{"id":13332,"date":"2022-12-08T09:17:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=13332"},"modified":"2023-03-02T02:23:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T07:23:45","slug":"cuccap-scientists-genetically-map-novel-sources-of-resistance-to-cucurbit-downy-mildew-in-watermelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2022\/12\/08\/cuccap-scientists-genetically-map-novel-sources-of-resistance-to-cucurbit-downy-mildew-in-watermelon\/","title":{"rendered":"CucCAP scientists genetically map novel sources of resistance to cucurbit downy mildew in watermelon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9889 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/11\/watermelon-small-logo.jpg\" alt=\"watermelon graphic\" width=\"100\" height=\"93\" \/>Watermelon crops are increasingly threatened by infection by cucurbit downy mildew (CDM), caused by\u00a0<i>Pseudoperonospora cubensis<\/i>.<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0 While there are limited sources of disease resistance within cultivated watermelon (<i>Citrullus lanatus<\/i>), a related species,\u00a0<i>C. amarus<\/i>, can be a valuable source of resistances.\u00a0 CucCAP scientists at USDA<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">,\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">ARS<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">, U.S. Vegetable Laboratory and<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">\u00a0Clemson University Coastal Research and Education Center (CREC) at Charleston<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">,\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">SC performed CDM disease\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">resistance\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">screening and whole genome resequencing of 122\u00a0<i>C. amarus<\/i>\u00a0accessions.\u00a0 Genome wide association analysis (GWAS) of these materials identified several marker-trait associations and candidate genes, providing potential resources for genomics-assisted breeding for resistance to CDM in\u00a0watermelon.<\/span><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">For further reading:<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apsjournals.apsnet.org\/doi\/10.1094\/PDIS-08-21-1611-RE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Resistance to Pseudoperonospora cubensis in Citron Watermelon<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span>by: Dennis N. Katuuramu, Sandra E. Branham, Amnon Levi, and W. Patrick Wechter<br \/>\nPublished Online in Plant Disease, Vol. 106, pages 1952-1958 on June 13, 2022<br \/>\nDOI: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1094\/PDIS-08-21-1611-RE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1094\/PDIS-08-21-1611-RE<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watermelon crops are increasingly threatened by infection by cucurbit downy mildew. While there are limited sources of disease resistance within cultivated watermelon, Citrullus amarus can be a valuable source of resistances.\u00a0CucCAP scientists performed disease\u00a0resistance\u00a0screening and whole genome resequencing of 122\u00a0C. amarus\u00a0accessions.\u00a0 Genome wide association analysis of these materials identified several marker-trait associations and candidate genes, providing potential resources for genomics-assisted breeding for resistance to CDM in\u00a0watermelon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267,419],"tags":[571,187,493,572],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13332"}],"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=13332"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13652,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13332\/revisions\/13652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}