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Details for: PI 124111,
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
, 2563
Summary
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Taxonomy
Other
Pedigree
IPR
Observation
Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
Top Name:
2563
Origin:
Collected – Bihar, India
Maintained:
North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station
Received by NPGS:
May 1937
PI Assigned:
1937
Improvement Status:
Landrace
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Vine
Life Cycle:
Annual
Backup Location:
National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation
Inventory Volume:
131
View original Plant Inventory data in pdf format
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Seed
50 count
PI 124111 05ncai01 SD
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
Top Name:
2563
Origin:
Collected – Bihar, India
Maintained:
North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station
Received by NPGS:
May 1937
PI Assigned:
1937
Improvement Status:
Landrace
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Vine
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Collected
02 April 1937.
Bihar, India
Comment:
Calcutta.
Collector(s):
Koelz, Walter Norman, USDA-Bureau of Plant Industry
Donated
24 May 1937.
Maryland, United States
Donor(s):
Koelz, Walter Norman, USDA-Bureau of Plant Industry
Accession Names and Identifiers
2563
Type: Collector identifier
Narrative
Fruit flattened, 5 by 3 inches, ribbed, rib lines orange, smooth to obscurely netted.
Cucumis melo
L. subspp.
melo
Genus:
Cucumis
Subgenus:
Cucumis
Section:
Cucumis
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Benincaseae
Nomen number:
12564
Verified:
02/06/1996
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Cucumis melo
L.
(151 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo
(171 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
agrestis
Naudin
(0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
chate
(Hasselq.) Sageret
(0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
chito
(C. Morren) Naudin
(1 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
conomon
(Thunb.) Makino
(3 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
dudaim
(L.) Naudin
(0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
momordica
(Roxb.) Duthie & J. B. Fuller
(0 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
agrestis
(Naudin) Pangalo var.
texanus
Naudin
(45 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
var.
cantalupo
Ser.
(21 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
var.
flexuosus
(L.) Naudin
(47 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
var.
inodorus
H. Jacq.
(3 active accession[s])
Cucumis melo
L. var.
melo
(0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Bryonia collosa
Rottler
Cucumis collosus
(Rottler) Cogn.
Cucumis trigonus
Roxb.
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
melon
1
Wiersema, J. H. & B. León.
1999.
World economic plants: a standard reference
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
German
Melone
2
Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
Italian
melone
2
International Seed Testing Association.
1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Japanese Rōmaji
meron
2
Iwatsuki, K. et al.
1993-. Flora of Japan.
Swedish
melon
2
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012.
Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese
tian gua
2
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-.
Flora of China (English edition).
Transcribed Korean
chamoe
2
Mun-Chan, B. et al.
1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:93.
Name
References
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Citations
Akashi, Y., N. Fukuda, T. Wako, M. Masuda, & K. Kato.
2002. Genetic variation and phylogenetic relationships in East and South Asian melons,
Cucumis melo
L., based on the analysis of five isozymes. Euphytica 125:385-396.
DOI:
10.1023/A:1016086206423
.
Note:
Netherlands journal of plant breeding
Number of accessions cited:
65
Beharav, A. & Y. Cohen.
1994.
Attempts to Overcome Barrier of Interspecific Hybridization between
Cucumis melo
and
C. metuliferus
.
Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 17:90-93.
Note:
Text & Table 2.
Number of accessions cited:
2
Beharav, A. & Y. Cohen.
1994.
Effect of Gamma-Radiation on vitality and Fertilization Ability of
Cucumis melo
and
C. metuliferus
Pollen.
Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 17:94-96.
Note:
Text & Table 2.
Number of accessions cited:
2
Beharav, A. & Y. Cohen.
1994.
The Crossability of
Cucumis melo
and
C. metuliferus
, an Investigation of
In Vivo
Pollen Tube Growth.
Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 17:97-100.
Note:
Text.
Number of accessions cited:
1
Cohen, Y. & H. Eyal.
1988.
Reaction of Muskmelon Genotypes to Races 1 and 2 of
Sphaerotheca fuliginea
in Israel.
Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 11:47-49.
Note:
Text & Table 1. Reported as C. melo var reticulatus. Correct accession C. melo subsp melo
Number of accessions cited:
3
Cui, Lei, L. Siskos, Chen Wang, H. Schouten, R. G.F. Visser, & Yuling Bai.
2022. Breeding melon (
Cucumis melo
) with resistance to powdery mildew and down mildew. Hort. Pl. J. 8(5):545-561.
DOI:
10.1016/j.hpj.2022.07.006
.
