{"id":7689,"date":"2019-05-15T18:15:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T22:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=7689"},"modified":"2021-09-23T18:16:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T22:16:01","slug":"charleston-gray-watermelon-sequenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2019\/05\/15\/charleston-gray-watermelon-sequenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Charleston Gray watermelon sequenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USDA news service posted an article in May 2019 about teamwork among CucCAP scientists on watermelon genomics.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The research team, led by ARS geneticist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/people-locations\/person\/?person-id=3326\">Amnon Levi<\/a>\u00a0at the ARS\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ars.usda.gov\/southeast-area\/charleston-sc\/vegetable-research\/\">U.S. Vegetable Laboratory<\/a>, in Charleston, South Carolina, and Zhangjun Fei at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/btiscience.org\/\">Boyce Thompson Institute<\/a>\u00a0in Ithaca, New York, collaborated with scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute on the assembly of the principal American watermelon cultivar \u201cCharleston Gray\u201d genome. 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