Bioactive Peptides From the <i>Cucurbitaceae</i> Family: From Identification and Health-Promoting Functions to Industrial Utilization. [PDF]
Food Sci NutrFrom fruit to function: Cucurbitaceae‐derived peptide production, bioactive potential screening and industrial applications. ABSTRACT Cucurbitaceae is a major plant family within the kingdom Plantae, encompassing popular food crops such as zucchini, squash, pumpkins, and melons.
Kekiri Obada Gamage HR +5 more
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Biological and Abiotic Stress in Cucurbitaceae Crops
, 2023 The gourd family is one of the most important edible plant families in the world. However, the planting and cultivation of gourd crops are affected by both biological and abiotic stresses.
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Phylogenetics of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) [PDF]
, 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.
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Evolution and loss of long-fringed petals [PDF]
, 2012 Background: The Cucurbitaceae genus Trichosanthes comprises 90–100 species that occur from India to Japan and southeast to Australia and Fiji. Most species have large white or pale yellow petals with conspicuously fringed margins, the fringes sometimes ...
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Pseudoperonospora cubensis Causing Downy Mildew on Luffa aegyptiaca in Korea [PDF]
Research in Plant DiseaseIn November 2021, sponge gourd (Luffa aegyptiaca) plants with typical downy mildew symptom were observed in Korea. Based on morphological characteristics of sporangiophores and sporangia, combined with molecular phylogenetic analysis of the internal ...
Dong Jae Lee, Young-Joon Choi
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Hybridization, polyploidy, and evolutionary transitions between monoecy and dioecy in Bryonia (Cucurbitaceae) [PDF]
, 2008 Correns’s 1903 (Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft 21: 133 – 147) crosses between a monoecious and a dioecious species of Bryonia revealed the simple Mendelian inheritance of dioecy and provided the first instance of an XY sex determination ...
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Plant Protection Science, 2009 Two ectoparasite powdery mildew species Golovinomyces cichoracearum (Gc) and Podosphaera xanthii (Px) occurring on cucurbits differ, besides other characteristics, by specific ecologic requirements.
Aleš Lebeda +3 more
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The effects of different combinations and varying concentrations of growth regulators on the regeneration of selected Turkish cultivars of melon [PDF]
, 2013 Cucurbits are an economically important family of plants. The majority of the vegetable production in Turkey, for example, derives from the species beloning to the family Cucurbitaceae. Despite the importance of cucurbits among vegetable crops worldwide,
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Open Chemistry, 2019 Bryonia species have traditionally been used as a diuretic and laxative, to reduce edema and relieve joint pain. B. alba roots are used especially to treat rheumatic pain and applied to painful joints in Turkish folk medicine. B.
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A dated phylogeny and collection records reveal repeated biome shifts in the African genus Coccinia (Cucurbitaceae) [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Conservatism in climatic tolerance may limit geographic range expansion and should enhance the effects of habitat fragmentation on population subdivision.
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