We thank Mahmoud Lotfi and Betsy Ingall for assistance in evaluating melon quality, George Moriarty for technical support, and MaryKreitingerforassistancewithstatisticalanalysis. We acknowledge support from USDA IFAFS Plant genome Award 2001-52100-113347 through the Public Seeds Initiative.We also thank Hannah Kyle for assistance in evaluating melon quality and for the use of her name. Lastly, we thank Dick Robinson and Chris Wien for reviewing this paper. Research support specialist. Emeritus professor. Professor; to whom reprint requests should be ad dressed, e-mail mmj9@comell.edu