Cucurbita ecuadorensis

Cucurbita ecuadorensis is self compatible and thus less likely to accumulate heterozygotes for deleterious, recessive genes than are the obligate outcrosssing Lycopersicon species. No chlorophyll deficient or other mutants were found in the self pollinated progeny of several C. ecuadorensis plants, indicating that heterozygosity for deleterious recessive genes is not common in that species. The original albino mutant found in the F2 of C. maxima x C. More