Abstract Background Cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. is an important vegetable crop
worldwide. Until very recently, cucumber genetic and genomic resources, especially …

Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series furnishes information on
the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding …

The Cucurbitaceae includes important crops such as cucumber, melon, watermelon, squash
and pumpkin. However, few genetic and genomic resources are available for plant …

There are five cultivated species of pepper, of which Capsicum annuum is the most widely
cultivated as a vegetable or spice and the main experimental material of most pepper …

Cucurbita pepo (pumpkin, squash, gourd), an economically important species of the
Cucurbitaceae, is extremely variable in fruit characteristics. The objective of the present …

Until recently, only a few microsatellites have been available for Cucurbita, thus their
development is highly desirable. The Austrian oil-pumpkin variety Gleisdorfer Ölkürbis (C …

A set of 171 recombinant inbred lines (RIL) were developed from a narrow cross in
cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.; 2n= 2 x= 14) using the determinate (de), gynoecious (F) …

Catechins are the most important bioactive compounds in tea, and have been demonstrated
to possess a wide variety of pharmacological activities. To characterize quantitative trait loci …

A high-density genetic map with a number of anchor markers has been created to be used
as a tool to dissect genetic variation in rose. Linkage maps for the diploid 94/1 population …

Of the Capsicum peppers (Capsicum spp.), cultivated C. annuum is the most commercially
important, but has lacked an intraspecific linkage map based on sequence-specific PCR …