Recent Progress in Genetic Transformation and Gene Editing Technology in Cucurbit Crops

Cucurbits (Cucurbitaceae) include major horticultural crops with high nutritional and economic value that also serve as model plants for studying plant development crop improvement. Conventional breeding methods have made important contributions to the production of cucurbit but led a bottleneck because narrow genetic bases low variation rates these crops. With molecular techniques, innovations in germplasm through transgenesis gene editing breakthroughs breeding. Although transformation techniques has lagged behind other crops, great progress been recent years. Here, we summarize advances improving efficiency including screening application physical treatments, morphogenic genes, selection markers. In addition, review technology CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat)/Cas9 (CRISPR-associated nuclease 9)-mediated knockout base editing. This work provides reference