Table 6.
Varietal and geographical variation of 100 seeds weight among 7,396 accessions of melon
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| 0– | 0.5– | 1.0– | 1.5– | 2.0– | 2.5– | 3.0– | 3.5– | 4.0– | 4.5– | 5.0– | 5.5– | 6.0– | 6.5– | 7.0– | 7.5– | 8.0– | 8.5– | 9.0– | 9.5– | |||
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| North America | 224 | – | 40 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 35 | 59 | 43 | 10 | 5 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | |
| Central America | 40 | – | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | |
| South America | 39 | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 6 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
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| Europe | 1,520 | 1 | – | 1 | 7 | 19 | 51 | 125 | 213 | 294 | 271 | 235 | 144 | 88 | 37 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | |
| Russia/Former Soviet Union | 78 | – | – | 1 | – | 3 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 19 | 14 | 3 | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| West and Central Asia | Turkey | 660 | – | – | 1 | 5 | 15 | 37 | 78 | 133 | 157 | 110 | 72 | 32 | 11 | 4 | 4 | – | 1 | – | – | – |
| Afghanistan | 962 | – | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 30 | 59 | 98 | 157 | 205 | 170 | 135 | 61 | 19 | 5 | 5 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | |
| Other | 997 | – | 7 | 1 | 10 | 28 | 44 | 83 | 130 | 157 | 205 | 134 | 107 | 49 | 22 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | – | – | |
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| Africa | North | 279 | – | – | 1 | – | 3 | 4 | 9 | 34 | 49 | 71 | 52 | 33 | 21 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – |
| West and Center | 23 | – | – | 5 | 3 | – | – | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| South | 121 | – | 1 | 14 | 39 | 35 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
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| South Asia | Pakistan | 73 | – | – | 2 | – | 7 | 15 | 21 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – |
| India | 1,999 | 1 | 57 | 202 | 291 | 501 | 378 | 269 | 142 | 101 | 44 | 10 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Maldives | 33 | – | 19 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Myanmar | 18 | – | – | 6 | 2 | – | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Southeast Asia | 18 | – | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
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| East Asia | China | 202 | – | – | 23 | 55 | 19 | 7 | 19 | 18 | 21 | 17 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Korea | 28 | – | – | 12 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Japan | 82 | – | 2 | 20 | 42 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
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| 7,396 | 2 | 134 | 311 | 480 | 668 | 654 | 764 | 859 | 999 | 966 | 691 | 468 | 236 | 86 | 45 | 20 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||
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The data of 100 seeds weight was obtained from the GRIN database of USDA-ARS (http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/).