Cucurbits

Revised edition of: Cucurbits / R.W. Robinson and D.S. Decker-Walters. c1997.

About the author

Dr. Todd C. Wehner is leader of the cucumber and watermelon breeding project at North Carolina State University-Raleigh since 1979. His research has emphasized improved selection methods; recurrent selection for fruit yield, earliness and quality; resistance to chilling, nematodes, potyviruses, and fungal diseases; and germplasm evaluation. His objectives are to provide industry with new traits for the development of improved cultivars, research information, and graduate students who can run field plant breeding programs. He has been an instructor for the Plant Breeding Academy-America at UC Davis since 2006, and also works for PBA-Asia and PBA-Africa. Dr. Wehner was an advisor for production of pickling cucumber in Sri Lanka in 1993, watermelon in China in 1999 and 2008, and Poland in 2004. He participated in expeditions to collect germplasm from China in 1994, the Republic of South Africa in 1996, and Turkmenistan in 2008, and traveled professionally in Israel, Mexico, the Czech Republic, Canada, Thailand, France, Tanzania (Tanganyika and Zanzibar), Turkey, and Kenya. Dr. Wehner has his A.B. in Botany (UC Berkeley), M.S. in Agronomy and Ph.D. in Plant Breeding (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Summary

Completely updated with new content and full-colour figures throughout, this new edition provides succinct and authoritative knowledge relating to the production of cucurbits, including cucumbers, gourds, muskmelons, pumpkins, squashes and watermelons, and reflects on significant recent advances in the areas of production, breeding and evolution.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Crosby, Professor Kevin (Texas A&M University Crosby, Dr Narinder P S (World Vegetable Center Dhillon, Narinder P S Dhillon, James R Myers, James R. Myers, Professor James (Oregon State University Myers, Professor James R. (Oregon State University Myers, Dr Rachel (USDA ARS Naegele, Dr Rachel P. (USDA ARS Naegele, Rachel Naegele, Rachel P Naegele, Rachel P. Naegele, Professor Todd C (North Carolina State University Wehner, Todd C Wehner, Todd C. Wehner
• Publisher: CAB INTERNATIONAL
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781786392916
• ISBN: 978-1-78639-291-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Crop Production Science in Horticulture; Crop Production Science in Hor
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works