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Details for: PI 207478,
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
, 12652
Summary
Passport
Taxonomy
Other
Pedigree
IPR
Observation
Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
Top Name:
12652
Origin:
Collected – Kābul, Afghanistan
Maintained:
North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station
Received by NPGS:
29 Oct 1953
PI Assigned:
1953
Improvement Status:
Landrace
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Vine
Life Cycle:
Annual
Backup Location:
National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation
Inventory Volume:
161
View original Plant Inventory data in pdf format
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Seed
50 count
PI 207478 91ncai01 SD
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Cucumis melo
L. subsp.
melo
Top Name:
12652
Origin:
Collected – Kābul, Afghanistan
Maintained:
North Central Regional Plant Introduction Station
Received by NPGS:
29 Oct 1953
PI Assigned:
1953
Improvement Status:
Landrace
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Vine
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Collected
September 1953.
Kābul, Afghanistan
Comment:
Collected in September and October
Collector(s):
Gentry, Howard Scott, Crops Research Division - USDA-ARS
Donated
29 October 1953.
Maryland, United States
Donor(s):
Gentry, Howard Scott, Crops Research Division - USDA-ARS
Accession Names and Identifiers
12652
Type: Collector identifier
Narrative
Fruits long, serpentine. Received as C. sativus.
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
Annotations
Other Links
Actions
Pathogens
Vouchers
Citations
Aierken, Y., Y. Akashi, P. Nhi, Y. Halidan, K. Tanaka, B. Long, H. Nishida, C. Long, M. Wu, & K. Kato. .
2011. Molecular Analysis of the Genetic Diversity of Chinese Hami Melon and Its Relationship to the Melon Germplasm from Central and South Asia. J. Jap. Soc. Hort. Sci. 80(1):52-65.
DOI:
10.2503/jjshs1.80.52
.
Number of accessions cited:
47
McCreight, J. D.
1994.
Screening of Melons for Sweetpotato Whitefly Resistance: 1993.
Cucurbit Genet. Coop. Rep. 17:83-85.
Note:
Table 1.
Number of accessions cited:
265
Pedigree
Material Transfer Agreement
Observations
Phenotype Data
Category
Descriptor
Description
Value
Sample Size
Study
Inventory
Availability
DISEASE
DOWNY MILDEW
RESISTANCE TO DOWNY MILDEW CAUSED BY PSEUDOPERONOSPORA CUBENSIS
9 - HIGH SUSCEPTIBILITY
MELO.DOWNY.MILDEW.94
PI 207478 91ncai01 SD
DISEASE
GUMMY STEM BLIGHT
RESISTANCE TO GUMMY STEM BLIGHT
8 - (1 = NO DAMAGE, 9 = STEM WITHERED OR DEAD)
16
MELO.GSB.NY.DIS.94.GH
PI 207478 91ncai01 SD
DISEASE
STEM BLIGHT
RESISTANCE TO GUMMY STEM BLIGHT (MYCOSPHAERELLA CITRULLINA)
9 - SUSCEPTIBLE
S9.CANTALOUPE
Not Available
PRODUCTION
100 SEED WEIGHT
100 SEED WEIGHT
4.21
NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLE
PI 207478 87ncsi01 SD
Not Available
PRODUCTION
100 SEED WEIGHT
100 SEED WEIGHT
4.34
NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLE
PI 207478 87ncsb01 SD
Not Available
PRODUCTION
100 SEED WEIGHT
100 SEED WEIGHT
4.44
NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLE
PI 207478 91ncai01 SD
PRODUCTION
100 SEED WEIGHT
100 SEED WEIGHT
4.92
NC7.100SEEDWGT.TRANSFER.FROM.NC7IV.TABLE
PI 207478 87ncso01 SD
Not Available