Melon is an important horticultural crop worldwide. The high diversity of melon makes it a
model plant for various different properties. Some quantitative trait loci or candidates have …

The core collection is a small subset that minimizes genetic redundancy while preserving
the maximum genetic diversity of the entire population. Research on the core collection is …

Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is an important horticultural cash crop and its quality traits directly
affect consumer choice and market price. These traits are controlled by genetic as well as …

Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of flowering plants, is a very large and diverse family, the
order Cucurbitales, contains 95 genera and 950–980 species of food and ornamental …

Melons exhibit huge diversity of morphology and fruit quality traits, and these traits are still
being investigated in worldwide breeding studies. Due to the fabulous advantages, single …

Background Fruit morphology traits are important commercial traits that directly affect the
market value. However, studying the genetic basis of these traits in un-explored botanical …

Powdery mildew (PM) is a catastrophic disease of melon caused by Podosphaera xanthii
(Px). However, there is limited information available at the molecular level regarding how the …

Abstract Melon (Cucumis melo L.), belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family, is an
economically important vegetable crop cultivated worldwide and highly valued for its fruit …

Cucurbits powdery mildew (CPM) is one of the main limiting factors of melon cultivation
worldwide. Resistance to races 1, 2, and 5 has been reported in the African accession TGR …

Genome editing technologies are promising for conventional mutagenesis breeding, which
takes a long time to remove unnecessary mutations through backcrossing and create new …