Called “cucumbers” in GBIF
Cucumis is a genus of twining, tendril-bearing plants in the family Cucurbitaceae which includes the cucumber, true melons, the horned melon, and the West Indian gherkin.
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If you've ever watched a healthy cucumber vine suddenly wilt and die despite your best care, this...
If you grow melons and have ever bitten into a bitter one, this work identifies the genetic switc...
If you've ever lost a cucumber patch to sudden wilting, the compost pile at your local mushroom f...
If you've ever grown cucumbers and wondered why some plants fruit poorly, this pathway is part of...
The melon on your cutting board today descends from a long line of fruit that people bred for loo...
The next time you pick between a stubby pickling cucumber and a long slicing one at the farmers m...
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Mixing a beneficial soil bacterium with wheat straw biochar lets it survive six times longer around cucumber roots, cutting Fusarium wilt disease rates from 73% to 20% in pot trials. The biochar also encouraged other helpful native microbes to move in, pointing to a cheaper, more durable way to protect crops without synthetic fungicides.
If your garden soil packs down hard or drains poorly, a small dose of fungus-fermented plant waste worked into the soil could...
If you grow melons and have ever bitten into a bitter one, this work identifies the genetic switches behind that harsh taste,...
That patch of weeds you've been meaning to pull along the garden fence might be quietly incubating a virus that jumps to your...
If you've ever lost a cucumber patch to sudden wilting, the compost pile at your local mushroom farm might hold a cheap,...
If you've ever grown cucumbers and wondered why some plants fruit poorly, this pathway is part of what decides whether male...
The melon on your cutting board today descends from a long line of fruit that people bred for looks and cooking use long...
The tomatoes ripening on your vine and the rice on your plate both depend on these microscopic protein-folding helpers to...
The next time you pick between a stubby pickling cucumber and a long slicing one at the farmers market, you're seeing the...
If you grow cucumbers in containers or a greenhouse, swapping potting soil for a vermiculite-cocopeat blend could mean bigger...
The bumpy spines on a fresh cucumber aren't just texture, they're a chemical defense system, and this gene is the switch that...
If you've ever watched the leaves on your backyard cucumber vines turn white and crumple by midsummer, this research is aimed...
If you grow tomatoes, eggplant, or melons under any kind of cover, a single insect that both sets your fruit and controls...
If you've ever watered a vegetable bed with hard or slightly salty tap water and watched the leaves yellow, this points to a...
The cucumbers wilting and yellowing in your garden during a summer heat wave may be reacting to exactly the kind of...
If you grow cucumbers, the female-only ('gynoecious') varieties seed catalogs often push for heavy yields may also come with a...
Cucumbers you grow this summer struggle in heat waves and damp spells partly because breeders have lacked precise genetic...
Your cucumber vines buzzing with bees during a dry summer aren't thriving — they're stressed, pumping out male flowers to lure...
The lacewings hovering around your melon vines may be responding to invisible chemical signals from a fungus quietly living...
Cucumbers in your garden are naturally wired to sprout emergency roots from their stems during a prolonged soak — and...
Every cucumber in your garden depends on viable pollen reaching female flowers — this research uncovers the hormone pathway...
Melon breeders now have a precise genetic target to eliminate the mouth-puckering bitterness that occasionally ruins an...
If you're growing cucumbers, melons, or squash through a brutal summer dry spell, specific varieties already exist that...
The cucumbers at your farmers market or in your garden are vulnerable to fast-spreading bacterial diseases that can wipe out...
Cucumber breeders can now target a specific hormonal pathway to engineer male-sterile plants for hybrid seed production —...
The melons in your grocery store may soon be grown with a third less water by farmers using simple plant boosters — meaning...
Tomatoes and cucumbers from South Asian farms are increasingly being wiped out by a whitefly-carried virus that crosses...
Tweaking how a plant senses light and heat could lead to tomatoes, rice, and wheat varieties that grow better in changing...
It could lead to a safe, natural spray or soil treatment that helps your garden cucumbers grow stronger and produce more...