Abstract: | The study reviewed the progress of bend in cucumber fruit, and concluded the importance of bend in cucumber fruit and questions in recent researches, and proposed the main research orientations. Fruit shape of cucumber is one of important exterior quality traits. Recently, studies on bend characteristic of cucumber fruit were mainly focused on identification of fruit bend, effect of the environmental factors, curvature occurrence and its recovery in cucumber ovary and fruit, foundation of cucumber fruit shape visualized system and prevention methods and etc. However, there are few literatures on bend in cucumber fruit, and even less on heredity and molecular mechanism of bend in cucumber fruit. Therefore, it is necessary to prove up intrinsic heredity mechanism of bend in cucumber using modern molecular biological theory and technology, and to reveal the formation mechanism of bend in cucumber fruit from cellular biology and molecular biology. |