List price   € 74   Buy this book   This title is available in ActaHort USB-drive or e-Acta format - not available in print Conveners   P. Bleyaert, R. De Vis, M.-C. Van Labeke  Editors   P. Bleyaert, M.-C. Van Labeke  Publication date   17 November 2020  ISBN   978-94-62612-92-1  ISSN   0567-7572 (print)   2406-6168 (electronic)  Number of articles   31  Volumes   1  Place   Ghent, Belgium  Online articles: Acta Horticulturae 1294 - cover - colophon - contents - authors Origin of the zucchini squash, Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo Zucchini group (H.S. Paris, T.A. Lust) Ancient origin of bicolor fruit in Cucurbita moschata Duchesne (T.C. Andres, H.S. Paris) Update on cucurbit breeding at the World Vegetable Center (N.P.S. Dhillon) Production of doubled haploid plants of Cucurbitaceae family crops through unpollinated ovule culture in vitro (E. Domblides, N. Shmykova, G. Khimich, I. Korotseva, L. Kan, A. Domblides, V. Pivovarov, A. Soldatenko) Genetic divergence in pumpkin genotypes using ISSR markers (R.M.E. Borges, N.F. de Melo) New developments and challenges of cucumber production in western and northern European countries (I. Vänninen) Effects of organic farming practices on yield and quality of 'Barattiere', a local cultivar of Cucumis melo L. from Puglia (southern Italy) (M. Renna, A. Signore, C. Lasorella, P. Santamaria, E. Cazzato, M. Fracchiolla) How cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) cultivation can contribute to a sustainable fish production (S. Crappé, S. Buysens) Remote control of greenhouse cucumber production with artificial intelligence - results from the first international autonomous challenge (A. Elings, I. Righini, H.F. de Zwart, S. Hemming, A. Petropoulou) Importance of a sufficiently high temperature to prevent male flower shortage in zucchini (Cucurbita pepo L.) (S. Craeye, A. Decombel, J. De Win, P. Bleyaert) Response of organically grown mini watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai) to different green manure crops and nitrogen fertilization (M. Fracchiolla, C. Lasorella, P. Santamaria, M. Renna, A. Signore, E. Cazzato) The CucCAP project: leveraging applied genomics to improve disease resistance in cucurbit crops (R. Grumet, Z. Fei, A. Levi, M. Mazourek, J.D. McCreight, J. Schultheis, Y. Weng, M. Hausbeck, S. Kousik, K.S. Ling, A. Linares-Ramirez, C. McGregor, L. Quesada-Ocampo, U. Reddy, C. Smart, P. Wechter, T. Wehner, L. Wessel-Beaver, W.M. Wintermantel) Didymella bryoniae in cucumber: an integrated control strategy (J. De Win, S. Van Laethem, R. Aerts, M. Frans, P. Karsmakers, S. Van Kerckhove, A. Paeleman, S. Verhelst, P. Bleyaert, S. De Groote, S. Fabri) Identification of candidate genes for quantitative downy mildew resistance in cucumber - a review (J.A. Berg, F.W.K. Hermans, W.H. Vriezen, Y. Bai, H.J. Schouten) QTL analysis of seed size by a high-density GBS genetic map in watermelon (Citrullus lanatus L.) (Meiling Gao, Xiaoxue Liang, Yu Guo, Yanlin Zhang, Yue Gao, Xiujie Liu, Jixiu Liu, Xiao song Liu, Changbao Yu, Jiayi Li) An alternative method to maintain the quality of cucumbers with pre-storage UV-C treatment (P. Pristijono, M.C. Bowyer, J.B. Golding) First fruit inhibition and CRISPR-Cas9 inactivation of candidate genes to study the control of cucumber fruit set (D. Mitra, Y. Shnaider, A. Bar-Ziv, Y. Brotman, R. Perl-Treves) Genetic parameters and variability for commercial and nutritional quality attributes in pumpkin genotypes (R.M.E. Borges, M.A.C. de Lima) RNA-seq reveals molecular mechanisms behind chilling injury tolerance in ISW-treated zucchini fruit during cold storage (A. Chana-Muñoz, A. García, E. Aguado, J. Romero, G. Cebrián, J. Iglesias-Moya, D. Garrido, J. Cañizares, J.L. Valenzuela, M. Jamilena) Quantitative criteria of watermelon and squash seedlings used as scion and rootstock during grafting (F. Bantis, A. Koukounaras, A. Siomos, G. Menexes, C. Dangitsis, T. Koufakis) Use of germination and early radicle growth parameters for assessing oxidative stress tolerance in zucchini squash (G. Cebrián, A. García, E. Aguado, J. Romero, A. Chana-Muñoz, C. Martínez, J.L. Valenzuela, M. Guzmán, M. Jamilena) Interspecific hybrids of wild Cucumis species ('Fian' and 'Fimy'): new rootstocks for melon highly resistant to biotic soil stress (C. Gisbert, A. Cáceres, G. Perpiñà, A. Garcés-Claver, V. González, M.L. Gómez-Guillamón, B. Picó) The never-ending story of cucurbits and viruses (C. Desbiez) Epidemiology of zucchini viruses in Flanders in support of a sustainable management strategy (K. De Jonghe, M. De Backer, S. Darwich, D. Callens, S. Venneman, L. De Rooster) Incidence and genetic diversity of cucurbit viruses in Spain (A. Pérez-de-Castro, A.E. Martínez de Alba, C. Sáez, A. Flores, A. Sifres, M.L. Gómez-Guillamón, C. López, B. Picó) Screening of pumpkin breeding populations against potyviruses and geminiviruses, and for key fruit traits (S. Srimat, S. Laenoi, J. Suk-Woo, N.P.S. Dhillon) Functional validation of Fusarium wilt and potyvirus resistance genes in melon (S. Nizan, K. Pashkovsky, G. Miller, A. Amitzur, M. Normantovich, A. Bar-Ziv, R. Perl-Treves) Survival of Xanthomonas cucurbitae in the field (S. Thapa, M. Babadoost, S. Sulley) A novel dominant resistance gene for ToLCNDV in Cucurbita spp. (J. Romero, E. Aguado, C. Martínez, A. García, C. Cebrián, H.S. Paris, M. Jamilena) Searching for resistance to ZYMV among Cucurbita maxima cultivars (J. Svoboda, L. Leisova-Svobodova, P. Kominek) Plant biostimulants: new tool for enhancing agronomic performance and fruit quality of cucurbits (G. Colla, M. Cardarelli, Y. Rouphael)