Welcome to the CucCAP Chronicle

The CucCAP project is developing genomic resources to increase disease resistance in cucurbit crops for the cucurbit community. The CucCAP website provides news about CucCAP grant activity, cucurbit diseases, and cucurbit crop production to a broad audience including crop producers, plant pathologists, plant breeders, plant genome scientists, and vegetable extension specialists.

CucCAP Featured News

Umesh Reddy and team at WVSU and Amnon Levi and team at USDA, ARS used advance genome sequencing technology to study the effect of genome doubling on gene expression in tetraploid watermelon versus their counterpart diploid watermelon parental plants.
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Early Career Scientist Spotlight | Andrea P. Landrón García

CucCAP scientist Andrea P. Landrón García’s research is focused on the creation of future resistant lines of squash with resistance to powdery mildew using resistant materials with local materials in Puerto Rico.
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Cucurbit Disease Management and Crop Production News

Cucurbit downy mildew epidemic updates | ipmPIPE

The Cucurbit downy mildew forecast is hosted by the NC State University departments of Plant Pathology & Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences. The website provides a map of recent outbreaks and lists outbreaks.
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New photo gallery: Cercospora leaf spot of Cucumber

The Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension center’s Vegetable Pathology group added a new photo gallery of Cercospora leaf spot of Cucumber.
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Michigan vegetable crop report – Aug. 4, 2021

“Downy mildew continues to infect cucumber plantings. Powdery mildew and gummy stem blight are starting to show up in hard squashes.”
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Squash Downy Mildew Found in North Carolina

Currently, both clade 1 and clade 2 have arrived in North Carolina through air currents.
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Mary Hausbeck discusses oomycetes | GLVPN

CucCAP plant pathologist Mary Hausbeck joined the July 28, 2021 podcast to talk about a group of pathogens called oomycetes.

Events

FFVA Annual Convention

September 13 - September 15: Naples, Florida
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53rd Annual Florida Watermelon Association Convention

October 20 - October 22: Orlando, Florida

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2021 Australasian Plant Pathology Society Biennial Conference

November 23 - November 26: online from Australia

CucCAP vegetable pathologist, Dr. Lina Quesada-Ocampo will be a keynote speaker at this conference. Her research has improved cucurbit downy mildew management.
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All Events

The CucCAP Chronicle is the newsletter of the Cucurbit Coordinated Agricultural Project website. Submit comments to cuccap-website@ncsu.edu.

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