With the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Program on Key Basic Research Projects in China,Huang Sanwen’s group from the Institute of Vegetables and Flowers,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences revealed that a recent copy number variation(CNV)of a particular DNA segment gives rise to cucumbers bearing only female flowers by collaborating with several international labs such as Fei Zhangjun’s lab from the Boyce Thompson Institute,Cornell University.It With the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Program on Key Basic Research Projects in China, Huang Sanwen’s group from the Institute of Vegetables and Flowers, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences revealed that a recent copy number variation (CNV) of a particular DNA segment gives rise to cucumbers bearing only female flowers by collaborating with several international labs such as Fei Zhangjun’s lab from the Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University. It