{"id":2048,"date":"2019-04-18T17:28:01","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T09:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2019-04-18T17:28:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T09:28:01","slug":"genetic-variant-linked-cucumber-fruit-length","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/04\/18\/genetic-variant-linked-cucumber-fruit-length\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetic variant linked to cucumber fruit length"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/img.agropages.com\/UserFiles\/FCKFile\/zkc_2019-04-18_07-36-52_630.bmp\" width=\"516\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Different cucumber cultivars show wide variation in mature fruit length.<\/em><\/div>\n<p>The cucumber is among the top five vegetable crops grown in the world. Cucumbers are most commonly eaten fresh or preserved as pickles. An important attribute of the cucumber is fruit length. Cucumbers range in size from 5 to 60 cm, depending on the cultivar.<\/p>\n<div>\nIn an effort to identify the genetic basis of fruit length variation in cucumber, a team of researchers led by Xiaolan Zhang at China Agricultural University analyzed 150 cucumber lines with different fruit lengths. They identified two variants of a gene named\u00a0<em>CsFUL1\u00a0<\/em>that differed by a single base pair in the DNA code. The\u00a0<em>CsFUL1<sup>A<\/sup>\u00a0<\/em>variant appeared in long-fruited East Asian cucumbers, whereas the CsFUL1<sup>C<\/sup>\u00a0variant was randomly distributed in wild and semi-wild cucumber populations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The researchers demonstrated that decreased expression of\u00a0<em>CsFUL1<sup>A<\/sup>\u00a0<\/em>was responsible for longer fruit, whereas shorter fruit was caused by increased expression of the A variant, or by the C variant at this locus, which they showed is not fully functional. Therefore, the authors concluded that\u00a0<em>CsFUL1<sup>A<\/sup>\u00a0<\/em>functions as a repressor of fruit length that emerged during selection of Asian long cucumber. They further showed that CsFUL1<sup>A<\/sup>\u00a0directly represses the expression of CsSUP, a known regulator of cell expansion and division. In addition, the expression of two auxin transporter genes,\u00a0<em>CsPIN1\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>CsPIN7<\/em>, was found to be directly inhibited by\u00a0<em>CsFUL1<\/em><sup><em>A<\/em><\/sup>, leading to reduced accumulation of the growth hormone auxin.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This research has singled out a key modulator of fruit length and sets the stage for developing strategies to manipulate fruit length in cucumber breeding.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"tl clearfix mt10\">\n<h4 class=\"p-source c-999 cb pt5\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a class=\"c-orange fs16\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/news.agropages.com\/Media\/MediaIndex-6499.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Plant Cell<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different cucumber cultivars show wide variation in mature fruit length. The cucumber is among the top five vegetable crops grown in the world. Cucumbers are most commonly eaten fresh or preserved as pickles. An important attribute of the cucumber is fruit length. Cucumbers range in size from 5 to 60 cm, depending on the cultivar.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/04\/18\/genetic-variant-linked-cucumber-fruit-length\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Genetic variant linked to cucumber fruit length<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Genetic variant linked to cucumber fruit length - agrinoon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2019\/04\/18\/genetic-variant-linked-cucumber-fruit-length\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Genetic variant linked to cucumber fruit length - agrinoon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Different cucumber cultivars show wide variation in mature fruit length. 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