Pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) breeding priorities based on a survey among Puerto Rican consumers

Carbonell, Manuel; Wessel-Beaver, Linda; Varela, Felicita; Luciano, Brunilda

doi:10.46429/jaupr.v74i3.6655

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“…Flesh color is an important attribute for the Puerto Rican consumer (Carbonell et al, 1990). 'Verde Luz' has an attractive flesh color, somewhat more orange than 'Soler' as indicated by its lower average hue angle (Table 2).…”

Section: Fruit Qualitymentioning

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Release of Tropical Pumpkin ‘Verde Luz’

Wessel-Beaver

2024

JAUPR

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Section: Fruit Qualitymentioning

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Release of Tropical Pumpkin ‘Verde Luz’

Wessel-Beaver

2024

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“…Other components of consumer preference in pumpkins and winter squash include external and internal fruit colors (Schales and Isenberg, 1963;Murphy et al, 1966;Carbonell et al, 1990). There are many market types of pumpkins and winter squash having differing desired external color and color patterns (Ferriol and Pico, 2008).…”

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“…For pumpkins and winter squash almost everywhere, intense color of the fruit flesh is highly desired by consumers (Carbonell et al, 1990;Nerson, 1995;Ferriol and Pico, 2008;Obrero et al, 2013). The fruits harvested from the trellised plants had a significantly more intense orange-yellow fruit-flesh color, measured in a* and b* values, than those harvested from the ground-grown plants (Table 3).…”

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Trellising is advantageous over ground culture for out-of-season, protected production and storage of sweet acorn squash

Adeeko,

Yudelevich,

Raphael

et al. 2024

Front. Hortic.

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Acorn squash (Cucurbita pepo) have been a familiar item at produce stands for decades in the United States and Canada, but little known or appreciated elsewhere. Following the breeding and development of sweet-fleshed acorn squash in Israel and its commercial introduction in 2007, acorn squash became a high-priced, popular produce item there. Scarcity of supply in winter has led to attempts to fill the consumer demand by using available protected cultivation infrastructure in the relatively mild area of southwestern Israel for production. Such production has proven feasible but it was not determined whether it would be preferable to allow the plants to simply grow sprawling on the ground or vertically, using trellises to train the plants to grow erect. Two sweet acorn squash hybrid cultivars differing in fruit size were compared, growing on the ground or on trellises, for yield, quality, and storability of the fruits. The hybrids bore fully ripe fruits from December through February, producing 56% higher yields when trellised rather than when allowed to grow on the ground. The fruits of trellised plants of both hybrids were more uniformly black-green and firmer than those of ground-grown plants. Their dry matter content at harvest and after 78 days of storage was very high, averaging 28% and 25%, respectively. Total soluble solids content of the fruit flesh from trellised plants was 19% at harvest and an extraordinary 20% after storage at 10°C, 70% RH. The fruit flesh of trellised plants was also more highly colored and had higher carotenoid, ascorbate, and anti-oxidant contents. Overall, trellising of sweet acorn squash during the winter under protected cultivation resulted in significantly higher yields and the finest fruit quality.

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Consumer-oriented exploitation and conservation of genetic resources of pumpkins and squash, Cucurbita

Paris

2018

Israel J. Plant Sci.

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Pumpkins and squash, Cucurbita species, are valued horticultural products almost everywhere. They have been cultivated and subjected to consumer-oriented selection for thousands of years. Under this consumer orientation, they have been improved culinarily and diversified into the wonderful array of fruit sizes, shapes, and colors that are seen today. Besides their value as food items, pumpkins and squash are associated by people with abundance, warmth, sexuality, and life itself. My current objective is to provide a succinct perspective on the process of consumer-oriented exploitation of pumpkin and squash genetic resources. I briefly review the etymology, taxonomy and gross morphology of Cucurbita plants. A view is presented of how gathering, nurturing, domestication and cultivation of Cucurbita, species-specific and consumer-driven, maintained some of the parallels among species but also magnified the phenotypic differences among them. At greater length are considered the differences in resource allocation required for the preferential consumer-driven production of mature versus young fruits. Environmental effects, abiotic and biotic, are briefly mentioned, as are some of the potential benefits of biotechnology, genetic engineering, mapping, genomics, and gene editing as cognates for breeding. Finally, I consider the processes and needs for collection, maintenance, characterization, and availability of Cucurbita genetic resources and the dangers imposed by under-informed administrators in academia and cavalier governmental regulatory statutes toward future consumer-oriented improvement of pumpkins and squash.

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Pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) breeding priorities based on a survey among Puerto Rican consumers

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Release of Tropical Pumpkin ‘Verde Luz’

Release of Tropical Pumpkin ‘Verde Luz’

Trellising is advantageous over ground culture for out-of-season, protected production and storage of sweet acorn squash

Consumer-oriented exploitation and conservation of genetic resources of pumpkins and squash, Cucurbita

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