Research Geneticist at the USDA-ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit in Madison Wisconsin & Professor of Horticulture at the University of Wisconsin.
View the Genomics Team progress report including all tables and figures in pages 12 – 19 of the pdf version of this report.
Genomics and Bioinformatics Team members:
Zhangjun Fei (Boyce Thompson Institute)
Shan Wu (Boyce Thompson Institute)
Amnon Levi (USDA, ARS)
Yiqun Weng (USDA, ARS)
Michael Mazourek (Cornell University)
Jim McCreight (USDA, ARS)
Rebecca Grumet (Michigan State University)
View the Cucumber Team progress report with tables and figures in pages 41 – 52 of the pdf version of this report.
Cucumber Team members:
Yiqun Weng (YW), USDA-ARS, University of Wisconsin Madison,
Rebecca Grumet (RG), Michigan State University
Kai-Shu Ling (KL), USDA-ARS Charleston, SC
Anthony Keinath (AK), Clemson University, SC
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.
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.
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.
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.
The CucCAP Genomics and Bioinformatics Team reported on project progress and ongoing research in April 2023.
