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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 Article

Downy mildew caused by Pseudoperonospora cubensis is the most destructive foliar disease affecting cucurbit crops.  Genomic studies by Dr. Lina Quesada-Ocampo and colleagues at North Carolina State University showed that different isolates preferentially infect different cucurbit crops.  From this information, a multiplex PCR-based assay was combined with spore trapping to identify which crops are most at risk.  These results can facilitate timely and crop-specific fungicide application prior to appearance of symptoms in sentinel plots.
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Meet the CucCAP Team

Feifan Chen has been working on cucumber genetics for nearly 9 years mainly on horticulturally important traits such as plant height, fruit shape and size. He is working as a post doctoral candidate in the Department of Horticulture at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and is currently focusing on pathogen resistance to downy mildew and Powdery mildew.
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Cucurbit Disease Management and Crop Production News


Cucurbit downy mildew epidemic updates | ipmPIPE

Outbreaks of Cucurbit Downy Mildew were reported on butternut squash, pumpkin, summer squash and watermelon between September 15 and October 8, 2021.
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Fall 2021 Cucurbit crop and disease news

Crop news from the Southeastern U.S. includes information from university specialists about whitefly infestations, downy mildew surveillance and emerging plant viruses.
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UNH seeks Assistant Professor of Horticultural Plant Breeding 

The University of New Hampshire seeks a tenure-track faculty member with demonstrated expertise in the area of plant genetic improvement. The appointee is expected to develop a research program focused on the applied genetic improvement of horticultural crops. Using genome-enabled trait development and breeding strategies, the candidate is expected to work on horticultural crop improvement. The squash breeding work by Dr. Brent Loy, emeritus professor of plant genetics at UNH has resulted in the release of varieties of interest to the CucCAP squash breeding group.
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Events


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.
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NC Vegetable Grower’s Association Ag Expo

November 29 - December 1
Raleigh, NC

Vegetable pathologist Lina Quesada-Ocampo and vegetable extension specialist Jonathan Schultheis will make presentations at this meeting including "Disease Management and Downy Mildew", "Cultivars to Consider Growing in North Carolina", "Pumpkin Spacing Considerations: Effects on Yield, Size and Fruit Uniformity", and "Watermelon Cultivar Evaluations in Fields with Minimal or High Levels of Fusarium Wilt; Potential Fusarium Wilt Management Strategies". 
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North Carolina 73rd Annual Crop Protection School

December 1
online from Raleigh, NC
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2021 Great Lakes Expo

December 7 - December 9
Grand Rapids, MI

CucCAP vegetable pathologist Mary Hausbeck will make three presentations at this meeting: "Downy Mildew Management in Pickling Cucumbers", "Managing Phytophthora Capsici in Processing Squash", and "The Grounder, the Line Drive, and the Pop Fly: Fielding Three Very Different Vine Crop Diseases". 
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PAG XXIX

January 8, 2022 - January 12, 2022
San Diego, CA
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