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

Domestication and improvement are two important stages in crop evolution. Melon (Cucumis
melo L.) is an important vegetable crop with wide phenotypic diversity in many horticultural …

Key message QTL mapping identified simply inherited genes and quantitative trait loci
underlying morphologically characteristic traits of the Sikkim cucumber, which reveals their …

In the post− genomics era, Agrobacterium tumefaciens− mediated genetic transformation is
becoming an increasingly indispensable tool for characterization of gene functions and crop …

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 …

Functional genomics studies the dynamic aspects of gene and genome expression, the fine
mechanisms of transcription and translation, as well as interprotein interactions of …

The carpel number (CN) is related to fruit shape variation in watermelon and represents one
of the most important agronomic traits. In this study, ZXG01553 (5‐CN type) and W1‐17 (3 …

This study focused on cucumbers' multi-pistillate flower (MPF) trait, which is essential for
high yields. A genetic linkage map was constructed using a population of 219 F2 plants to …

Genetic transformation is a versatile platform that is playing increasingly important roles in
functional genomics studies and crop improvement. Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is an …

Luffa is an important medicinal and edible vegetable crop of Cucurbitaceae. Strong
heterosis effects and strikingly complementary characteristics were found between the two …