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Twenty years of cucurbit breeding research at the World Vegetable Center

Crop Science, Volume 65, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
Abstract The contribution of cucurbit crops to global food and nutrition security is immense. They are economically and nutritionally important to smallholder farmers in Asia, who account for 81% of global cucurbit production. World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) has been focused for 20 years on four species: bitter gourd (Momordica charantia), ridge ...
Narinder Pal Singh Dhillon
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Thermal and Thermosonication Blanching of Sugarcane Billets: Enzyme Kinetics and Quality Assessment

Food Bioengineering, Volume 4, Issue 3, Page 292-304, September 2025.
Thermosonication blanching (SB) effectively inactivated polyphenol (PPO) enzyme activity in sugarcane billets compared to conventional thermal blanching. The PPO inactivation kinetics followed the weibull model for both the blanching treatments, with SB showing a pronounced reduction in D‐ and z‐values, indicating greater sensitivity for enzyme ...
Saachi Chaurasia, Vivek Kumar
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Comprehensive Assessment of Morphological Diversity in Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) Accessions: A Focus on Roots and Morpho-Agronomic Traits

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Phenotypic characterization of the variability present within bottle gourd has been limited to morpho-agronomic traits, and this evaluation is a prerequisite for a bottle gourd breeding program.
Sebastián Flores-Chacón, Gonzalo Carreño, Carlos Maldonado, Rodrigo Contreras-Soto   +3 more
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Seed Characterization and Relationships between Seed and Cotyledon Properties in Lagenaria spp. Accessions

HortScience, 2020
Bottle gourd [Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.] is widely produced in some Asian and African countries as a fresh vegetable as well as for seed consumption. A major use of bottle gourd is for rootstocks in grafted watermelon production.
Nebahat Sari, Emily Silverman, Danny Reiland, Todd C. Wehner   +3 more
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Income Diversity and the Food Security Nexus: Tea Garden Workers in Maulvibazar District, Bangladesh

Food and Energy Security, Volume 14, Issue 5, September/October 2025.
ABSTRACT Ensuring household food security is a growing concern in developing countries. Tea workers in Bangladesh are one of the vulnerable groups that lack access to basic needs and suffer from food insecurity. This study examines the impact of income diversity on the food security of tea workers' households in Bangladesh.
Akhi Das Gupta, Jiban Krishna Saha, Md. Rashid Ahmed   +2 more
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Development of Insertion and Deletion Markers for Bottle Gourd Based on Restriction Site-associated DNA Sequencing Data

Horticultural Plant Journal, 2017
Bottle gourd is an important cucurbit crop worldwide. To provide more available molecular markers for this crop, a bioinformatic approach was employed to develop insertion–deletions (InDels) markers in bottle gourd based on restriction site-associated ...
Xinyi WU, Pei XU, Xiaohua WU, Baogen WANG, Zhongfu LU, Guojing LI   +5 more
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Genome-wide identification of new reference genes for RT-qPCR normalization in CGMMV-infected Lagenaria siceraria [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
Lagenaria siceraria is an economically important cucurbitaceous crop, but suitable reference genes (RGs) to use when the plants are infected by cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV) have not been determined.
Chenhua Zhang, Hongying Zheng, Xinyang Wu, Heng Xu, Kelei Han, Jiejun Peng, Yuwen Lu, Lin Lin, Pei Xu, Xiaohua Wu, Guojing Li, Jianping Chen, Fei Yan   +12 more
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The KNOX transcription factor ClSP activates ClAPRR2 to regulate dark green stripe formation in watermelon

Plant Biotechnology Journal, Volume 23, Issue 8, Page 3012-3023, August 2025.
Summary As a prominent external feature of watermelon, the stripe pattern exhibits remarkable phenotypic diversity, directly impacting commercial value through consumer preference. However, the genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying this important agronomic trait in watermelon remain poorly understood.
Zhen Yue, Yanan Fu, Xue Dai, Yingda Chen, Chenxi Guo, Ruiqing Zhang, Xin Huang, Mengjiao Feng, Xing Yan, Zhongyuan Wang, Rong Yu, Shi Liu, Hao Li, Xian Zhang, Li Yuan, Chunhua Wei   +15 more
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Effect of Marination on the Formation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Grilled Vegetables

Food Science &Nutrition, Volume 13, Issue 7, July 2025.
The effect of marination on the formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in charcoal‐grilled vegetables was studied. A substantial decrease in PAH4 formation was observed in marinated vegetables. These findings offer valuable insights for reducing PAH levels in grilled vegetables and preventing their formation.
Sibel Kacmaz Ozcetin, Levent Artok
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‘Quiet’ green community innovations at the interface of public and private ownership in an old neighbourhood in Zhengzhou, China

Geo: Geography and Environment, Volume 12, Issue 2, July‐December 2025.
Short Abstract This paper investigates informal urban gardening practices within a 70‐year‐old neighbourhood in Zhengzhou, China, with a particular focus on the concept of ‘annexed common space for private green infrastructure’ (ACS‐PGI). The study uncovers the rich diversity of informal gardening activities at Factory 3 and explores the intricate ...
Yanhui Shi, Terry R. Slater, A. Rob MacKenzie, Yueming Shi   +3 more
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