Details for: PI 271778, Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai, No. 13

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

Top Name:

No. 13

Origin:

Donated – Transvaal, South Africa

Maintained:

Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit (S9)

Received by NPGS:

17 Feb 1961

PI Assigned:

1961

Form Received:

Seed

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Inventory Volume:

169
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	10 count		PI 271778 02 SD

Images (4 total. Click on image for more.)

Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

Top Name:

No. 13

Origin:

Donated – Transvaal, South Africa

Maintained:

Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit (S9)

Received by NPGS:

17 Feb 1961

PI Assigned:

1961

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Donated

17 February 1961.
Transvaal, South Africa

Donor(s):

Division of Horticulture

Accession Names and Identifiers

No. 13

Type: Other or unclassified name

Narrative

Hybrid melon from Nelspruit

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai

Genus:

Citrullus

Family:

Cucurbitaceae

Tribe:

Benincaseae

Nomen number:

10675

Place of publication:

Cat. sem. spor. hort. bot. Univ. Imp. Tokyo 30, no. 854. 1916 (l.c. 38. 1920), nom. cons.

Comment:

the basionym Momordica lanata Thunb. is conserved (nom. cons.) with a conserved type (Shenzhen ICN Art. 14.9 & App. IV) against the heterotypic synonym (Shenzhen ICN Art. 14.4) Citrullus battich Forssk., nom. rej.

Verified:

03/13/2019 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai var. cordophanus Fursa (0 active accession[s])
Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai var. lanatus (0 active accession[s])

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Momordica lanata Thunb.

Autonym(s)
Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai subsp. lanatus

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Citrullus aedulis Pangalo
Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai subsp. vulgaris (Schrad.) Fursa
Citrullus vulgaris Schrad.
Citrullus vulgaris Schrad. var. vulgaris
Colocynthis citrullus (L.) Kuntze
Cucurbita citrullus L.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	Afghan-melon	1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English	bastard-melon	1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English	dessert watermelon	1	PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
English	watermelon	1	Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
French	melon d'eau	2	Burkill, H. M. 1985-2004. The useful plants of west tropical Africa. Note: uses for cultivated watermelon as Citrullus lanatus subsp. lanatus
French	pastèque	2	Nuez, F. et al. 1993. Recolección de especies hortícolas en Ecuador. Pl. Genet. Resources Newslett. 96:32. Note: adopts for cultivated watermelon as Citrullus lanatus subsp. lanatus
German	Wassermelone	2	Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1306.
Italian	anguria	2	International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Japanese Rōmaji	suika	2	Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993-. Flora of Japan.
Portuguese	melancia	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: uses for cultivated watermelon as Citrullus lanatus subsp. lanatus
Spanish	albudeca	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: uses for cultivated watermelon as Citrullus lanatus subsp. lanatus
Spanish	sandía	2	McVaugh, R. 1983-. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
Swedish	vattenmelon	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese	xi gua	2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Transcribed Korean	subag	2	Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:90.

