dual purpose melons and squash?

[diane]

[quote author="keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.)" I want a white warty crookedneck..[/quote]


I grow yellow crooknecks every year but have never eaten them. I pick them and stand them up so they look like ducklings,
or give them to children.


So instead of enchanting neighbourhood children with little yellow ducklings, you'll scare them with big white geese.

[steev]

When I was a child, in the Permian, Easter always brought many chicks and ducklings dyed unnatural colors; they generally didn't live long; I think veggie "geese" are a great improvement, karma-wise.

[Day]

Jan 11, 2018 17:15:49 GMT -5 keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) said:

I was planning this year to cross warty yellow crookedneck with a white acorn squash. I want a white warty crookedneck. I wasn't intending for a dual use squash, but who knows what would result.

Since I was browsing the Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative squash gene list for another purpose, but I figured I'd post any related genes to your project as I found them, in case they could be useful to you or future readers:

I couldn't find anything on crookneck shape; all I found regarding shape was:

Di -- Disc fruit shape. From scallop squash, dominant to spherical or pyriform.

And those I didn't quote them all, here are a few basic ones for wartiness and color that may pertain to your project:

Hr -- Hard rind. For hard (lignified) rind in ornamental gourd, straightneck squash, and zucchini;
hr -- for soft (non-lignified) rind in ‘Small Sugar’ pumpkin and ‘Sweet Potato’ (‘Delicata’). Complementary to
Wt -- for Warty fruit. Dominant to non-warted, wt, and complementary to Hr, with fruit wartiness being expressed only in the presence of the dominant Hr allele. Wt in straightneck, crookneck, and ‘Delicata’; wt in zucchini, cocozelle, and ‘Small Sugar’ pumpkin. Weakly linked to M.

M -- Mottled leaves. M for silver-gray areas in axils of leaf veins, dominant to m for absence of silver-gray. M in ‘Caserta’ and inbred of ‘Striato d’Italia’ cocozelle; m in ‘Early
Prolific Straightneck’ and ‘Early YellowCrookneck’. Weakly linked to Wt.

W --Weak fruit coloration. Dominant to w for intense-pigmented mature fruit, recessive to
W(s) -- for weak coloration of fruit and stem; W and W(s) from scallop squash. Complementary to Wf for white external fruit color; W(s) is epistatic to D.

Wf -- White flesh. Dominant to wf for colored flesh. Wf in a scallop squash, wf in a straightneck squash. Complementary to W for white external fruit color.