Monsanto Invest B.v.

Bram Rozier

Anita Afke De Haan

Marleen Van Luijk

Jeroen Sebastiaan De Vries

Martinus Quirinus Maria Van Paassen

The present invention provides a method for the production ofplants having an average sympodial index of 2 and producing red-colored fruits comprising crossing a plant ofcapable of producing red-colored fruits, with a plant of aspp. having an average sympodial index of 2, collecting the seeds resulting from the cross, regenerating the seeds into plants, providing one or more backcross generations, selfing the backross plants, growing the selfed seed into plants, and identifying and selecting plants having an average sympodial index of 2 and producing red-colored fruits.

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The present invention relates to a plant of a cucumber breeding line having an introgression from cucumber accession PI 169383, a representative sample of seed of which has been deposited with the NCIMB, Aberdeen, Scotland under accession number NCIMB 41532 and depositors reference PI169383, wherein said introgression is an introgression on linkage group 4 associated with increased yield of said plants, wherein said plant exhibits an increased yield relative a plant of said cucumber breeding line lacking said introgression, and wherein said increased yield refers to a higher total fruit weight per plant.

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