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study	Inventory	Availability
CHEMICAL	Seed (entire) oil percentage	Mean percent seed (entire) oil content	20.34	WATERMELON.SEED.OIL.CONTENT.2012		Not Available
DISEASE	Anthracnose race 2	Reaction to Colletotrichium lagenarium race 2 (Winstead et al Plant Disease Reporter 43:570-577. 1959)	1 - Resistant	S9.WATERMELON	PI 271778 01 SD	Not Available
DISEASE	Seed blight	Resistance to Seedling Blight (Pseudomonas pseudoalkaligenes ssp. citrulli).	9 - Susceptible	S9.WATERMELON	PI 271778 01 SD	Not Available
DISEASE	Gummy stem blight (Sowell)	Resistance to Gummy Stem Blight (Mycosphaerella citrullina). Reported by Sowell & Pointer, Plant Disease Reporter 46:883-885. 1962. 59:413-415. 1975.	1 - Resistant	S9.WATERMELON	PI 271778 01 SD	Not Available
DISEASE	Verticillium wilt	Resistance to Wilt (Verticillium dahliae) reported by Skotland.	9 - Susceptible	S9.WATERMELON	PI 271778 01 SD	Not Available
DISEASE	Watermelon mosaic virus II	Resistance to watermelon mosaic virus II.	9 - Susceptible	S9.WATERMELON	PI 271778 01 SD	Not Available
DISEASE	Bacterial fruit blotch	Resistance to watermelon fruit blotch (Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli).	3 - Restricted lesions on cotyledon, < 20% necrotic	WATERMELON.BFB.2020		Not Available
DISEASE	Bacterial fruit blotch	Resistance to watermelon fruit blotch (Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli).	9 - Susceptible (large lesions on cotyledon and first true leaf, or dead plant)	WATERMELON.BFB.1997		Not Available
DISEASE	Gummy stem blight (Wehner)	Resistance to gummy stem blight (Didymella bryoniae (Auersw.) Rehm). Data summarized as the mean (mean of 1,325 cultigens = 4.50) and standard deviation over replications. Reported by Gusmini, Song, and Wehner, Crop Sci. 45:582-588.	4.2	Excel Spreadsheet or as an HTML webpage. View summary statistics in an Excel Spreadsheet or as an HTML webpage.">WATERMELON.GSB.WEHNER.2005		Not Available
DISEASE	POWDERY MILDEW RACE 2	Resistance to powdery mildew (Sphaerotheca fuliginea (Schlechtend.:Fr.) Race 2 Pollacci isolate)	3 - Susceptible (disease index 6.1 to 9.0)	WATERMELON.POWDERYMILDEW.THOMAS.2005		Not Available
DISEASE	Anthracnose race 1 Growth Chamber	Resistance to race 1 of Colletotrichum lagenarium evaluated in Growth Chamber	6 - (1 = Resistant, 9 = Susceptible)	WATERMELON.ANTHRACNOSE.RACE1.GC.2019		Not Available
DISEASE	Anthracnose race 1 Green House	Resistance to race 1 of Colletotrichum lagenarium evaluated in Green House	3 - (1 = Resistant, 9 = Susceptible)	WATERMELON.ANTHRACNOSE.RACE1.GH.2019		Not Available
DISEASE	Anthracnose race 1 Field	Resistance to race 1 of Colletotrichum lagenarium evaluated in Field Environment	3 - (1 = Resistant, 9 = Susceptible)	WATERMELON.ANTHRACNOSE.RACE1.FIELD.2019		Not Available
DISEASE	Anthracnose race 2 Green House	Resistance to race 2 of Colletotrichum lagenarium evaluated in Green House	3 - (1 = Resistant, 9 = Susceptible)	WATERMELON.ANTHRACNOSE.RACE2.GH.2019		Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	Background color	Fruit rind background color	2 - Medium Green	S9.WATERMELON	PI 271778 01 SD	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	Fruit color pattern	Color pattern of fruit rind	2 - Striped	S9.WATERMELON	PI 271778 01 SD	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	Flesh color	Color of ripe fruit flesh	3 - Yellow	S9.WATERMELON	PI 271778 01 SD	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	Fruit diameter	Maximum fruit diameter in centimeters	22	S9.WATERMELON	PI 271778 01 SD	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	Fruit length	Fruit length in centimeters	27	S9.WATERMELON	PI 271778 01 SD	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	Fruit shape	General fruit shape	3 - Oblong	S9.WATERMELON	PI 271778 01 SD	Not Available
MORPHOLOGY	Rind stripe color	Color of rind stripes	3 - Dark Green	S9.WATERMELON	PI 271778 01 SD	Not Available
PHENOLOGY	Maturity	Relative time of maturation	5 - Midseason	S9.WATERMELON	PI 271778 01 SD	Not Available
SUBSET	Core subset	A flag to indicate the accession is part of the core subset	Y - Yes, accession is part of the core subset	WATERMELON.CORE		Not Available
SUBSET	Image	Image present in GRIN database	Fruit-Plant - Image of fruit and/or plant	WATERMELON.IMAGE.2004		Not Available
SUBSET	Image	Image present in GRIN database	Fruitxsect - Image of fruit cross section	WATERMELON.IMAGE.2004		Not Available
SUBSET	Image	Image present in GRIN database	Seed - Image of seed	WATERMELON.IMAGE.SEED	PI 271778 01 SD	Not Available
SUBSET	Image	Image present in GRIN database	Seed - Image of seed	WATERMELON.IMAGE.SEED	PI 271778 02 SD