Details for: Ames 35629, Cucumis melo L. subsp. melo var. cantalupo Ser., USDA 846-1 (Fractal Melon)


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cucumis melo L. subsp. melo var. cantalupo Ser.
Top Name:
USDA 846-1 (Fractal Melon)
Origin:
Developed – California, United States
Received by NPGS:
22 Dec 2020
Improvement Status:
Breeding material
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Vine
Life Cycle:
Annual
Availability
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cucumis melo L. subsp. melo var. cantalupo Ser.
Top Name:
USDA 846-1 (Fractal Melon)
Origin:
Developed – California, United States
Received by NPGS:
22 Dec 2020
Improvement Status:
Breeding material
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Vine
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Developed
NEAR 2011.
California, United States

Developer(s):
Donated
22 December 2020.
California, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
USDA 846-1 (Fractal Melon)
Type: Developer identifier
Mccreight, James D. USDA, ARS

Ames 35629
Type: Site identifier
Group: AMES
NC-7 Research Numbers

Narrative
A monoecious, early-flowering (in Wisconsin) plant chosen from a three-way cross and self-pollinated four generations with concomitant selection for branching, earliness, and monoecy to produce an S4 line designated USDA 846-1. The deposited seed is a bulk of nine sib-pollinated plants from the original material. Fruit are slightly netted, non-ribbed, free of vein tracts, and typically oval. Indeterminate; monoecious; producing 2-5 concentrated crown-set fruit, on 5 to 8 primary branches (fractal architectural habit); capable of multiple fruiting cycles at commercial spacing (0.35 m within-row spacing on 2 m center).
Cucumis melo L. subspp. melo var. cantalupo Ser.
Genus:
Cucumis
Subgenus:
Cucumis
Section:
Cucumis
Family:
Cucurbitaceae
Tribe:
Benincaseae
Nomen number:

464596
Place of publication:

Prodr. 3:300. 1828
Comment:
or Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group
Verified:
03/05/2012 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 (3056 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)
Cucumis melo L. var. cantalupensis Naudin
Cucumis melo L. var. reticulatus Naudin

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishcantaloupe as Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis1Munger, H. M. & R. W. Robinson. 1991. Nomenclature of Cucumis melo L. Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 14:43. Note: as Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis
EnglishCharentais melon as Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group1Lim, T. K. 2012. Edible medicinal and non-medicinal plants. Six volumes 201-203. Note: treats as Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group
Englishmuskmelon as Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis1Munger, H. M. & R. W. Robinson. 1991. Nomenclature of Cucumis melo L. Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 14:43. Note: as Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis
Englishnetted melon as Cucumis melo Reticulatus Group1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada Note: = Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group
Englishnutmeg melon as Cucumis melo Reticulatus Group1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada Note: = Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group
EnglishPersian melon as Cucumis melo Reticulatus Group1Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada Note: = Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group
English (Australia)rock melon as Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis2Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia Note: as Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis
Frenchmélon as Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: as Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis
GermanKantalupe as Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group2Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1340. Note: treats as Cucumis melo Cantalupensis Group
GermanZuckermelone as Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: as Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis
Portuguesemelão as Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: as Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis
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Citations
  • Staub, J. E., J. D. McCreight, & J. E. Zalapa. 2011. USDA 846-1 fractal melon and derived recombinant inbred lines. HortScience 46:1423-1425. DOI: 10.21273/HORTSCI.46.10.1423. Number of accessions cited: 1
Pedigree
Description:
Originated from a cross of CR1 x F1(FMR#3 x SC#6). CR1 is an accession of what was at the time classified as C. melo ssp. agrestis, but currently may be regarded as C. melo Group Agrestis (Pitrat, 2016); it has a fractal growth habit (Staub et al., 2011). Breeding line FMR#3 was an F3 selection from a cross of Galia x Qalya (Paris et al., 1989) and may be characterized as C. melo Group Inodorus. Breeding line SC#6 was an S5 from a complex cross of Eastern U.S. market-type melons (C. melo Group Cantalupensis Sub-group American Eastern) selected by Perry E. Nugent (retired, USDA-ARS, U.S. Vegetable Laboratory, Charleston, SC) for germinability at low temperature. A monoecious, early-flowering (in Wisconsin) plant was chosen from this three-way cross and self-pollinated four generations with concomitant selection for branching, earliness, and monoecy to produce an S4 line designated USDA 846-1. The deposited seed is a bulk of nine sib-pollinated plants from the original material.
Fruit of this line are slightly netted, non-ribbed, free of vein tracts (Davis, 1970), and typically oval.
Literature Cited
Davis, R.M. 1970. Vein tracts not sutures in cantaloupe. HortScience 5:86.
Paris, H.S., Y. Burger, H. Nerson, and M. Edelstein. 1989. Qalya-a new muskmelon hybrid for export. Hassadeh 69(3):434-435.
Pitrat, M. 2016. Melon genetic resources: phenotypic diversity and horticultural taxonomy, p. 25–60. In: R. Grumet, N. Katzir, and J. Garcia-Mas (eds.). Genetics and Genomics of Cucurbitaceae. Springer Science+Media, New York. doi: 10.1007/7397_2016_10.
Staub, J.E., J.D. McCreight, and J.E. Zalapa. 2011. USDA 846-1 fractal melon and derived recombinant inbred lines HortScience 46:1423–1425.