Figures (6)  Tables (2)

    • Figure 1. 

      Results of investigating cucumber phenotypes.

    • Figure 2. 

      Commercial quality of cucumber fruit.

    • Figure 3. 

      Results of the differential gene expression analysis of the transcriptome data.

    • Figure 4. 

      Results of the functional enrichment analysis of transcriptomic data.

    • Figure 5. 

      Establishment of the machine learning model.

    • Figure 6. 

      Relative expression levels of CsWIP2 and CsPILS7 revealed by qPCR.

    • 2025 spring 2025 autumn
      Control group Treatment group Control group Treatment Group
      Fruit length (cm) 30.3 ± 10.95 34.6 ± 7.3* 32.36 ± 3.04 34.95 ± 3.63*
      Fruit transverse (cm) 3.52 ± 1.29 4.09 ± 0.95* 3.85 ± 0.62 4.25 ± 0.54*
      Single fruit weight (g) 421.47 ± 145.133 483.70 ± 83.32* 394.72 ± 123.45 468.32 ± 81.83*
      Fruit setting rate (%) 83.3 93.2* 68.4 95.7*
      Average fruit number per plant 2.1 2.5* 2.1 2.6*
      Yield (kg) 11.66 17.06* 12.43 18.26*
      Note: * indicates p ≤ 0.05

      Table 1. 

      Results of investigating postharvest yield-related traits of cucumber.

    • 2025 spring 2025 autumn
      Control group Treatment group Control group Treatment group
      Peduncle length (cm) 3.67 ± 0.50 3.53 ± 0.79 2.74 ± 0.36 2.93 ± 0.66
      Locular diameter (cm) 1.64 ± 0.33 1.94 ± 0.50*
      Locular diameter/fruit diameter 0.42 ± 0.07 0.45 ± 0.09
      Fruit flesh thickness (cm) 1.11 ± 0.26 1.16 ± 0.18
      Fruit flesh thickness/fruit diameter 0.28 ± 0.04 0.27 ± 0.04
      Curvature index (°) 27.98 ± 20.31 5.32 ± 6.43*** 21.24 ± 17.17 3.76 ± 4.63***
      Fruit bending rate (%) 25.6 0 16.7 0
      Fruit secondary bending rate (%) 43.6 25.7 55.6 15
      Fruit straightness rate (%) 30.8 74.3 27.8 85
      Note: * indicates p ≤ 0.05

      Table 2. 

      Results of investigating postharvest commercial traits of cucumber.