The cucurbit vegetables, including cucumbers, melons and pumpkins, have been cultivated for thousands of years without fungicides. However, their seed germination stage is prone to be infected by soil-borne fungal and oomycete pathogens. Endophytes are symbionts that reside inside plant tissues including seeds. Seed endophytes are founders of the juvenile plant microbiome and can promote host d...

Relevance. The main direction of breeding melon Bikovskaya cucurbits experimental station – branch the FSBSI FSVC is creation varieties with valuable economic characteristics, especially resistance to bioand abiotic environmental factors. To meet needs commodity producers and population, are needed not only high yields, but also attractive appearance, good taste qualities. Very important: rich ...

Northeast India is rich in genetic diversity of horticultural crops and colocasia one the important crops. This region for both cultivated wild species particularly jhum fields, homestead gardens, near water bodies, river banks, forests road sides. Wide range variability observed vegetative characters, corm cormel yield quality characters.  It field as a mixed crop along with paddy other l...