Abstract Cucumber, Cucumis sativus L.(2n= 2x= 14), is an important vegetable crop
worldwide. It was the first specialty crop with a publicly available draft genome. Its relatively …

Ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B, 280–315 nm) is an important environmental signal that
regulates growth and development in plants. Two dose-dependent UV-B response …

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

In Arabidopsis, the photoreceptors phytochrome B (PhyB) and UV-B resistance 8 (UVR8)
mediate light responses that play a major role in regulating photomorphogenic hypocotyl …

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is an important vegetable crop species with great economic
value. Shoot architecture determines the visual appearance of plants and has a strong …

Cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. is an important vegetable crop worldwide. Among the~ 66
species in the genus Cucumis, cucumber is the only one with 2n= 2x= 14 chromosomes …

Key message QTL analysis revealed 11 QTL underlying flowering time and fruit size
variation in the semi-wild Xishuangbanna cucumber, of which, FT6. 2 and FS5. 2 played the …

Abstract The Xishuangbanna (XIS) cucumber (Cucumis sativus var. xishuangbannanesis) is
a semiwild variety that has many distinct agronomic traits. Here, long reads generated by …

Background Green flesh color, resulting from the accumulation of chlorophyll, is one of the
most important commercial traits for the fruits. The genetic network regulating green flesh …

Background 337S is a novel bi-pole-photo-thermo-sensitive genic male sterile line in wheat,
and sensitive to both long day length/high temperature and short day length/low temperature …