Vine decline disease (VDD) constitutes a menace to melons worldwide. Especially, the one caused by the fungus Monosporascus cannonballus. Thus, resistant plant material must be released to help growers. Hence, our goa...
"Over 20 years ago,once we saw people in inland cities planting tomatoes,green peppers,and other vegetables in greenhouses,we doubted we would ever be successful if we were to try the same."Penpa Dundrup,the former vi...
supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation,Division of Integrative Organismal Systems(award number IOS-1052589).
Feeding behavior and plant response to feeding were studied for the aphid Aphis gossypii Glover on susceptible and resistant melons(cv.Iroquois and TGR-1551,respectively).Average phloem phase bout duration on TGR-1551...
This experiment mainly monitored the high-density planting conditions of small watermelons in spring greenhouses in Beijing by US350 environmental sensors. Besides,it analyzed the requirements for environmental factor...
Watermelon research in Southern Africa, has predominantly observed the clear existence of the sweet watermelon and cow melon forms of watermelon, cultivated on farm and even some occurring in the wild. Molecular chara...
financially supported by the Key Project of Liaoning Province(2011215003);the Project of the Science and Technology Bureau of Shenyang,China(F12-277-1-26)
Compared to other melon types, oriental sweet melon (Cucumis melo var. makuwa Makino) is quite a different species with a shorter shelf-life due to its typical climacteric behavior and thin pericarp. The purpose of ...
Fifteen expressed sequence tag (EST)-derived simple sequence repeats (EST-SSRs) were used to investigate genetic diversity in 139 plants obtained from seeds of 35 watermelon accessions collected from all the geographi...
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(30870109)
In this work,an electronic nose was used to evaluate the different cultivars and mature stages of melons,so as to establish a scientific method to accurately distinguish the maturity and varieties of melons. Principal...
An outbreak of the sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius), biotype B occurred in the Imperial Valley, California in 1991. The insects destroyed melon crops and seriously damaged other vegetables, ornamenta...