{"id":15363,"date":"2018-01-03T12:18:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T17:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=15363"},"modified":"2024-01-03T12:33:48","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T17:33:48","slug":"breeding-cucurbita-moschata-varieties-for-resistance-to-downy-mildew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2018\/01\/03\/breeding-cucurbita-moschata-varieties-for-resistance-to-downy-mildew\/","title":{"rendered":"Breeding <em>Cucurbita moschata<\/em> varieties for resistance to downy mildew"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Winter Squash Evaluation and Improvement for Downy Mildew Resistance and Fruit Quality<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.sare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fruit-from-Plant-68-768x576.png\" alt=\"butternut sqauash\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/>The goal of this project was to identify and develop high quality <em>Cucurbita moschata<\/em> (winter squash and tropical pumpkin) varieties that thrive under low-input, organic management in Virginia\u2019s hot and humid conditions, especially in terms of resistance to downy mildew.<\/p>\n<p>The final project report for this USDA_SARE project was published in December 2017.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-default btn-md\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.sare.org\/project-reports\/fs16-291\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2016 growing season Common Wealth Seed Growers conducted winter squash research that included a variety trial of 23 seedstocks; three selection projects (&#8216;Seminole Pumpkin,&#8217; &#8216;Chinese Tropical Pumpkin&#8217; and &#8216;Cuban Neck Pumpkin\u2019); and a breeding trial with F5 seeds from a cross of &#8216;Seminole Pumpkin&#8217; and &#8216;Waltham Butternut.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[399,470,210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15363"}],"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=15363"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15372,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15363\/revisions\/15372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}