Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 39-40: 2017
Cucumber Gene Catalog
Yiqun Weng
USDA-ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit, Horticulture Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
Todd C. Wehner
Department of Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695
Introduction
This is an update of the 2010 version of Cucumber Gene List (Call and Wehner 2010). Since the public release of the cucumber draft genome in 2009, significant progress has been made in developing cucumber genetic and genomics resources. Many mutants have been identified and a number of genes or QTL have been tagged with molecular markers or cloned, which provides a better understanding of the inheritance and underlying genetic mechanisms of horticulturally important traits in cucumber. Major revisions have been made in this 2017 version of the cucumber gene catalog to reflect progress made in last several years. The following are some important changes made in this latest version of cucumber gene list.