Field studies were conducted in 1993 and 1994 to evaluate the effects of induced resistance in cucumber by plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) on numbers of the spotted cucumber beetle, Diabrotica undecimpunctata howardi Barber, and the striped cucumber beetle, Acalymma vittatum (F.). Cucumber plant growth and yields were significantly (P<0.05) greater, and populations of cucumber beetl...

We report the case of a 76-year-old woman who experienced dizziness, vomiting, dyspnea, thoracic erythema, and vaginal itching within 5 minutes of eating cucumber. She had been diagnosed 3 months earlier with papaya urticaria and latex sensitization. The results of skin prick tests were positive for cucumber, watermelon, papaya, and latex and negative for melon and profilin extracts. ImmunoCAP ...

The integrated management of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) diseases play a key role in guaranteeing the high quality and security of cucumber production in greenhouse, moreover, the early warning of cucumber diseases is the chief precondition for IPM (Integrated Pest Management). This paper describes an attempt to develop an early warning system for cucumber diseases in greenhouse. By analysing...

Members of the phylum Echinodermata, commonly known as echinoderms, are exclusively marine invertebrates. Among the Echinodermata, sea cucumber belongs to the family Holothuroidea. The sea cucumber Stichopus (Apostichous) japonicus (Selenka) is an invertebrate animal inhabiting the coastal sea around Korean, Japan, China, and Russia. Sea cucumber has a significant commercial value, because it c...

It has been reported that ethylene production by cucumber plants is strongly related to the sex expression of their flowers. It has also been shown that both CS-ACS2 gene expression and ethylene evolution are much greater in gynoecious cucumber plants than monoecious ones. To investigate the action mechanism of ethylene in the induction of femaleness of cucumber flowers, we isolated three ethyl...

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) fermentation on the texture and organic acid of pickled cucumbers. Texture and sensory evaluation as well as a microscopic observation were performed to study the textural differences among fresh cucumber, Spontaneous fermentation (SF) cucumber and LAB Inoculating Fermentation (LABIF) cucumber. Accumulation of seve...

Aphis gossypii Glover is one of the most important pests of greenhouse cucumber and pepper in the world and Iran. In this research, life table and biology of A. gossypii were investigated on cucumber (Cucumis sativus cv. Super Sultan) and pepper (Capsicum annum cv. Marqueza) in a growth chamber at 25±1°C and 60±5% RH and a photoperiod of 14 L: 10 D hour. The results showed that developmental ti...

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is one of the most important vegetables and contains a high content of nutritionally beneficial metabolites. However, little is known about the metabolic variations among different parts of cucumber fruit and their kinetics during growth. In this study, the dynamic metabolic profiles in the stylar end, the intermediate segment and the peduncular end of cucumber fru...

The integrated management of Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) for cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) plays a key role in guaranteeing the high quality and safety of cucumber production. This paper describes an attempt to develop a web-based GAP management information system for cucumber. Through applying the system methodology and mathematical modeling technique to analyzing the dynamic relationshi...

Closely related cucurbit species possess eightfold differences in the sizes of their mitochondrial genomes. We cloned mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) fragments showing strong hybridization signals to cucumber mtDNA and little or no signal to watermelon mtDNA. The cucumber mtDNA clones carried short (30-53 bp), repetitive DNA motifs that were often degenerate, overlapping, and showed no homology to an...