Private Breeding Programs

The following seed companies are working on cucumber or watermelon breeding for the U.S. market. As in most industries these days, many have combined with other seed companies, or have been bought by agricultural biotechnology or chemical companies.

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Company	Acquired, merged with, or evolved from	Plant breeder
Cucumber
Harris Moran	Ferry Morse, Joseph Harris, Moran, Magnum	Adam Call
Hollar & Co.	Hollar	Qi Zhang
Nunhems	ARCO, Abbott and Cobb, Castle, Dessert, Sunseeds, Nunhems, BASF	Michelle Wood
Sakata Seeds	Agroceres, Alf Christianson, Sakata	–
Seminis Vegetable Seeds	Asgrow Vegetable Seeds (inc. Vlasic Seeds), Barham Seeds, Bruinsma, California, Choong Ang, DeVine Ripe/LSL, Genencorp, Hung Nong, Horticeres, PetoSeed and Royal Sluis	Nischit Shetty
United Genetics	Magnum Seed, United Genetics	(Ken Owens)
Watermelon
Abbott and Cobb	Abbott and Cobb	(Hasib Humaydan)
Harris Moran	Ferry Morse, Joseph Harris, Moran	Grant Neppl
Hollar & Co.	Hollar	Bruce Carle
Nunhems	ARCO, Abbott and Cobb, Castle, Dessert, Sunseeds, Nunhems, Bayer	Erik deGroot, YenMing Chang
Sakata Seeds	Agroceres, Alf Christianson, Sakata	Nihat Guner
Seminis Vegetable Seeds	Asgrow Vegetable Seeds (inc. Vlasic Seeds), Barham Seeds, Bruinsma, California, Choong Ang, DeVine Ripe/LSL, Genencorp, Hung Nong, Horticeres, PetoSeed, Royal Sluis	Jerome Bernier
Sugar Creek	Sugar Creek	(Glen Price)
Syngenta, Rogers	American Sunmelon, Musser, Northrup King, Rogers, Sluis and Groot	Ajay Sandhu
United Genetics	United Genetics	Robert Mahinan, Wei Ouyang
U.S. Seedless	U.S. Seedless	Len Cantor
Willhite Seed	Willhite	Don Dobbs