Note:
a publication of Chinese Society for Horticultural Science, and Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Number of accessions cited:
3
Dhillon, N. P. S., R. Ranjana, K. Singh, I Eduardo, A. Monforte, M. Pitrat, N. K. Dhillon, & P. P. Singh.
2007. Diversity among landraces of Indian snapmelon (
Cucumis melo
var.
momordica
. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 54:1267-1283.
DOI:
10.1007/s10722-006-9108-2
.
Number of accessions cited:
13
Dhillon, N., A. Monforte, M. Pitrat, S. Pandey, P. Singh, K. Reitsma, J. Garcia-Mas, A. Sharma & J. McCreight.
2011. Melon Landraces of India: Contributions and Importance. Pl. Breed. Rev. 35:85-150
DOI:
10.1002/9781118100509.ch3.
.
Number of accessions cited:
44
Lebeda, A., B. Sedláková, E. Křístková, M. Vajdová, & J. McCreight.
2012. Application of a new approach for characterization and denomination of races of cucurbit powdery mildews–a case study of Czech pathogen populations. In: Sari, N. et al., eds., Proceedings of the Xth Eucarpia meeting on genetics and breeding of Cucubitaceae, Antalya, Turkey, 15-18 October 2012 172-180.
Note:
Oral Presentations
Number of accessions cited:
15
Lebeda, A., E. Kristkova, B. Sedlakova, J. McCreight, & M. Coffey.
2016. Cucurbit powdery mildews: methodology for objective determination and denomination of races. Eur. J. Pl. Pathol. 144:399-410.
DOI:
10.1007/s10658-015-0776-7
.
Number of accessions cited:
30
Malik, A., V. Vashisht, K. Singh, A. Sharma, D. K. Singh, H. Singh, A. Monforte, K. McCreight, & P. S. Dhillon.
20014. Diversity among melon (
Cucumis melo
L.) landraces from the Indo-Gangetic plains of India and their genetic relationship with USA melon cultivars. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 61:1189-1208.
DOI:
10.1007/s10722-014-0101-x
.
Number of accessions cited:
6
McCreight, J. D. & M. Pitrat.
1993.
Club Mildew: Working Group on Resistance of Melon to Powdery Mildew
. Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 16:39
Note:
Text.
Number of accessions cited:
2
McCreight, J. D., H. Liu, & T. A. Turini.
2008. Genetic Resistance to Cucurbit Leaf Crumple Virus in Melon. HortScience 43(1):122-126.
DOI:
10.21273/HORTSCI.43.1.122
.
Number of accessions cited:
7
McCreight, J. D.
1991.
Potential Sources of Resistance to Lettuce Infectious Yellows in Melon
. Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 14:51-52.
Note:
Text & Table 1.
Number of accessions cited:
2
McCreight, J. D.
1992.
Preliminary Screening of Melons for Sweetpotato Whitefly Resistance.
Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 15:59-61.
Note:
Table 1.
Number of accessions cited:
151
McCreight, J. D.
2001. Resistant Blister Reaction to Powdery Mildew in Melon PI 313970 and PI 124111. Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 24:22.
Number of accessions cited:
2
McCreight, J., M. Coffey, B. Sedlakova, & A. Lebeda.
2012. Cucurbit powdery mildew of melon incited by Podosphaera xanthii: Global and western U.S. perspectives . In: Sari, N. et al., eds., Proceedings of the Xth Eucarpia meeting on genetics and breeding of Cucubitaceae, Antalya, Turkey, 15-18 October 2012 181-189.
Note:
Oral Presentations
Number of accessions cited:
8
McCreight, J., M. Pitrat, C. Thomas, A. Kishaba, & G. W. Bohn.
1987. Powdery Mildew Resistance Genes in Muskmelon. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 112(1):156-160.
DOI:
10.21273/JASHS.112.1.156
.
Number of accessions cited:
5
McCreight, J.
2006. Melon-Powdery Mildew Interactions Reveal Variation in Melon Cultigens and
Podosphaera xanthii
Races 1 and 2. . J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 31(1):59-65.
DOI:
10.21273/JASHS.131.1.59
.
Number of accessions cited:
7
Pitrat, M, & D. Besombes.
2008. Inheritance of
Podosphaera xanthii
resistance in melon line '90625'. In: Pitrat, M., ed., Proceedings of the IXth EUCARPIA meeting on genetics and breeding of Cucurbitaceae, INRA, Avignon, France, 21-24 May, 2008 135-142.
Note:
INRA, Paris.
