Screening of Turkish Melon Accessions for Resistance to ZYMV, WMV and CMV

• Main Authors: Ercan EKBIC, Hakan FIDAN, Mehtap YILDIZ, Kazim ABAK
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Cluj-Napoca 2010-03-01
• Series: Notulae Scientia Biologicae
• Online Access: http://notulaebiologicae.ro/index.php/nsb/article/view/3555
• ISSN: 2067-3205; 2067-3264

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #221e1f; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Garamond Premier Pro&quot;;">In the Çukurova University Department of Horticulture more than 350 melon accessions were collected from different ecological parts of Turkey which is located on the secondary genetic diversification center of this crop, and their characterization studies are near completion. Furthermore, evaluation studies of these materials have started. In the present study 67 melon accessions, sampled from this germplasm, were tested for resistance to </span><span style="color: #221e1f;"><span class="A4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Garamond Premier Pro&quot;;">zucchini yellow mosaic virus (</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #221e1f; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Garamond Premier Pro&quot;;">ZYMV), </span><span class="A4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Garamond Premier Pro&quot;; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Cucumber </span></span><span class="A4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Garamond Premier Pro&quot;;">mosaic virus (</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #221e1f; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Garamond Premier Pro&quot;;">CMV) and </span><span class="A4"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Garamond Premier Pro&quot;;">watermelon mosaic virus (</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #221e1f; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Garamond Premier Pro&quot;;">WMV). After resistance tests made by mechanical inoculation, four accessions (‘CU 100’, ‘CU 287’, ‘CU 305’ and ‘CU 328’) were found resistant to ZYMV and three accessions (‘CU 305’, ‘C 264’, and ‘C 276’) to WMV. No resistant genotype was found to CMV.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>