In a study of residues from gourd and squash artifacts, we recovered starch grains from manioc (Manihot esculenta), potato (Solanum sp.), chili pepper (Capsicum spp.), arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea), and algarrobo (Prosopis sp.) from feasting contexts at the Buena Vista site, a central Peruvian preceramic site dating to approximately 2200 calendar years B.C. This study has implications for the...

Lagenaria siceraria (Mol.) Standley fruit (bottle gourd), a commonly used vegetable in India is described as cardiotonic and as a general tonic in Ayurveda. Keeping in view the presence of free radical scavenging activity in L. siceraria and involvement of free radicals in the development of various disorders, present studies were designed to evaluate the ethanolic extract of L. siceraria fruit...

The bitter gourd is bringing health benefits to human; however bitterness of the fruit limits its therapeutic effects. Fermentation processes have been reported be able reduce gourd. In this study, effects fermentation factors including time (0, 12, 24, 36, 48, 60 and 72h), temperature (20, 25, 30, 35 40℃) inoculum volume (v/w) 1, 5, 10, 15 20%) Lactobacillus plantarum on pH, total soluble soli...

Upgrading of atmospheric CO2 into high-value-added acetate using renewable electricity via electrocatalysis solely remains a great challenge. Here, inspired by microbial synthesis biocatalysts, we present coupled system to produce from bridging inorganic with through formate intermediates. A 3D Bi2O3@CF integrated electrode an ice-sugar gourd shape was fabricated straightforward hydrothermal st...

Abstract Background The preferred choice for molecular marker development is identifying existing variation in populations through DNA sequencing. With the genome resources currently available bitter gourd ( Momordica charantia ), it now possible to detect genome-wide insertion-deletion (InDel) polymorphisms among populations, which guides efficient of InDel markers. Results Here, using bioinfo...

Cucurbits comprise the highly diverse family known as Cucurbitaceae that includes cultivated, feral, and wild species (Robinson and Decker-Walters, 1997). Many of the cultivated species such as squash (Cucurbita ssp.), watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. & Nakai], cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.), and melon (Cucumis melo L.) are familiar to U.S. and world markets. Others such as bitter ...

The experiment was carried out on Genetic variability and character association in eight genotypes of Ridge Gourd with three replications during summer season 2021-22 at the Research Field Department Horticulture, Sam Higginbottom University Agriculture, Technology Sciences, Prayagraj, India. observations were recorded various yield contributing characters ridge gourd. results from present inve...

The lectin from the seeds of snake gourd (Trichosanthes anguina) has been crystallized in two forms using the hanging-drop method. Both the forms are hexagonal, with the asymmetric unit containing one subunit consisting of two polypeptide chains linked through disulfide bridges. Intensity data from one of the forms were collected at room temperature as well as at low temperature to 3 A resoluti...

In current years composites have concerned considerable importance as a potential operational material. Low cost, light weights, high specific modulus, renewability, and biodegradability are the most basic & common attractive features of composites that make them useful for industrial applications. Luffacylindrical locally called as “sponge-gourd” is one such natural resource whose potential as...