Grafted Melons: The Phytopathological Aspect

Spontaneous Tetraploid Melons

Since 1968, three spontaneous 4x melons (Cucumis melo L.) plants were discovered in our field or greenhouse plantings. Two were found in the cultivar Planters Jumbo and one in the virescent marker C879-52. Each of these 4x plants had rounded cotyledons, shorter internodes, thicker stems and leaves, more hairs, and smaller fruits, with larger stem and blossom scars, than their 2x counterparts. A...

Eighty-eighth Annual Report of The American Phytopathological Society.

The Financial Advisory Committee and APS headquarters’ staff members met on 29 March and 3 and 4 June in St. Paul, MN, and on 26 July 1996 in Indianapolis, IN, to review past and current financial matters related to the operation of the Society and to prepare the budget for FY97. The approved minutes of these meetings were distributed to your regional councilor and are on file at headquarters i...

The Market for “Melons”: Quantity Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism

Markets as diverse as labor, healthcare, restaurants, transportation, mobile telephony, and broadband Internet services often have providers that offer flatrate pricing; usage-based pricing; or both. Using agent-based simulation and analysis of an idealized model of a duopoly with one flat-rate and one usagebased provider, we demonstrate that flat-rate plans are unsustainable in a perfectly com...

Heavy paths, light stars, and big melons

Ninety-eighth annual report of the american phytopathological society.