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.
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.
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.
Cucumber Team | 2023 Progress Report
Genomics and Bioinformatics Team | 2023 Progress Report
The CucCAP Genomics and Bioinformatics Team reported on project progress and ongoing research in April 2023.
CucCAP Cucumber Team | Research Publications
The CucCAP Cucumber breeding and genomics team published 11 journal articles and book chapters between September 2020 and April 2023.
CucCAP Bioinformatics Team | Research Publications
CucCAP scientists identified candidate gene contributing to resistance to downy mildew in cucumber
Downy mildew (DM) is an important disease of cucumber and other cucurbits. Many quantitative trait loci (QTL) have been identified from different resistant resources but very few have been fine mapped or cloned. CucCAP researchers in USDA-ARS and the University of Wisconsin Madison reported identification and functional characterization of the candidate gene for the major-effect QTL, dm5.3, for DM resistance from the plant introduction line PI 197088. This gene, which can enhance plant disease signaling, is currently being used to breed for disease resistance in cucumber.
CucCAP PAG XXIX presentations
CucCAP Cucumber team members made virtual presentations at the 2022 Plant and Animal Genome meeting in January 2022.
