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The genome of melon ( Cucumis melo L.) [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012
We report the genome sequence of melon, an important horticultural crop worldwide. We assembled 375 Mb of the double-haploid line DHL92, representing 83.3% of the estimated melon genome. We predicted 27,427 protein-coding genes, which we analyzed by reconstructing 22,218 phylogenetic trees, allowing mapping of the orthology and paralogy relationships ...
Garcia-Mas J, Benjak A, Sanseverino W, Bourgeois M, Mir G, González VM, Hénaff E, Câmara F, Cozzuto L, Lowy E, Alioto T, Capella-Gutiérrez S, Blanca J, Cañizares J, Ziarsolo P, Gonzalez-Ibeas D, Rodríguez-Moreno L, Droege M, Du L, Alvarez-Tejado M, Lorente-Galdos B, Melé M, Yang L, Weng Y, Navarro A, Marques-Bonet T, Aranda MA, Nuez F, Picó B, Gabaldón T, Roma G, Guigó R, Casacuberta JM, Arús P, Puigdomènech P.   +34 more
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Origin, distribution and systematics of culinary cucumber (Cucumis melo subsp. agrestis var. conomon)

Journal of Horticultural Sciences, 2017
The non-dessert or culinary forms of C. melo are a distinct group distributed and adapted well essentially under humid tropics of Southern India. Culinary cucumber or vegetable cucumber (Cucumis melo subsp. agrestis var.
K R M Swamy
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History of Controlled Environment Horticulture: Ancient Origins

HortScience, 2022
In the first century CE, two Roman agricultural writers, Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella and Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), referred to proto-greenhouses (specularia) constructed for the Emperor Tiberius (42 BCE–37 CE) presumably adjacent to
Jules Janick, Harry Paris
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Effect of Cucumis melo Seeds and Allopurinol on Litholytic and Renal Histological Profile in Male Rats

Proceedings, 2020
Introduction: Kidney stones are the 3rd major health problem affecting the urological system. Industrial chemical ethylene glycol can generate calcium oxalate crystals in kidneys.
Bushra Suhail, Ayela Eman Zia, Saadia Shahzad Alam   +2 more
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Inheritance of beta-carotene content in melon

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2022
The objective of this work was to determine the inheritance of beta-carotene content in melon (Cucumis melo). The AC-16 accession (Cucumis melo subsp. melo var.
Juliana Maria Costa da Silva, Elaine Renata de Castro Viana, Paulo Sérgio Fernandes das Chagas, Jeferson Luiz Dallabona Dombroski, Patrícia Lígia Dantas de Moraes, Francisco Linco de Souza Tomaz, Glauber Henrique de Sousa Nunes   +6 more
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Pre- and Post-Zygotic Barriers Contribute to Reproductive Isolation and Correlate with Genetic Distance in Cucumis

Plants, 2023
Hybridization between Cucumis species, including cultivated melon (C. melo), is hampered by Interspecific Reproductive Barriers (IRBs). However, the nature of IRBs in Cucumis is largely unknown.
María Ferriol, Unzué Simó, Carme J. Mansanet, Alejandro Torres, Belén Picó, Antonio J. Monforte, Carlos Romero   +6 more
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Neuropharmacological evaluation of different species of Curcubitaceae seeds extract in experimental animals

Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2023
Major depressive disorders such as anxiety and depression is predominantly developed in the modern era due to stressful lifestyle and now become the second leading cause of disability. The purpose of the current investigation to evaluate and compared the
Hafiza Tuseef Sayyar, Syeda Afroz, Ayesha Khan   +2 more
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Antioxidant Herbs Supplementation Inhibits Endometriosis Extension in Mice

Journal of Biomedicine and Translational Research, 2019
Background: Increased oxidative stress causes inflammation and increases angiogenesis. It presumed to promote the proliferation of endometriosis tissue. Kebar grass (Biophytum petersianum) and other herbs such as green tea and Cucumis melo, which contain
Yuli Trisetiyono, Widjiati Widjiati, Syarief Thaufik Hidayat, Noor Pramono   +3 more
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An Evaluation of the Antioxidant Activity of a Methanolic Extract of Cucumis melo L. Fruit (F1 Hybrid)

Separations, 2021
Cucumis melo L. (C. melo) is a fruit with many medicinal properties and is consumed in various countries. It is utilised for chronic eczema and to treat minor burns and scrapes.
R. S. Rajasree, Sibi P. Ittiyavirah, Punnoth Poonkuzhi Naseef, Mohamed Saheer Kuruniyan, G. S. Anisree, Muhammed Elayadeth-Meethal   +5 more
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Phylogenetics of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): Cucumber (C. sativus) belongs in an Asian/Australian clade far from melon (C. melo)

BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2007
Background Melon, Cucumis melo, and cucumber, C. sativus, are among the most widely cultivated crops worldwide. Cucumis, as traditionally conceived, is geographically centered in Africa, with C. sativus and C.
Schaefer Hanno, Renner Susanne S, Kocyan Alexander   +2 more
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