Cucumber
The cucumber is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the family Cucurbitaceae that bears cylindrical to spherical fruits, used as culinary vegetables. Considered an annual plant, there are three main types of cucumber—slicing, pickling, and seedless.
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More flowers, more pollinators, less fruit: drought increases insec...
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Functional Conservation and Diversity of Phytochrome B and its Pote...
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Jasmonate regulates male sterility in cucumber.
Cucumber breeders can now target a specific hormonal pathway to engineer male-sterile plants for ...
Jasmonate regulates male sterility in cucumber.
Every cucumber in your garden depends on viable pollen reaching female flowers — this research un...
One broken gene leaves cucumber leaves defenseless against heat
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Ethylene-mediated CsWRKY41 regulates the PYL-PP2C module to promote...
Cucumbers in your garden are naturally wired to sprout emergency roots from their stems during a ...
Leftover mushroom growing medium fights cucumber wilt disease
If you've ever lost a cucumber patch to sudden wilting, the compost pile at your local mushroom f...
Charcoal from straw helps good bacteria protect cucumbers from wilt
If you've ever watched a healthy cucumber vine suddenly wilt and die despite your best care, this...
Scientists map cucumber genes for disease resistance, stress tolera...
Cucumbers you grow this summer struggle in heat waves and damp spells partly because breeders hav...
Scientists map cucumber genes to outsmart mildew diseases
If you've ever watched the leaves on your backyard cucumber vines turn white and crumple by midsu...
Fungus-fermented corncob scraps make soil crumblier and cucumbers g...
If your garden soil packs down hard or drains poorly, a small dose of fungus-fermented plant wast...
One gene controls cucumber's prickly skin and pest defense
The bumpy spines on a fresh cucumber aren't just texture, they're a chemical defense system, and ...
A plant hormone controls how cucumber pollen gets released
If you've ever grown cucumbers and wondered why some plants fruit poorly, this pathway is part of...
Vermiculite-coconut fiber mix grows better cucumbers, fights root pests
If you grow cucumbers in containers or a greenhouse, swapping potting soil for a vermiculite-coco...
Tiny helper proteins could make crops tougher in a changing climate
The tomatoes ripening on your vine and the rice on your plate both depend on these microscopic pr...
All-female cucumber varieties grow with richer, more helpful root microbes
If you grow cucumbers, the female-only ('gynoecious') varieties seed catalogs often push for heav...
Nanoparticle and hormone combo helps cucumbers shrug off salty soil
If you've ever watered a vegetable bed with hard or slightly salty tap water and watched the leav...
Two competing genes decide how long your cucumber grows
The next time you pick between a stubby pickling cucumber and a long slicing one at the farmers m...
Weeds near your garden can secretly spread cucumber mosaic virus
That patch of weeds you've been meaning to pull along the garden fence might be quietly incubatin...
