A Truncated F-Box Protein Confers the Dwarfism in Cucumber

Dwarfism is an important plant architecture trait in crop breeding(Peng et al.,1999;Sasaki el al.,2002).In cucurbits.the compact plant type was proposed to develop new varieties for the once-over mechanical harvest for concentrated fruit set and higher densities(Li et al.,2011;Mondal et al.,2011).Several recessive genes in cucurbits have been reported to confer the phenotype of short internodes or bushy plant habits,such as compact,cp-2,and dw in cucumber(Cucumis sativus