Cucurbitaceae 2018 - Seed World: Recent Episodes
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Rakesh Kumar, melon R&D team lead at Syngenta, talks about why he’s got such a passion for fruit and how it fits into Syngenta’s portfolio. Interview conducted at Cucurbitaceae 2018 in Davis, Calif.
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Allen Van Deynze is a researcher in the Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California — Davis. Originally from Canada, he talks to us about how and why there’s a greater variety of cucurbits than ever on grocery store shelves, why there aren’t more Canadians like him […]
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Jim McCreight, USDA research leader in crop improvement and protection research in Salinas, Calif., and Boyce Thompson Institute associate professor Zhangjun Fei, talk about the important work being done by the Cucurbit Coordinated Agricultural Project (CucCAP) and the quest to create better melons. Interviews conducted at Cucurbitaceae 2018 in Davis, Calif.
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Paradee Thammapichai is a graduate student in the plant genetics program at the University of Wisconsin — Madison working on genomics-aided development and characterization of Cucumis hystrix introgression lines in cucumber. She sits down with Marc Zienkiewicz to talk cucumbers, the importance of international collaborations and why you don’t see anything other than green cucumbers on […]
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We’ve all been there. You buy a supermarket cantaloupe, cut it up, take a bite, and start chewing. You’d hoped for a juicy, succulent, flavorful fruit, but instead the experience is akin to trying to eat a piece of wood. One that kind of, sort of tastes like cantaloupe. Lack of flavor in supermarket varieties of […]
The post What’s so Complicated about Cantaloupe? Plenty appeared first on Seed World.
Bill Copes, melon breeder for HM.Clause Vegetable Seeds, sits down with Marc Zienkiewicz at Cucurbitaceae 2018 in Davis, Calif. last week to talk about what the company is doing to launch flavorful new melon products.
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Today in Davis, Calif., two pioneers of the cucurbits community were awarded for lifetime achievement at the Cucurbitaceae 2018 conference. Syngenta’s Xingping Zhang was awarded for work in the private sector. Zhang is known for his expert knowledge and skills in plant genetics, breeding, crop management, IP protection, and teaching. He has made remarkable contributions to watermelon […]
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On location in Davis, California at Cucurbitaceae 2018, we sit down with Jason Argyris, researcher at the CRAG Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics in Spain, to chat about improving cucurbits and why he owes his career to a childhood neighbor who had a huge garden.
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On location in Davis, California at Cucurbitaceae 2018, we sit down with Michigan State University pickling cucumber breeder Ben Mansfeld to chat about his work in making cucumbers more disease resistant, the Cucurbit Coordinated Agricultural Project (see cuccap.org for more info), and why his favorite cucumber of all time is hard to come by here in the […]
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On location in Davis, California at Cucurbitaceae 2018, we sit down with Cornell University vegetable breeder Michael Mazourek to chat about his work on the Cucurbit Coordinated Agricultural Project (see cuccap.org for more info), bringing the flavor back to vegetables and his new seed company partnership with celebrity chef Dan Barber.
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