Phenotypic and Genetic Characterization of Cucumis Melo L. Landraces Collected in Apulia (Italy) and Albania

Univariate and multivariate analysis performed on bio-agronomical traits of Cucumis melo L. germplasm

“…As shown by , and Ricciardi et al ( , 2002Ricciardi et al ( , 2003, the Inodorus group is largely cultivated. The fruit is harvested during the summer, stored and usually consumed right up to the Christmas holidays.…”

“…However, as reported by several Authors that performed missions of collecting in the south of Italy and Albania Gladis et al 1995;Ricciardi and Filippetti 2000;Ricciardi et al , 2003, in these Mediterranean regions it is still possible to collect important genetic resources for many horticultural species. In particular for melon it is possible to collect typical melons belonging to the Inodorus group, and often indicated by similar names, with large genetic variation in important agronomical and commercial traits (Ricciardi et al 2002(Ricciardi et al , 2003.…”

“…In particular for melon it is possible to collect typical melons belonging to the Inodorus group, and often indicated by similar names, with large genetic variation in important agronomical and commercial traits (Ricciardi et al 2002(Ricciardi et al , 2003.…”

Cucurbits (Cucurbitaceae; Cucumis spp., Cucurbita spp., Citrullus spp.)

“…There are many other polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based marker classes that have been used in recent years to characterize cucurbit germplasm, including amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) Che et al 2003;Ricciardi et al 2003), cleaved amplified polymorphic sequences (CAPSs) (Akashi et al 2001;Akashi et al 2002a;Kato et al 2002), inter simple sequence repeats (ISSRs) (Perl-Treves et al 1998;Stepansky, Kovalski, and Perl-Treves 1999a;Katzir et al 2000;, restriction satellites (Helm and Hemleben 1997), and sequence-based amplified polymorphisms (SBAPs) (Ferrio!, Pico, and Nuez 2003b) [also known as sequence-related amplified polymorphisms (SRAPs)] (Ferrio!, Pico, and Nuez 2003a;Ferrio! et al 2004a).…”

“…Cucurbita germplasm has received similar attention by Chinese researchers (Chen 1993;Zhou et al 1995;Ren 1998). Other reports on horticultural evaluations directed toward the identification of superior genotypes among local landraces include studies of Cucurbita landraces from Cuba (Rios Labrada, Fernandez Almirall, and Casanova Galarraga 1998) and Jordan (Kasrawi 1995) and of C. melo landraces from India (Seshadri and More 2002), Italy, and Albania (Ricciardi et al 2003).…”