Cucumber is an important vegetable crop that has high nutritional and economic value and is thus favored by consumers worldwide. Exploring an accurate and fast technique for measuring the morphological traits of cucumber fruit could be helpful for improving its breeding efficiency and further refining the development models for pepo fruits. At present, several sets of measurement schemes and standards have been proposed and applied for the characterization of cucumber fruits; however, these manual methods are time-consuming and inefficient.
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