The cucumber is a widely cultivated creeping vine in the Cucurbitaceae family, grown for its cylindrical to spherical fruit and used as a culinary vegetable in slicing, pickling and seedless types. It originates in Asia, in a region spanning India, Nepal, Bangladesh, China and northern Thailand, and has been cultivated for at least 3,000 years; China now leads world production. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Scientific Name Domestication RegionIndia, Nepal, Bangladesh, China (Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi), and Northern Thailand 2 Domesticated When (Circa)cultivated for at least 3,000 years; the source gives no single domestication year 2 Cucumber
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Cucumber mosaic virus was first described in cucumber and remains a significant cucurbit pathogen.
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They have been cultivated for at least 3,000 years
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The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the family Cucurbitaceae that bears cylindrical to spherical fruits, used as culinary vegetables.
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Cucumis sativus
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The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the family Cucurbitaceae that bears cylindrical to spherical fruits, used as culinary vegetables.
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The cucumber originates in Asia, in a region extending from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, China (Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi), and Northern Thailand
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They have been cultivated for at least 3,000 years, and were eaten all year round by the Roman Emperor Tiberius.
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Considered an annual plant, there are three main types: slicing, pickling, and seedless.
View the Source Silverleaf Whitefly (Wikipedia)
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Common hosts are agricultural crops including tomatoes, squash, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, melons, cotton, carrots, sweet potato, cucumber, and pumpkin, and ornamental plants such as poinsettia, crepe myrtle, garden roses, lantana, and lilies.
Tobacco Mosaic Virus (Wikipedia)
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It is known to infect members of nine plant families, and at least 125 individual species, including tobacco, tomato, pepper (all members of the Solanaceae), cucumbers, a number of ornamental flowers, and beans including Phaseolus vulgaris and Vigna unguiculata.
Papaya Ringspot Virus (Wikipedia)
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Isolates of PRSV-W do infect cucurbits such as watermelon, cucumber, and squash and were originally known as Watermelon mosaic virus 1.
Reniform Nematode (Wikipedia)
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It has a wide host range that includes fruit trees, lentil, cotton, pigeon pea, tea, tobacco, soybean, pineapple, banana, okra, coconut, cabbage, sweet potato, alfalfa, corn, asparagus, palm, cucumber, tomato, squash, cassava, radish, eggplant, guava, melon, chickpea, and ginger.
Didymella bryoniae (Wikipedia)
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Mycosphaerella melonis, is an ascomycete fungal plant pathogen that causes gummy stem blight on the family Cucurbitaceae (the family of gourds and melons), which includes cantaloupe, cucumber, muskmelon and watermelon plants.
Colletotrichum orbiculare (Wikipedia)
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It can affect cucumbers, melon, squash, watermelon and pumpkin, especially when the weather is rainy, humid and warm.
Bacterial fruit blotch (Wikipedia)
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It also affects pumpkin, zucchini and cucumber but these are not as economically devastated by fruit blotch as the melons.
Hop stunt viroid (Wikipedia)
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infects the common hop plant, citrus plants, grapevines, cucumber, and several Prunus species
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