Project Number: 3655-21000-037-04
Project Type: Reimbursable

Start Date: Oct 01, 2000
End Date: Sep 30, 2004

Objective:
Determine, using molecular techniques, whether known ethylene biosynthetic or signal-transduction genes co-segregate with known sex determing loci, to identify the spatial and temporal expression patterns of such genes to determine whether perception and gene action are the same and determine whether transgenically altered expression or perception of endogenous ethylene can modify sex expression.

Approach:
Work involves the cloning of cucumber genes that encode components of ethylene biosynthesis, perception and response and marker-assisted mapping of ethylene-related genes in segregating cucumber and melon populations to characterize their map location and association with sex loci and production of transgenic melon plants with altered ethylene production or perception.

Project Team

Staub, Jack

Project Annual Reports

FY 2003   FY 2002   FY 2001

Related National Programs

Plant, Microbial & Insect Genetic Res., Genomics, & Genetic Improv. I (301)