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Details for: PI 135356,
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne, No. 5037
Summary
Passport
Taxonomy
Other
Pedigree
IPR
Observation
Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne
Top Name:
No. 5037
Origin:
Collected – Kābul, Afghanistan
Maintained:
Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)
Received by NPGS:
Feb 1940
PI Assigned:
1940
Backup Location:
National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation
Inventory Volume:
142
View original Plant Inventory data in pdf format
Availability
This accession is not available. Contact site for status.
Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)
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(6
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne
Top Name:
No. 5037
Origin:
Collected – Kābul, Afghanistan
Maintained:
Northeast Regional Plant Introduction Station (NE9)
Received by NPGS:
Feb 1940
PI Assigned:
1940
Source History
Collected
01 November 1939.
Kābul, Afghanistan
Locality:
Kabul
Collector(s):
Koelz, W.N., Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils & Agricultural Engineering
Donated
12 February 1940.
Afghanistan
Accession Names and Identifiers
No. 5037
Type: Collector identifier
Koelz, W.N. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils & Agricultural Engineering
Narrative
Fruit flattened, 11 by 7 inches; rind orange red with obscure rib lines of cream, smooth; flesh orange, not very sweet, smooth; flesh yellow, 3 inches thich, insipid.
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne
Genus:
Cucurbita
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Cucurbiteae
Nomen number:
12597
Place of publication:
Essai sur l'Histoire Naturelle des Courges 7. 1786 Aug-Sep? (J. B. A. P. M. de Lamarck, Encycl. 2:151. 1786 Oct)
Comment:
for author see Taxon 49:303-317. 2000
Verified:
06/29/2000
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
andreana
(Naudin) Filov
(6 active accession[s])
Cucurbita maxima
Duchesne subsp.
maxima
(91 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Common names
Language
Name
Alternate name
note
seq
Citation
English
great pumpkin
1
Hamid, S. et al.
1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
English
pumpkin
1
Wiersema, J. H. & B. León.
1999.
World economic plants: a standard reference
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English
red gourd
1
Hamid, S. et al.
1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
English
squash
1
Wiersema, J. H. & B. León.
1999.
World economic plants: a standard reference
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
English
winter squash
1
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
German
Reisen-Kürbis
2
Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
German
Speise-Kürbis
2
Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340.
Italian
zucca
2
International Seed Testing Association.
1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Japanese
kabocha
2
Cumarasamy, R. et al.
2002. Cultivar differences in New Zealand "Kabocha" (buttercup squash,
Cucurbita maxima
). New Zealand J. Crop Hort. Sci. 30:197-208.
DOI:
10.1080/01140671.2002.9514215
.
Spanish (Peru)
zapallo
2
Leiva González, S. et al.
2015. Cucurbitáceas utilizadas como alimentos en el Perú prehispánico. Arnaldoa 22:439-478.
Swedish
jättepumpa
2
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012.
Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese
sun gua
2
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-.
Flora of China (English edition).
Urdu (Pakistan)
halva kaddu
2
Hamid, S. et al.
1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
Urdu (Pakistan)
mitha kaddu
2
Hamid, S. et al.
1995. Medicinal plants of family Cucurbitaceae of Pakistan (part II). Hamdard 38:97.
Name
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Early passport and correspondance info
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Pathogens
Vouchers
Citations
Fassuliotis, G.
1971.
Susceptibility of Cucurbita spp. to the Root-Knot Nematode, Meloidogyne incognita
. Pl. Dis. Reporter 55(8):666.
Note:
Table 1: Plant Introductions of Cucurbit spp. evaluated for resistance to Meloidogyne incognita. (Data provided by author, not published.)
Number of accessions cited:
486
Hernandez C., J. Labate, K. Reitsma, J. Fabrizio, Kan Bao, Zhangiun Fei, R. Grumet, & M. Mazourek .
2023. Characterization of the USDA
Cucurbita pepo
,
C. moschata
, and
C. maxima
germplasm collections. Front. Plant Sci. 14:1130814.
DOI:
10.3389/fpls.2023.1130814
.
Note:
Supplementary material: Table 1.
Number of accessions cited:
1661
Pedigree
Material Transfer Agreement
Observations
Phenotype Data
Category
Descriptor
Description
Value
Sample Size
Study
Inventory
Availability
DISEASE
WATERMELON MOSAIC
SUSCEPTABILITY TO MOSAIC (WATERMELON).
7 - (1 = SLIGHT, 9 = SEVERE)
NE9.SQUASH.83
Not Available
DISEASE
POWDERY MILDEW
SUSCEPTABILITY TO POWDERY MILDEW
8 - (1 = SLIGHT, 9 = SEVERE)
NE9.SQUASH.83
Not Available
GROWTH
PLANT HABIT
GROWTH HABIT OF THE PLANT
2 - VINE
NE9.SQUASH.83
Not Available
GROWTH
UNIFORMITY
UNIFORMITY
5 - (1 = POOR, 9 = EXCELLENT)
NE9.SQUASH.83
Not Available
GROWTH
PLANT VIGOR
PLANT VIGOR
7 - (1 = POOR, 9 = EXCELLENT)
NE9.SQUASH.83
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FLESH DEPTH
DEPTH OF FLESH IN CM.
3.5
NE9.SQUASH.83
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FRUIT DIAMETER
DIAMETER OF FRUIT IN CM.
10
NE9.SQUASH.83
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FRUIT LENGTH
LENGTH OF FRUIT IN CM.
9
NE9.SQUASH.83
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FRUIT RIBBING
FRUIT RIBBING
2 - (1 = SLIGHT, 9 = PRONOUNCED)
NE9.SQUASH.83
Not Available
MORPHOLOGY
FRUIT SPOTTING
FRUIT SPOTTING
8 - (1 = SLIGHT, 9 = PRONOUNCED)
NE9.SQUASH.83
Not Available
PHENOLOGY
DAYS TO POLLINATION
NUMBER OF DAYS FROM TRANSPLANTING IN FIELD TO DATE OF FIRST POLLINATION (BOTH DAYS INCLUSIVE).
49
NE9.SQUASH.83
Not Available
PRODUCTION
FRUIT SET
FRUIT SET
9 - EXCELLENT
NE9.SQUASH.83
Not Available