Number of accessions cited:
3
Pitrat, M.
2008. Melon. In: Prohens, J. & F. Nuez, eds., Handbook of Plant Breeding. Vegetables I 1:283-315.
Number of accessions cited:
16
Santos, L., W. Candido, H. Rabelo, M. Marin, L. Gaion, F. Gomes, M. Camargo, & L. Braz.
2017. Reaction of melon genotypes to
Didymella bryoniae
(Fuckel) Rehm. Chilean J. Agric. Res. 77(1):71-77.
DOI:
10.4067/S0718-58392017000100009
.
Number of accessions cited:
19
Staub, J., J. Box, B. Meglic, T. Horejsi & J. McCreight.
1997. Comparison of isozyme and random amplified polymorphic DNA data for determining intraspecific variation in
Cucumis
. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 44:257-269.
DOI:
10.1023/A:1008639616331
.
Number of accessions cited:
8
Swamy, K. R. M & P. Nath.
2020. Culinary Melon of South India. Int. J. Veg. Sci. 47:157-175.
DOI:
10.61180/vegsci.2020.v47.i2.01
.
Note:
Table 2.
Number of accessions cited:
11
Tanaka, K., A. Nishitani, Y. Akashi, Y. Sakata, H. Yoshino, & K. Kato.
2007. Molecular characterization of South and East Asian melon,
Cucumis melo
L., and the origin of Group Conomon var.
makuwa
and var.
conomon
revealed by RAPD analysis . Euphytica 153:233-247.
DOI:
10.1007/s10681-006-9259-4
.
Note:
Netherlands journal of plant breeding
Number of accessions cited:
44
Thomas, C. & E. Jourdain.
1992. Evaluation of Melon Germplasm for Resistance to Downy Mildew. HortScience 27(5):434-436.
DOI:
10.21273/HORTSCI.27.5.434
.
Number of accessions cited:
82
Thomas, C.E.
1986. Downy and Powdery Mildew Resistant Muskmelon Breeding Line MR-1. HortScience 21(2):329.
Number of accessions cited:
1
Pedigree
Material Transfer Agreement
Observations
Phenotype Data
Category
Descriptor
Description
Value
Sample Size
Study
Inventory
Availability
DISEASE
ANTHRACNOSE
RESISTANCE TO ANTHRACNOSE (COLLETOTRICHUM LAGENARIUM)
9 - SUSCEPTIBLE
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
DISEASE
STEM BLIGHT
RESISTANCE TO GUMMY STEM BLIGHT (MYCOSPHAERELLA CITRULLINA)
9 - SUSCEPTIBLE
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FLESH COLOR
MATURE FLESH COLOR
4 - SALMON
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FLESH THICKNESS
FLESH THICKNESS IN CENTIMETERS
1
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FRUIT COLOR
MATURE FRUIT COLOR
2 - ORANGE
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FRUIT DIAMETER
FRUIT DIAMETER IN CENTIMETERS
15
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FRUIT LENGTH
FRUIT LENGTH IN CENTIMETERS
10
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FRUIT SHAPE
MATURE FRUIT SHAPE
3 - OBLATE
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FRUIT SURFACE
CHARACTER OF FRUIT SURFACE
2 - FURROWED
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
NEMATODE
ROOT KNOT NEMATODE
Resistance to Root Knot Nematode (Caused by Cotton Root Nematode - Meloidogyne incognita acrita). Data supplied by G. Fassuliotis & G. Rau, U.S. Veg. Lab, Charleston, SC.
9 - SUSCEPTIBLE
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
OTHER
IMAGE/PICTURE1
IMAGE PRESENT IN GRIN DATABASE
FRUIT - Image of fruit.
CUCUMIS.PHOTOGRAPH.FRUIT
PI 124111 87ncsi01 SD
Not Available
PHENOLOGY
MATURITY
RELATIVE TIME OF MATURATION
5 - MIDSEASON (71-90 DAYS)
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
PRODUCTION
100 SEED WEIGHT
100 SEED WEIGHT
2.5
NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLE
PI 124111 88nceo01 SD
Not Available
PRODUCTION
100 SEED WEIGHT
100 SEED WEIGHT
2.71
NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLE
PI 124111 05ncai01 SD
PRODUCTION
100 SEED WEIGHT
100 SEED WEIGHT
2.83
NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLE
PI 124111 87ncsi01 SD
Not Available
PRODUCTION
100 SEED WEIGHT
100 SEED WEIGHT
2.84
NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLE
PI 124111 89ncai01 SD
Not Available