Momordica charantia is often called bitter melon, bitter gourd or bitter squash because its fruit has a bitter taste. The fruit has been widely used as vegetable and herbal medicine. Alpha-eleostearic acid is the major fatty acid in the seeds, but little is known about its biosynthesis. As an initial step towards understanding the biochemical mechanism of fatty acid accumulation in bitter melon...

Andromonoecy is a widespread sexual system in angiosperms, characterized by plants carrying both male and bisexual flowers. Monoecy is characterized by the presence of both male and female flowers on the same plant. In cucumber, these sexual forms are controlled by the identity of the alleles at the M locus. In melon, we recently showed that the transition from monoecy to andromonoecy result fr...

is known as the bitter gourd or melon and a member of family Cucurbitaceae. It medicinal plant its fruit consumed food also. This grown in tropical well subtropical areas around world, mainly Asia, India, China, South America Brazil. Due to presence bioactive compounds like charantin, α-momorcharin cucurbitacins, some which possess potent biological actions, this used folk medicine all over wor...

noncommunicable diseases pose a real threat to and their incidence is forecast to increase in both developed and developing countries; and, diabetes, obesity, and related complications are predicted to pose a great burden on health care systems all across the world. however, current used conventional medications and surgical interventions fall short of effectively controlling the rampant spread...

The 2-C-methyl-d-erythritol-4-phosphate (MEP) pathway provides the precursors for the biosynthesis of plastidial isoprenoids, which include the carotenoid pigments of many fruits. We have analysed the genes encoding the seven enzymes of the MEP pathway in melon (Cucumis melo L.) and determined that the first one, 1-deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate synthase (DXS), and the last one, 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2...

Natural extracts, and particularly plant by-product can represent an eco-friendly alternative to synthetic pesticides control crop diseases. We produced extract from a mix of grapevine trunk roots that contain high amount complex stilbenes (grapevine phytoalexins), especially ?- r-viniferins. This conferred protection grapevines against Plasmopara viticola (the causal agent downy mildew) by dis...

Mathematical models based on dynamic growth process of greenhouse melon leaves were built. Two experiments, involving different years, organic fertilizer rates and cultivar types in melon, were carried out for data acquisition. In each experiment, time-course observations of leaf morphological properties (leaf length and leaf width) on different leaf positions of melon were obtained. The result...