Field Performance Comparison of Two Transgenic Summer Squash Hybrids to Their Parental Hybrid Line

A comarison between in vitro culture of two tomato parental lines and their reciprocal hybrids

Characterization of Resistance to Squash Silverleaf Disorder in Summer Squash

Feeding nymphs of the silverleaf whitefly, Bemisia argentifolii (formerly known as Bemisia tabaci Gennadius, B strain), cause a physiological disorder known as squash silverleaf (SSL) in summer squash (Cucurbita pepo L.). This disorder is characterized by a progressive silvering on the upper leaf surface caused by the development of large air spaces between the palisade mesophyll cells and the ...

Comparative fitness of a wild squash species and three generations of hybrids between wild × virus-resistant transgenic squash

We compared some fitness components of the wild squash species Cucurbita pepo spp. ovifera var. texana (C. texana) and three generations of hybrids (F1, BC1, and BC2) between C. texana and commercial transgenic squash CZW-3 over three consecutive years under field conditions of low (LDP) and high disease pressure (HDP) by Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), Zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV) and Wate...

Comparative fitness of a wild squash species and three generations of hybrids between wild x virus-resistant transgenic squash.

We compared some fitness components of the wild squash species Cucurbita pepo spp. ovifera var. texana (C. texana) and three generations of hybrids (F1, BC1, and BC2) between C. texana and commercial transgenic squash CZW-3 over three consecutive years under field conditions of low (LDP) and high disease pressure (HDP) by Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), Zucchini yellow mosaic virus (ZYMV) and Wate...

Antitumor immunity induced by hybrid tumor cells: comparison between hybrids and the parental tumor.

The ability of hybrid tumor cells to induce antitumor immunity has been evaluated in the line 1 alveolar cell carcinoma (L1) model of BALB/c mice. Hybrid tumor cells were produced by fusing freshly dissociated L1 cells isolated from in vivo tumors with the hypoxanthine:aminopterin:thymidine-sensitive cell line, GM 347, derived from C3H mice. Each hybrid was characterized by DNA content and expr...