{"id":8622,"date":"2019-04-15T17:10:03","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/?p=8622"},"modified":"2021-09-23T18:23:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T22:23:56","slug":"harvesting-genes-to-improve-watermelons-the-global-plant-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/2019\/04\/15\/harvesting-genes-to-improve-watermelons-the-global-plant-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvesting Genes to Improve Watermelons | The Global Plant Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Publications from CucCAP scientists Zhangjun Fei and Amnon Levi were highlighted in a recent article from The Global Plant Council.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the past 20 to 30 years, plant breeders have crossed cultivated watermelon with the sister species\u00a0<em>C. amarus<\/em>\u00a0and two other wild relatives,\u00a0<em>C. mucusospermus<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>C. colocynthis<\/em>, to make the dessert watermelon more resistant to nematode pests, drought, and diseases like Fusarium wilt and powdery mildew.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-default btn-md\" href=\"https:\/\/globalplantcouncil.org\/harvesting-genes-to-improve-watermelons\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publications from CucCAP scientists Zhangjun Fei and Amnon Levi were highlighted in a recent article from The Global Plant Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270,267],"tags":[457,187],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622"}],"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=8622"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11440,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions\/11440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/132.236.156.160\/cuccap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}