A new male sterile (MS) mutant was found in 1988 in an inbred
line of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) in the greenhouse of
Sunseeds Company. The mutant is characterized by normal
corolla in both male and female flowers, normal fertility in
the female, and absence of pollen in otherwise normal-appearing...
Gynoecious inbred lines of cucumbers (Cucumis sativus
L.) with high (HF), medium (MF) and low (LF) percentage of
gynoecious plants were used in crosses with monoecious
Chinese cultivars with high (HN), medium (MN) and low (LN)
percentage of nodes with female flowers. F₁ and F₂ progenies
from these parents crossed...