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Developing climate‐resilient crops is critical for future food security and sustainable agriculture under current climate scenarios. Of specific importance are drought and soil salinity. Tolerance traits to these stresses are highly complex, and the progress in improving crop tolerance is too slow to cope with the growing demand in food production unless a major paradigm shift in crop breeding occurs...
The presence or absence of spines is an important economic trait of cucumber fruit. Spines are believed to be a type of specialized trichome on the fruit surface, and all the identified cucumber trichome‐less mutants lack fruit spines. However, genes that specifically regulate fruit spine initiation remain to be identified. Here, we found that knocking out cucumber TARGET OF EAT3 homolog (CsTOE3),...