Morphological and Genetic Diversity of Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Fruit Development

Grumet, Rebecca; Lin, Ying-Zu; Rett-Cadman, Stephanie; Malik, Ajaz Ahmad

doi:10.3390/plants12010023

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“…Mostly, vegetable plants from the Cucurbitaceae family shortly after flower formation fail to fertilize the embryo and cause the bisexual flower or pistil to abort due to genetic makeup or environmental conditions, resulting in decreased yield/plant [64,65]. The combined application of NAA and potassium nitrate will significantly increase the vitality and activity of the female flower and this will, therefore, reduce abortion and improve the chances of fertilization occurring [60,66,67].…”

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The Effect of Foliar Application with Naphthalene Acetic Acid and Potassium Nitrate on the Growth, Sex Ratio, and Productivity of Cucumbers (Cucumis sativas L.) under High Temperatures in Semi-Arid Areas

Alotaibi,

El Nagy,

Almuziny

et al. 2024

Agronomy

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High temperatures in late spring, summer, and autumn are one of the main elements limiting cucumber production. Heat stress in cucumber plants leads to significant changes in sex expression and negative effects at the physiological stage, including decreased absorption of water and nutrients, decreased photosynthetic functions, and increased respiration, which in turn affects growth and production. Therefore, it is very difficult for cucumber plants exposed to heat stress to improve their productivity, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. Cucumber plants bear a variety of flower forms, including staminate, pistillate, and hermaphrodites that occur in different arrangements. In addition, maleness is considered the main problem in cucumber production, as it significantly reduces fruit yield. Recently, the growth, flowering, and productivity of plants have been controlled with the help of growth-regulating substances, and one of these substances is naphthalene acetic acid (NAA), which is of great importance in modifying sex in cucumber and various cucurbit crops. Two experiments were conducted during 2022 and 2023 during the summer season to study the effect of foliar spraying of two levels of potassium nitrate, 500 mg/L and 1000 mg/L, and two levels of NAA, 50 mg/L and 100 mg/L, individually and together, and the comparison treatment in nine treatments on growth traits, sex ratio, fruit traits and yield of cucumber (Cucumis sativas L.) plants in three replicates in a completely randomized block design. The results indicated that applying the treatment containing 1000 mg/L KNO3 + 100 mg/L NAA led to obtaining the highest value in most vegetable growth, flowering, and production parameters, with a significant increase compared to the control and all other treatments. Followed by treatments consisting of potassium nitrate and NAA, which gave high values in the traits of sex ratio %, fruit setting %, fruit yield, and most other traits. This study showed the importance of spraying with both NAA and potassium nitrate, individually or in combination, and the high combined effect of both in the treatments that contained each of them in the vegetative growth traits and floral traits such as the number of female flowers, the sexual ratio, fruit set percentage, weight fruit, length fruit, and the fruit yield in cucumber plants grown in the summer season with high temperatures

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Section: Effect Of Potassium Nitrate and Naa On The Flowering Stagementioning

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The Effect of Foliar Application with Naphthalene Acetic Acid and Potassium Nitrate on the Growth, Sex Ratio, and Productivity of Cucumbers (Cucumis sativas L.) under High Temperatures in Semi-Arid Areas

Alotaibi,

El Nagy,

Almuziny

et al. 2024

Agronomy

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“…Buah mentimun dapat dimakan langsung sebagai lalapan atau sebagai bahan makanan olahan seperti acar (Mallick, 2022), mengandung 95% air, 16 Kcal, 16% vitamin K, antioksidan, flavonoid, mineral dan vitamin (Patel & Panigrahi, 2019;Sari et al, 2021;Samad et al, 2022;Grumet et al, 2022). Beberapa penelitian sebagai upaya peningkatan produksi tanaman mentimun telah dilakukan seperti kajian tentang pengaruh pemupukan dalam sistem budidaya (Aritonang et al, 2018;Khoirunnisa et al, 2019;Sallam et al, 2021;Majeed, 2021;Fransisko et al, 2021;Gumelar & Wiguna, 2022;Padang et al, 2023;Handayani et al, 2023), dan penelitian mengenai serangga arthropoda yang terdapat pada budidaya tanaman mentimun (Azad et al, 2013;Painkra et al, 2019;Srinivas et al, 2022).…”

