Ask a plant researcher how the sex of a cucumber plant is determined and the person will tell you, "It's complicated." Depending on a complex mix of genetic and environmental factors, cucumbers can be ...
Ever seen this type of cucumber? This time-lapse shown how a burr gherkin/maroon cucumber was planted from a seed to ...
A new study, led by Zhangjun Fei of the Boyce Thompson Institute at Cornell University and Sanwen Huang of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing, has identified the DNA that’s ...
To investigate the regulatory mechanisms of sex expression in cucumber, morphological observations and biochemical analyses were carried out on inappropriate stamen development of female flowers of ...