{"id":6411,"date":"2018-06-11T17:58:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T21:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=6411"},"modified":"2023-07-26T17:40:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T21:40:02","slug":"melon-field-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2018\/06\/11\/melon-field-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Melon Field Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CucCAP melon breeders, industry representatives and other participants interested in Powdery Mildew replicated trials &amp; natural infection and a Core set of means for trains assays, joined Dr. Jim McCreight at the University of California Desert Research and Extension Center on June 7, 2018 for a Melon Field Day.<\/p>\n<p>The group looked for <strong>Powdery Mildew<\/strong> on 47 melon entries, including the \u201cstandards,\u201d candidate accessions, and the 21-line triple septet set proposed by Lebeda et al.* They also observed <strong>the core collection<\/strong> including ca. 384 melon cultigens tentatively selected to represent the genetic variation in the larger set of 2000+ USDA, GRIN accessions and \u2018heirloom\u2019 lines. More details about the Melon Core Collection can be found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/05\/CucCAP_2018.pdf\">2017 CucCAP annual report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*The following documents provide more information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10658-015-0776-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cucurbit powdery mildews: methodology for objective determination and denomination of races<\/a>. European Journal of Plant Pathology<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/313960119_Initiative_for_international_cooperation_of_researchers_and_breeders_related_to_determination_and_denomination_of_cucurbit_powdery_mildew_races\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Initiative for international cooperation of researchers and breeders related to determination and denomination of cucurbit powdery mildew races<\/a>\u00a0Cucurbitaceae 2016, XIth Eucarpia Meeting on Genetics and Breeding of Cucurbitaceae, Warsaw, Poland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6411 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/Patti-Nassif-Xuemi-and-Kaori-300x199.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"Jim speaks to a group in the melon field\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6415\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/Patti-Nassif-Xuemi-and-Kaori-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/Patti-Nassif-Xuemi-and-Kaori-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/Patti-Nassif-Xuemi-and-Kaori.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6415'>\n\t\t\t\tUSDA-ARS scientists and seed company representatives visit melon plots.\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/Jim-McCreight-and-Xuemi-300x199.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"people meet in melon field\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6412\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/Jim-McCreight-and-Xuemi-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/Jim-McCreight-and-Xuemi-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/Jim-McCreight-and-Xuemi.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6412'>\n\t\t\t\tField day participants discuss powdery mildew resistance in melon. \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"154\" src=\"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/powdery-mildew-observation-300x154.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"people look at melon plants\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6414\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/powdery-mildew-observation-300x154.jpg 300w, http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/powdery-mildew-observation-150x77.jpg 150w, http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/powdery-mildew-observation.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6414'>\n\t\t\t\t&#8220;There is powdery mildew in here\u2026&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"155\" src=\"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/taking-notes-300x155.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"field day participants taking notes in the melon field\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-6417\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/taking-notes-300x155.jpg 300w, http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/taking-notes-150x78.jpg 150w, http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/06\/taking-notes.jpg 598w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-6417'>\n\t\t\t\tUSDA-ARS scientists and industry representatives take notes in the melon field.\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CucCAP melon breeders, industry representatives and other participants interested in Powdery Mildew replicated trials &amp; natural infection and a Core set of means for trains assays, joined Dr. Jim McCreight at the University of California Desert Research and Extension Center on June 7, 2018 for a Melon Field Day. The group looked for Powdery Mildew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[199,370,335,12,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411"}],"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=6411"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14481,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6411\/revisions\/14481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}