Patent ID: 9650645
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: A01H,C12N

Claim:
1. A method of producing a hybrid cucumber seed that when said seed is grown into a plant, said plant exhibits an increased number of fruit of at least 16% or an average increased fruit yield of approximately 8% or 9% kg/m 2 as compared to an isogenic cucumber plant carrying none of the small leaf genes, or an average increased fruit yield of about 4% kg/m 2 as compared to an isogenic cucumber plant carrying only one of the small leaf genes, wherein the small leaf genes are present homozygously in a cucumber plant, representative seed of which plant is deposited with the NCIMB under deposit number NCIMB 41946, said method comprising crossing a first parent cucumber plant with a second parent cucumber plant and harvesting the resultant hybrid cucumber seed; wherein: