{"id":7472,"date":"2019-03-31T21:13:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T01:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=7472"},"modified":"2022-03-22T17:34:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T21:34:21","slug":"cuccap-research-identifies-novel-genetic-source-of-resistance-to-fusarium-wilt-race-1-in-wild-watermelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2019\/03\/31\/cuccap-research-identifies-novel-genetic-source-of-resistance-to-fusarium-wilt-race-1-in-wild-watermelon\/","title":{"rendered":"CucCAP research identifies novel genetic source of resistance to Fusarium wilt race 1 in wild watermelon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fusarium wilt race 1, caused by the soil-borne fungus <em>Fusarium oxysporum<\/em> Schlechtend.: Fr. f. sp. <em>niveum <\/em>(E.F. Sm.) W.C. Snyder &amp; H.N. Hans (<em>Fon<\/em>), is a major disease of watermelon (<em>Citrullus lanatus<\/em>) in the United States and throughout the world. While Fusarium wilt race 1 resistance from chromosome 1 has been incorporated into several watermelon cultivars, identification of additional genetic sources of resistance is crucial if a durable and sustainable level of resistance is to be continued over the years. In a recent study (supported by the USDA-SCRI CucCAP project), CucCAP scientists at the USDA-ARS, US Vegetable Laboratory identified a major QTL (<em>qFon1-9<\/em>) associated with resistance to <em>Fon <\/em>race 1 on chromosome 9<em>. <\/em>This discovery provides a novel genetic source of resistance to Fusarium wilt race 1 in watermelon, and thus an additional host-resistance option for watermelon breeders to further the effort to mitigate this serious phytopathogen.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Read the article:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apsjournals.apsnet.org\/doi\/10.1094\/PDIS-09-18-1677-RE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">QTL Mapping Identifies Novel Source of Resistance to Fusarium Wilt Race 1 in <em>Citrullus amarus<\/em><\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nBy: Sandra E. Branham, Amnon Levi, and W. Patrick Wechter<br \/>\nPublished Online:11 Mar 2019 in Plant Disease (APS Publications)<br \/>\n<strong>DOI<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1094\/PDIS-09-18-1677-RE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10.1094\/PDIS-09-18-1677-RE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CucCAP scientists at the USDA-ARS, US Vegetable Laboratory identified a major QTL (qFon1-9) associated with resistance to Fon race 1 on chromosome 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267,419],"tags":[481,187,572],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472"}],"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=7472"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10805,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7472\/revisions\/10805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}