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‘Butterbowl’ Squash, A Novel, Flatshouldered Globe Butternut, Dermot P. Coyne, James M. Reiser, Durward Smith, Aly Ibrahim, Lisa Sutton, Dale T. Lindgren

West Central Research and Extension Center, North Platte

Butternut squash (Cucurbita moschata Duch. Ex Poir) is one of the most popular winter squashes grown in the United States. However, current consumers not only bake but also microwave squash. The flesh is much thinner at the bulb end of the fruit around the seed cavity than in the neck of the typical butternut squash so that the whole fruit does not cook uniformly during the microwave process. A smaller butternut type squash with a more uniform flesh thickness around most of the seed cavity would be expected to cook more uniformly in the microwave and would be useful …