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Accelerated Breeding in Cucumber Using Genomic Approaches

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Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is an important crop grown worldwide for its immature fruits. Conventional breeding methodologies were instrumental in developing improved varieties with several desirable traits. In the last two decades, very systematic efforts were made after wide application of molecular tools and availability of draft genome sequence of this crop. The cultivated genotypes of cucumber are originated from the wild type, C. sativus var. hardwickii, widely distributed in the northern foothills of Himalayas. This wild progenitor possesses several desirable traits related to fruit yield and stress tolerance. However, bitterness due to the presence of cucurbitacins in this wild species restricts its utilization in cucumber improvement programme. It was found that three major and two minor genes are responsible for sex expression in cucumber, and it is possible to manipulate the sex ratio to develop cultivars with higher fruit yield. A large number of molecular markers were developed and identified related to different stress resistance and important agronomic traits to accelerate the genomics-based breeding in cucumber. Significant progress has been made to develop complete homozygous lines through induction of haploids through both androgenesis and gynogenesis. However, application of high-throughput phenotyping, induced mutation and rapid generation cycling through greenhouse cultivation and in vitro flowering are the areas need to be focussed for future speed breeding strategies in cucumber. The available genomics-based information will be instrumental in the future accelerated breeding of cucumber.

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Dey, S.S., Behera, T.K., Bhatia, R., Munshi, A.D. (2020). Accelerated Breeding in Cucumber Using Genomic Approaches. In: Gosal, S., Wani, S. (eds) Accelerated Plant Breeding, Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47298-6_10

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