Interspecific Hybridization in Cucumis—Progress, Problems, and Perspectives

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HORTSCIENCE, VOL. 35(1), FEBRUARY 2000 Received for publication 18 Mar. 1999. Accepted for publication 12 July 1999. Journal paper no. 4482 of South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Clemson, S.C. The authors sincerely thank Dr. Yosuke Tashiro, Dr. Shiro Isshiki, and Dr. Sadami Miyazaki, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga Univ. of Japan, Saga, for the isozyme data presented in this paper, and Dr. Bill Rhodes and Dr. Vance Baird, Dept. of Horticulture of Clemson Univ., and Dr. Jack Staub, USDA/ARS, the Univ. of Wisconsin– Madison, for their review of this paper. This research was supported by the National Education Committee of the Peoples Republic of China, and by Research Grant Award No. US-2809-96R from the United States–Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD). The cost of publishing this paper was defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. Under postal regulations, this paper therefore must be hereby marked advertisement solely to indicate this fact. To whom reprint requests should be addressed. Current address: Nanjing Agricultural Univ., Nanjing 210095, P.R. China; e-mail: JFCHEN@nau.njau.edu.cn. Interspecific Hybridization in Cucumis—Progress, Problems, and Perspectives