We present the case of a young woman who presented to us with multiple episodes of vomiting, followed by hematemesis and abdominal pain after consuming bottle gourd juice. The patient was resuscitated and stabilized with fluids, proton pump inhibitors and antiemetics and discharged in stable condition. As a member of the Cucurbitaceae family, bottle gourd contains toxic tetracyclic triterpenoid...

Grafting watermelon onto bottle gourd rootstock is commonly used method to generate resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum (FON), but knowledge of the effect of the root exudates of grafted watermelon on this soil-borne pathogen in rhizosphere remains limited. To investigate the root exudate profiles of the own-root bottle gourd, grafted-root watermelon and own-root watermelon, recircul...

Effect of rootstock on yield and quality cucumber scion was studied at Department Vegetable Science, College Agriculture, Vellayani, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala during February-May, 2021. Parthenocarpic non-parthenocarpic scions were grafted onto five different cultivated cucurbit species i.e. pumpkin, bottle gourd, oriental pickling melon, culinary melon ash gourd. Significant variations observ...

The experiment was conducted to investigate the effect of natural fermentation on physiochemical and sensory properties of bitter gourd slices. Initially three varieties of bitter gourd Thinnaveli white [V1], Mathale green [V2] and Thumba karavila [V3] were taken. Preliminary investigation was carried out to select the best variety. Sensory analysis was conducted using 30 untrained panelists an...

Aims: To evaluate the nematicidal potential of wild spinach powder in combination with fresh chopped leaves of different plants viz., Indian mallow, Mexican poppy, Ivy gourd, Trailing eclipta, Wild eggplant and Black pigweed against Meloidogyne incognita on plant growth characters of tomato cv. K-21. Place and Duration of Study: A glasshouse pot experiment was carried out in the Department of B...

The present experiment was conducted with 16 germplasms and two varieties of snake gourd. yield contributing traits such as node order first male flower, female days to flowering, internodal length, harvest, single fruit weight, girth, number fruits per plant, were studied assess the genetic variability, heritability advance besides correlation path coefficient analysis. study GCV PCV in gourd ...

Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) is a common vegetable grown widely in Asia that is used as a traditional medicine. The objective of this study was to investigate whether wild bitter gourd possessed protective effects against chronic alcohol-induced liver injury in mice. C57BL/6 mice were fed an alcohol-containing liquid diet for 4 weeks to induce alcoholic fatty liver. Meanwhile, mice wer...

The phytohormone auxin regulates various developmental programs in plants, including cell growth, cell division and cell differentiation. The auxin efflux carriers are essential for the auxin transport. To show an involvement of auxin transporters in the coordination of fruit development in bitter gourd, a juicy fruit, we isolated novel cDNAs (referred as McPIN) encoding putative auxin efflux c...

Patients were randomized to receive either bitter gourd tablets (26 subjects) or placebo (24 subjects). The bitter gourd tablets were made from shade dr ied powdered fresh whole fruit. The average sized fruit weights around 5 gm when dried. Each tablet contained 1 gm of dried fruit and each patient received 2 tablets thrice daily, after meals. Riboflavin was given as placebo, as placebo identic...

To determine the correlation between the working environment and the health status of employees in solar greenhouse, 1171 employees were surveyed. The results show the 'Greenhouse diseases' are affected by many factors. Among general uncomforts, the morbidity of the bone and joint damage is the highest and closely related to labor time and age. Planting summer squash and wax gourd more easily c...