“…Genes encoding TPS have been identified in many plants in the form of a gene family (Avonce et al, 2004). Previous studies have found 11, 11, 11, 8, 20, 13, 12, 10, 9 and 53 TPS genes in Arabidopsis (Yang et al, 2012), rice (Zang et al, 2011), pepper (Wei et al, 2016), potato (Xu et al, 2017), soybean (Xie, Wang & Huang, 2014), apple (Du et al, 2017), winter wheat (Xie et al, 2015), tomato (Chen & Lou, 2017), sugarcane (Hu et al, 2020), and cotton (Mu et al, 2016), respectively. However, the TPS gene family in cucumber has not been well-studied.…”