The compact (cp) phenotype in cucumber is an important plant architecture-related trait with potential for breeding short-vining cucumber plants for high density planting and mechanized harvest.
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.
