{"id":11792,"date":"2021-12-03T11:54:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T16:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=11792"},"modified":"2021-12-21T16:08:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T21:08:54","slug":"cuccap-researchers-compile-analysis-of-genetic-resources-and-vulnerabilities-for-cucurbit-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2021\/12\/03\/cuccap-researchers-compile-analysis-of-genetic-resources-and-vulnerabilities-for-cucurbit-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"CucCAP researchers compile analysis of genetic resources and vulnerabilities for cucurbit crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/genes\/genes-12-01222\/article_deploy\/html\/images\/genes-12-01222-g001-550.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/genes\/genes-12-01222\/article_deploy\/html\/images\/genes-12-01222-g001-550.jpg\" alt=\"a variety of cucurbit fruits\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cucurbit crops exhibit extensive diversity in fruit size, shape and color. Image credit: <em>Genes<\/em> 2021 12(8)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crop production is vulnerable to numerous environmental and biotic stresses.\u00a0 Our ability to breed resistant crops requires access to diversity that arises from evolution of crops and their progenitors in a wide range of environments. \u00a0Germplasm collections maintained by the US National Plant Germplasm System and those of other countries are critical sources of diversity utilized by breeders for crop improvement.\u00a0 This review summarizes status of collections and vulnerabilities for cucurbit crops.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2073-4425\/12\/8\/1222\/htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Genetic resources and vulnerabilities of major cucurbit crops<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nby Rebecca Grumet, James D. McCreight, Cecilia McGregor, Yiqun Weng, Michael Mazourek, Kathleen Reitsma, Joanne Labate, Angela Davis, and Zhangjun Fei.<br \/>\nPublished by Genes (Volume 12, issue 8) on August 7, 2021.<br \/>\nDOI: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/genes12081222\">10.3390\/genes12081222<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germplasm collections maintained by the US National Plant Germplasm System and those of other countries are critical sources of diversity utilized by breeders for crop improvement.\u00a0 This review summarizes status of collections and vulnerabilities for cucurbit crops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[457,184,470,335,337,460],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11792"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11792"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11870,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11792\/revisions\/11870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}