The Cucurbitaceae family provides numerous important crops including watermelons
(Citrullus lanatus), melons (Cucumis melo), cucumbers (Cucumis sativus), and pumpkins …

Vegetables are an integral part of the human diet worldwide. Traditional breeding
approaches have been used extensively to develop new cultivars of vegetables with …

Fruit length is a key domestication trait that affects crop yield and appearance. Cucumber
(Cucumis sativus) fruits vary from 5 to 60 cm in length. Despite the identification of several …

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) fruits, which are eaten at an immature stage of development,
can vary extensively in morphological features such as size, shape, waxiness, spines, warts …

Key message A SNP mutation in CmSN, encoding an EamA-like transporter, is responsible
for fruit skin netting in melon. Abstract In maturing melon (Cucumis melo L.), the rind …

Fruits and seeds play essential roles in plant sexual reproduction and the human diet.
Successful fertilization involves delivery of sperm in the pollen tube to the egg cell within the …

The fruit surface is a critical first line of defense against environmental stress. Overlaying the
fruit epidermis is the cuticle, comprising a matrix of cutin monomers and waxes that provides …

Fruit glossiness is an important external fruit quality trait for fresh-consumed cucumber fruit,
affecting its marketability. Dull fruit appearance is mainly controlled by a single gene, D (for …

Rind color and pattern is the crucial fruit trait that preferentially affects the commercial
consumption of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). Knowing the genetic architecture of fruit rind …

Rapid progress has been made in classical genetics and traditional breeding in cucumber
for various quantitative and qualitative traits which greatly benefited the development of …