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Arthropod Population in The Canopy of Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Plants in Talang Ilir Hamlet, Banyuasin Regency

Nunilahwati,

Nisfuriah,

Purwanti

et al. 2023

JGSA

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Arthropods are a diverse group of animals and play an important role in agricultural ecosystems, including in cucumber plantings in Talang Ilir Hamlet, Banyuasin Regency. This research aims to determine the diversity and abundance of arthropods in the canopy of cucumber plantations in Talang Ilir Hamlet, Banyuasin Regency. The research was carried out in February and April 2023 at 3 cucumber planting locations in Talang Ilir Hamlet, Banyuasin Regency. Observations were made by identifying, and recording the number and type of arthropods at different times in each location. The research used a Factorial Randomized Block Design and the research data were analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and a further BNT test at 5% level. The research results showed that the arthropod species found at the 3 observation locations were Coccinella sp, Aulacophora sp, Diaphania sp, Spodoptera sp, Ideopsis sp, and Apis sp. The highest average number of arthropods was found in A2 (Diaphania sp) 3.37 individuals, and followed by A5 (Apis sp), A1 (Coccinella sp), A6 (Ideopsis sp), A3 (Aulacophora sp) and A4 (Spodoptera sp) respectively. 2.90, 1.77, 1.47, 1.23 and 0.10 tails. Location 1 (L1) had a higher average number of arthropods, namely 2.22 compared to Location 2 (L2) 1.57 and Location 3 (L3) 1.63 arthropods. Based on the type and location of observations, it was concluded that there were significant differences in the number of arthropods in the cucumber plantings of Talang Ilir Hamlet, Banyuasin Regency.

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“…The plant is cultivated throughout the world for immature fruit that are eaten fresh or processed into pickles. The fruit are formed from an inferior ovary and harvested toward the end of its exponential growth, approximately two weeks after it begins to flower (Grumet et al, 2023). Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) 2n = 2x = 14, is a vegetable grown all around the world (Huh et al, 2008), as is one of the most widely cultivated plants in the world.…”

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Growth and yield performance of X-ray irradiated cucumber

Onuche,

Amos

2024

dujopas

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Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is a very important fruit which makes its demand and consumption continually on the increase all over the world. X-ray is an ionizing radiation and a physical mutagen with great potentials in creating artificial variability in crops. The employment of x-ray irradiation has been underutilized in plant mutagenesis, hence this study sought to determine its effect on the germination and agro-morphological traits of cucumber. Cucumber seeds were obtained from an agro-allied store and exposed to x-ray radiation from a source 70 KVA at a distance of 90cm and doses 10, 20, 30 and 40mAs. The field experiment was carried out in duplicate using a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD). Irradiated and unirradiated (control) seeds were sown directly on a total of ten prepared plots measuring 2.44 by 1.50 m. The result generated in this study show a positive shift at the higher doses (30 and 40 mAs) with reduced number of days to fruit maturity and increased number of fruits per plant when compared to the control and other doses. A strong positive correlation was observed among some traits studied, indicating the possibility of such traits being under the influence of the same gene and the ability to be inherited together. Zonata, a chlorophyll mutant was observed at 30 mAs indicating how successful the dose was in inducing beneficial mutation on the Cucumber. Higher doses of x-ray irradiation as used in this study is therefore recommended for the genetic improvement of other vegetable and under developed crops.

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Morphological and Genetic Diversity of Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Fruit Development

Cited by 9 publications

References 155 publications

The Effect of Foliar Application with Naphthalene Acetic Acid and Potassium Nitrate on the Growth, Sex Ratio, and Productivity of Cucumbers (Cucumis sativas L.) under High Temperatures in Semi-Arid Areas

The Effect of Foliar Application with Naphthalene Acetic Acid and Potassium Nitrate on the Growth, Sex Ratio, and Productivity of Cucumbers (Cucumis sativas L.) under High Temperatures in Semi-Arid Areas

Arthropod Population in The Canopy of Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) Plants in Talang Ilir Hamlet, Banyuasin Regency

Growth and yield performance of X-ray irradiated cucumber

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