Proceedings of the Plant Resources Society of Korea Conference (한국자원식물학회:학술대회논문집)
- 2018.10a
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- Pages.75-75
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- 2018
Investigation on sink/source related traits and their relation of watermelon germplasm to promote use
- Hwang, Hyun-Chul (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences) ;
- Yi, Jung-Yoon (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences) ;
- Rhee, Ju-Hee (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences) ;
- Hur, On-Sook (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences) ;
- Ro, Na-Young (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences) ;
- Sung, Jung-Sook (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences) ;
- Lee, Ho-Sun (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences) ;
- Lee, Jae-Eun (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences) ;
- Lee, Sok-Young (National Agrobiodiversity Center, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences)
- Published : 2018.10.08
Abstract
Watermelons, Citrullus species(Cucurbitaceae), are native to Africa and have been cultivated since ancient times. T he fruit flesh of wild watermelon is watery, but typically hard-textured, pale-colored and bland or bitter. The familiar sweet dessert watermelons, C. lanatus, featuring non-bitter, tender, well colored flesh, have a narrow genetic base, suggesting that they are originated from a series of selection events in a single ancestral population. In this study, considered as sweet dissert watermelon, genetic resources, C. lanatus, comprising of traditional cultivars and local accessions were collected from 18 different countries in four continents. A total of 60 accessions were characterized morphologically according to RDA genebank descriptors combined with Japan and China, list for 11 qualitative characteristics, leaf length, leaf width, petiole length, petiole diameter-source, stalk end length, stalk diameter, fruit length, fruit diameter, rind thickness, flesh sugar content(