To address the complex challenges faced by our planet such as rapidly changing climate
patterns, food and nutritional insecurities, and the escalating world population, the …

The vegetable Momordica charantia L., Cucurbitaceae, is known variously as bitter gourd,
balsam pear, bitter melon, bitter cucumber, and African cucumber (Heiser 1979). Although it …

Bitter gourd, bottle gourd, wax gourd, snake gourd, sponge gourd, and ridge gourd are
cultivated and marketed by smallholder farmers, and are important crops in home gardens …

The plant family Cucurbitaceae, also known as" cucurbits," consists of various squashes,
melons, gourds, cucumbers, and pumpkins. This handbook contains information on cultural …

Momordica charantia is a monoecious plant of the Cucurbitaceae family that has both male
and female unisexual flowers. Its unique gynoecious line, OHB61-5, is essential as a …

A high-density, high-resolution genetic map was constructed for bitter gourd (Momordica
charantia L.). A total of 2013 high quality SNP markers binned to 20 linkage groups (LG) …

Genetic mapping is a basic tool necessary for anchoring assembled scaffold sequences and
for identifying QTLs controlling important traits. Though bitter gourd (Momordica charantia) is …

Gynoecism has been used on a large scale in heterosis breeding of cucumber. Production
of hybrid seeds in bitter gourd is highly expensive because it is done mainly through hand …

Abstract Key message The Mcgy1 locus responsible for gynoecy was fine-mapped into a
296.94-kb region, in which four single-nucleotide variations and six genes adjacent to them …

Bitter gourd is an important vegetable crop grown throughout the tropics mainly because of
its high nutritional value. Sex expression and identification of gynoecious trait in …