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Viewing report
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Breeding Parthenocarpic Cucumber. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 164
Cucumber breeders have employed several
methodologies to improve its yield. These include
the improvement of disease resistance, use of
gynoecious sex types, manipulation of plant
architecture, and increasing genetic variability.
Despite of these breeding efforts, the average yield
in processing cucumber in the United States has
plateaued in last twenty years. New research areas
need to be explored for yield improvement.
Parthenocarpy has potential for increasing and
stabilizing yield under inclement condition.
However, there is no knowledge is available for
parthenocarpy in gynoecious, U.S. processing type
cucumber. Therefore, a series of studies were
designed to determine the inheritance and location
of parthenocarpy in this market type by generation
mean analysis, variance component analysis, bulk
segregant analysis, and QTL mapping. This study
should help shed some light on understanding and
utilizing this new trait, and should be especially
useful to cucumber breeders and other scientists who
work on crop improvement through traditional and
molecular assistant breeding.
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