Pumpkin Fruit Size and Quality Improve with Leaf Mulch

The effect of fruit competition and leaf area on fruit size of strawberry

The Fruit Rots of Pumpkin

The word “pumpkin” is derived from the Latin word pepo, which is a botanical term for fruit with a hard rind and fleshy interior. The commonly used scientific name for pumpkins is Cucurbita pepo. But some other cucurbits, such as Cucurbita moschata (e.g., ‘Dickenson’ and ‘Libby Select’, known as processing pumpkin) (Figure 1, B) and Cucurbita maxima, which are winter squash, are also known as p...

Using genomics to improve fruit quality.

New fruit varieties are needed to satisfy consumers, and the industry is facing new challenges in order to respond to these demands. The emergence of genomic tools is releasing information on polymorphisms that can be utilized to expedite breeding processes in species that are difficult to breed, given the long periods of time required to get new varieties. The present review describes the curr...

Nutritional quality characteristics of pumpkin fruit as revealed by its biochemical analysis

Growing population, together with unpredictable climatic changes and dwindling fertile land, has forced to explore the alternate underutilized flora from the rich biome. There is a great opportunity for economic growth in agriculture system by introducing underutilized commodity in market place. Therefore, the present study was undertaken to elucidate the nutritional potential of an important u...

Effect of Fruit Size and Temperature on the Shelf Life and Quality of Ripe Banana Fruit

The research was carried out to investigate the effect of fruit size, ripening temperature on the shelf life and quality of ripe banana fruit of two sizes, small (14 cm) and large (20cm). It is concluded that ethylene treatment with 1000 ppm for 24 hours is sufficient to initiate the ripening in both sizes of bananas. It was also observed that there was no difference between the shelf life of s...