Pumpkin is a popular vegetable crop and exhibits broad diversity in fruit shape size. Fruit-related traits are the decisive factors determining consumer acceptance market value of pumpkin cultivar. As result, deciphering genetic basis fruit-related great importance for breeding. To address this problem, F2 population was generated by two Cucurbita moschata inbred lines with contrasting shapes, ...

Perakitan varietas tahan melalui kegiatan persilangan interspesifik antara Cucurbita maxima (squash) dengan moschata (pumpkin) merupakan upaya untuk mendapatkan squash Tomato Leaf Curl New Delhi Virus (ToLCNDV). Persilangan tersebut menghasilkan individu yang berkarakter dan juga gabungan pumpkin. Pengujian penanda SSR dilakukan guna mengetahui keberhasilan perilangan pada masing-masing tanaman...

The tomato pinworm damage, population build-up, the damage and longevity of native predatory bug, Nesidiocoris tenuis in sole crop diversified (pumpkin sunn hemp as border + a patch hedgerow) were studied. Infestation pinworm, Phthorimaea absoluta was found to be highest (5.60 live mines/plant at 20 DAP) compared (1.50 mines per plant). No significant difference number necrotic rings plant obse...

Three commercially available insecticide aerosol compositions containing cyphenothrin, imiprothrin, cypermethrin, d-tetramethrin and permethrin, in various combinations and concentrations were evaluated for control of the oriental eye flies Siphunculina funicola (de Meijere) from their aggregation substrates in two villages in the Chon Buri Province, Thailand. Each aerosol produced almost compl...

This descriptive study aimed to document cigarette retailers' knowledge and behaviors about the minimum legal age of cigarette buyers, and their estimates of the proportion of children and women among cigarette buyers. The study was conducted among 70 shop attendants in Hat Yai and Chon Buri cities. A semi-structured interview method was used to collect data using open-ended and close-ended que...

For reducing soil salinity and obtaining a sustainable yield, low-cost farmer-friendly method is required for pumpkin, well-liked vegetable. Accordingly, field experiment was carried out in Salinity Management Research Center, Soil Resource Development Institute, Batiaghata, Khulna during Kharif-1 season of 2021 to investigate the effect different types mulches on yield pumpkin. The includes th...

UNLABELLED A significant number of studies report growing resistance in nematodes thriving in both humans and livestock. This study was conducted to evaluate the in vitro and in vivo anthelmintic efficiency of Curcubita pepo (C. pepo) L. hot water extract (HWE), cold water extract (CWE) or ethanol extract (ETE) on two model nematodes: Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) and Heligmosoides bakeri...

Enhanced production of individual phenolic compounds by subcritical water hydrolysis (SWH) of pumpkin leaves was investigated at various temperatures ranging from 100 to 220°C at 20 min and at various reaction times ranging from 10 to 50 min at 160°C. Caffeic acid, p-coumaric acid, ferulic acid, and gentisic acid were the major phenolic compounds in the hydrolysate of pumpkin leaves. All phenol...

in order to evaluation the effect of zeolite application and selenium spraying on water relations traits and antioxidant enzymes in medicinal pumpkin (cucurbita pepo l.) at water deficit stress conditions, an experiment was conducted in factorial based on randomized complete block design with three replications during 2010 in takestan, iran. the three levels of irrigation factor include normal ...