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CYTA - Journal of Food, 2020 Pumpkin is a genus of plants belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family comprising several species, the most common of which are Cucurbita maxima, Cucurbita pepo, Cucurbita moschata.
Andrzej Sidor +2 more
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Scientia Pharmaceutica, 2022 In traditional medicine, Cucurbita pepo L. is used for the treatment of rheumatism, diabetes, inflammations, and wound injuries. This study was conducted to evaluate the phytochemical constituents, safety profile, wound healing, and anti-inflammatory ...
Emmanuel Iroha Akubugwo +6 more
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Characterization of the USDA Cucurbita pepo, C. moschata, and C. maxima germplasm collections
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 The Cucurbita genus is home to a number of economically and culturally important species. We present the analysis of genotype data generated through genotyping-by-sequencing of the USDA germplasm collections of Cucurbita pepo, C. moschata, and C. maxima.
Christopher O. Hernandez +8 more
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Metabolic engineering of cucurbitacins in Cucurbita pepo hairy roots. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2022 In this paper we show that metabolic engineering in Cucurbita pepo hairy roots can be used to both effectively increase and modify cucurbitacins. Cucurbitacins are highly-oxygenated triterpenoids originally described in the Cucurbitaceae family, but have
Almeida A +7 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Gene flow among crops and their wild relatives is an active study area in evolutionary biology and horticulture, because genetic exchange between them may impact their evolutionary trajectories and increase the genetic variation of the cultivated ...
Carmina Martínez-González +11 more
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Molecules, 2019 Plants and animals are sources of various bioactive compounds that exhibit a broad spectrum of health-promoting effects. Scientists continue studies on the chemical composition of many products in search of foods with high nutritional value. The pumpkin (
Anna Gramza-Michałowska +1 more
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Phytochemical screening, FTIR and GCMS analysis of Cucurbita pepo seeds cultivated in Kiambu county, Kenya. [PDF]
HeliyonBioactive compounds and other constituents of plants have been shown to vary by cultivation region, species, environmental conditions and method of extraction among others.
Mwangi JW, Kiragu D, Chaka B.
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Heliyon, 2020 Manganese, zinc, and iron are the most essential micronutrients required for plant growth and applied as foliar fertilizers. Herein, a simple template-free microwave-assisted hydrothermal green synthesis technique was adapted to produce manganese zinc ...
Amr A Hassan +2 more
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Tracing back the origin of pumpkins (Cucurbita pepo ssp. pepo L.) in Mexico
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019 Cucurbita pepo is an economically important crop, which consists of cultivated C. pepo ssp. pepo, and two wild taxa (C. pepo ssp. fraterna and C. pepo ssp. ovifera). We aimed at understanding the domestication and the diversity of C. pepo in Mexico.
Gabriela Castellanos-Morales +2 more
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Effect of Ultrasound Treatment on the Sterilization and Quality of Cucurbita pepo [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 The influence of ultrasonic technology on the sterilization effect and quality of Cucurbita pepo juice were studied in this paper. The sterilization rate under conditions of control 100W, 200W, 300W ultrasonic, color difference, total chlorophyll content,
Guanwen Suo +4 more
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