HIGHLIGHTS Three species of Cucurbitaceae family are evaluated against the salt stress. Higher levels salinity have more adverse effects on growth cucurbits. The varieties bottle gourd performed well

It emerged recently that there is an inter-relationship between drought and Ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation in plant responses, in that both stresses provoke an oxidative burst. The objective of the present investigation was to study the effect of drought stress, UV-B radiation and the combined effects of UV-B and drought stresses on two cultivars of gourd seedling. The gourd plants were grown w...

Microbial shelf life quality assessment of a sensory evaluated ready-to-serve Momordica charantia L. (Bitter Gourd) drinkP E Chern, N A Mahyudin, H Ghazali, K Mahmud Ab Rashid

An experiment entitled "Effect of plant growth regulators on growth, yield and fruit quality Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) cv. MGH-4" was conducted at Horticulture Research Field, Department Horticulture, Naini Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom University Agriculture, Technology Sciences, Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh) during 2019. Plant Growth are regarded as one the most important trea...

The plant A small, spreading tree with pendulous racemes of dull liver coloured flowers and a long stalked large gourd-like fruit. It is widely grown in the tropics and is introduced in India. The species exhibits a range of features. Earlier several species were thought to exist but now only one is recognized with the name Kigelia africana. The fresh fruit cannot be eaten because it causes bli...

The methanol extract of wax gourd, the fruits of Benincasa hispida cogn.(Cucurbitaceae) was found to show no inhibition against three gram positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, and Bacillus subtilis and three gram negative bacteria Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumonia by cup-plate method whereas antifungal studies showed significant in...

BLACK Luffa sponge, derived from dried fruits of Luffa aegyptiaca Mill. (Sponge gourd, Hindi – Ghiya tori), could be a suitable matrix for tissue culture in aseptic liquid culture media. To test this, the response of aroid Philodendron ‘Xanadu’ Hort., an exquisite indoor-ornamental with its beautiful leaves and tangled aerial roots, was studied in vitro by Gangopadhyay and others. A study on in...