The Cucurbitaceae family comprises economically valuable vegetables such as cucumber, melon, and pumpkin. GRAS proteins, which are crucial transcription factors, play diverse roles in plant growth development. However, comparative investigations of proteins across species limited. Here, we identified 241 genes six cucurbit crops. number wax gourd, watermelon, bottle gourd ranged from 36 to 37, ...

Fresh-cut vegetables are exposed to the risk of Salmonella spp. contamination. Effective sterilization methods and early warning systems play important roles in ensuring food safety fresh-cut products. The aim this study was evaluate effect tea polyphenols (TP) combined with thermosonication (TS) treatment on inactivation enterica wax gourd develop estimate models using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inf...

Four vegetables brinjal, bitter gourd, colocasia and tomato were subjected for total protein, crude fiber, ash calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, ascorbic acid and folic acid contents in raw peeled raw cooked and peeled cooked forms. Losses of nutrients due to peeling and cooking were determined. The loss of protein was non-significant during peeling and was significant during cooking e...

Luffa aegyptiaca (Luffa sponge gourd) is increasingly seen as both a source of vegetative nutrition and as a source of the “luffa” used as to exfoliate during bathing. As such, the commercial growing of Luffa aegyptiaca is increasingly being investigated using more intensive farming methods. Two factors traditionally used to promote / speed germination and emergence of vegetable seeds is invest...

Genetic variability, heritability in broad sense and expected genetic advance as percent of mean for fruit yield and nine characters were studied in 25 pointed gourd genotypes. Fruits per plant and fruit yield per plant showed maximum variability. Genotypic coefficient of variation was found high for fruit yield and number of fruits per plant. All the characters under study were highly heritabl...

The mammalian lung provides a system of airways in which inspired air is brought into intimate contact with the blood. As well as carrying out this essential physiological function, the hollow structure of the lung has enabled investigators to produce casts of the airways, the study of which has helped in the understanding of air movements within the lung. The dependence of higher forms of life...

Abstract Lagenaria siceraria (bottle gourd) fruit is highly celebrated for its nutritional as well therapeutic properties. The present study was undertaken with the aim of exploring an efficient green solvent-free microwave-assisted extraction method bioactives from this fruit. Optimization done according to response surface methodology (RSM), where microwave power (W) and time (s) were indepen...