January 2012

Identification of best heterotic crosses for yield and water use efficiency traits in groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)

  A set of 28 crosses involving 8 parents were studied to get the information on the extent of heterosis over mid parent, better parent and standard parent for yield and physiological attributes. The maximum better parent heterosis for pod yield was observed to be 92.73% and that of mid parent and standard parent was found to be 101.52 and 108.54% respectively. TIR-25 x TCGS-647, TPT-4 x TIR-25, K-1375 x...

Author(s):   K. John, P. Raghava Reddy, K. Hariprasad Reddy, P. Sudhakar and N. P. Eswar Reddy  

January 2012

Cross-species amplification of 349 melon (Cucumis melo L.) microsatellites in gherkin (Cucumis anguria L.)

  Gherkin (Cucumis anguria L.), also known as West Indian gherkin, burr gherkin, and maxixe, is mainly cultivated and consumed in India, Brazil, and the United States. Marker-assisted selection (MAS) is a highly desirable tool for gherkin breeding, because gherkin cultivation generally requires time, labor, and space. However, few DNA markers for gherkin have been reported. Cross-species amplification of...

Author(s): Yuichi Matsumoto, Nobuyoshi Watanabe and Tsutomu Kuboyama