the effect of grafting on yield and some other quantitative and qualitative characteristics of two green¬house cucumber cultivars, namely roberto and danito grafted on five rootstocks of shintoza, kiroshintoza (cucurbita maxima × c. moschata), cucurbita maxima (c. maxima cv. goriki), fig leaf gourd (c. ficifolia cv. korodome), and bottle gourd (lagenaria siceraria) was investigated in this stud...

A system for plant regeneration from individual cells or explants is essential for the application of genetic engineering. In Cucurbitaceae, in vitro regeneration has been reported across a wide spectrum of crops, including summer squash (Cucurbita pepo L.) (7), winter squash (Cucurbita maxima Duch.) (9), bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria Standl.) (6) and, recently, figleaf gourd (Cuburbita fic...

Interspecific hybridization is an important method to widen variations and to develop novel cultivars. Interspecific cross-pollination was carried out among three species of Cucurbita (C. moschata, C. ficifolia and C. martinezii) as male parents with ten cultivars of C. pepo as female parents. Only four cultivars of C. pepo (Eskandarani cv., Queen F , Jedida F and MHTC77 F ) were successful in ...

This study was carried at the experimental farm of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bottle gourd cv. High-green (hybrid) was grown to investigate the morpho-physiological changes and yield performance under four different levels of light (100, 75, 50 and 25% PAR). It was observed that some of the morphological characters like main stem length, internode length and indiv...

Geminivirus, which causes yellow leaf curl disease of wax gourd plants, was detected using polymerase chain reaction with geminivirus-specific primers. The complete genomic sequence of a geminivirus isolated from wax gourd was determined by sequencing overlapping DNA fragments. The genome consisted of 2739 nucleotides, contained 5 open reading frames (ORFs) typical of geminiviruses, 2 ORFs on t...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is an important global public health problem. Despite the availability of drug therapy, patients have continued using plants with anti-diabetic properties as alternative treatments for diabetes. Cucurbita ficifolia Bouché (C. ficifolia) is a plant cultivated in Mexico for its edible fruit that is medicinally used to control type 2 DM (T2D). The hypoglycemic effect of C. f...

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...

This study describes morphological diversity and relationship of 14 cultivars and 133 wild fig accessions from central Zagros Mountains located in the west of Iran, based on 58 morphological characters. Among all characters, secondary drooping branches, number of bark tubers, shape of central lobe, length of central lobe/length of lamina, little lateral lobes, shape of leaf without lobed, fruit...

Few studies have investigated the alkali-based salt resistance aspect of plants. Here, we used 2 pumpkin cultivars (‘Cucurbita ficifolia Bouch.’ and ‘Chuandilong’) to study the growth and physiological response mechanisms of pumpkin to different levels of NaHCO3 stress. After second true leaf development, pumpkin seedlings were treated with varying levels of NaHCO3 stress (0, 30, 60 and 90 mmol...

Flavonoids are a group of natural compounds in plants with versatile health benefits for humans. Grapes are a dietary source of flavonoids and the flavonoid components in grape berries can depend on the grape species and cultivar. In this experiment, proanthocyanidins, flavonols, and anthocyanins were analyzed in Vitis coignetiae and V. ficifolia var. ganebu, wild grapes native to Japan, and co...