Cucumis - Science topic

Although the genome sequence of cucumber is publicly available, only a limited number of functional markers are in store for developing gynoecious hybrids using Indian genotypes. This study reported novel SNPs and InDels in the exonic regions of genes involved in gynoecy using two parents and their hybrid with genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) by gene...

Poly herbal skin clarifying and UV protection cream is a herbal cream which was formulated for the purpose of moisturizing, hydrating, making skin supple, anti aging, anti wrinkle, depigmentation, anti oxidant, maintaining skin Ph, nourishing, UV protection and treatment of various skin diseases like hyperpigmentation, wrinkles, acne, skin aging, p...

Chemical composition of the essential oils obtained by hydrodistillation from various parts of Cucumis ficifolius, Cucumis dipsaceus and Cucumis prophetarum were determined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS) analysis. Compounds 3,7,11,15-tetramethyl-1-hexadecanol, neophytadiene, and isophytol from leaves, phytol and octacosane from the...

Poultry industry is rapidly booming in developing countries with increased demand for consumption. Reportedly, chicken meat is highly expected to be used as a major source of protein. With rising popularity and expansion comes greater risk to health and economic losses due to lethal diseases like New Castle disease. Such diseases not only make floc...

Chironomus riparius are sediment-dwelling invertebrates in freshwater ecosystems and are used as indicators of environmental pollution. Their habitat is threatened by high levels of contaminants such as microplastics and organic matter. A promising strategy for the eco-friendly degradation of pollutants is the use of bacteria and their enzymatic ac...

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. This study explores locations, timing, and contribution to reproductive isolation (RI) of pre- and post-zygotic IRBs in Cucumis. To do this, we assessed cr...

One of the significant reserves for further increasing the yield of berry crops is to protect them from pests and diseases. Among the latter, viral ones are especially dangerous. Therefore, methods of virus diagnostics and especially electron microscopy are of great importance, which makes it possible to see viral particles, determine their shape,...

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of salinity on some physiological and morphological traits of native Iranian and Afghan melon cultivars using a split-plot experiment with a randomized complete block design and three replications. Two salinity levels (2 and 8 dSm ⁻¹ NaCl) and 39 cultivars from Iran and Afghanistan were utilized....

Ethnopharmacological relevance: Malaria is still a known health threat, especially in parts of sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of the frequently mentioned issues with hospital admission and outpatient care in Ethiopia. Cucumis ficifolius A. Rich roots are historically used in Ethiopia to treat meningitis, inflammation, and malaria. However, the anti...

Cucumis callosus dry fruits are traditionally used as folk remedy to treat conditions like urethral irritations, urine stoppage or dribbling and other urinary ailments of man in north-west India. But no study is reported to validate this ethnic practice of using Cucumis fruit in urolithiasis. To evaluate anti-urolithiatic potential of Cucumis, hype...

Objectives: Vegetables have been reported to be a mechanical means of transmission of human intestinal parasites. This study is aimed to ascertain the association between parasites and vegetables sold in Ethiope East, Delta State, Nigeria. Methods: Two hundred and seventy (270) vegetables were subjected to sedimentation and zinc sulphate floatation...

Water and soil salinity is one of the reasons for the reduction of cucumber yield. In order to verify the feasibility of using two non-commercial rootstocks to increase salinity resistance in cucumber and compare it with the commercial rootstock of Cobalt RZ F1, an experiment was conducted in the research farm of agricultural faculty of Arak Univer...

The current neotype for the name Cucumis acutangulus L. is incorrect according to Art. 9.13 of the ICN, as original material is extant. The name is lectotypified using a specimen from the Linnean herbarium at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. A second-step lectotypification is proposed for the name Cucurbita umbellata J.G. Klein ex...

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 neuropharmacological effects of three different varaities of Cucurbitaceae seeds including Cucu...

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) fruits, which are eaten at an immature stage of development, can vary extensively in morphological features such as size, shape, waxiness, spines, warts, and flesh thickness. Different types of cucumbers that vary in these morphological traits are preferred throughout the world. Numerous studies in recent years have ad...

Abstract Background Cucumis melon is a medicinal plant with multiple pharmacological properties such as anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and diuretic effects. An increasing body of scientific evidence established the anti-diabetic/anti-obesity effects of Cucumis melo in humans, mice, and hamster models. However, there are no tangible reports on its...

Fruit flies are widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. They are of quarantine importance. They may be monophagous, oligophagous or polyphagous. The cucumber fruit fly Bactrocera(Zeugodacus) cucumis (French) is an oligophagous species which primarily breeds in plant species within the family Cucurbitaceae. I...

This research examined the histological micro-structure of tendril vasculature in cucurbitaceous taxa. In this research, the tendril anatomy of 17 taxa of Cucurbitaceae categorized into seven genera, including Cucumis (five species), Cucurbita and Luffa (three species each), Citrullus and Momordica (two species each) while Lagenaria and Praecitrull...

An experiment with different contributing charactersof 26 genotypes of muskmelon (Cucumis meloL.) was performed in a randomized block design with three replications during the Zaid season (Feb-May) of 2019, at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in order to understand the genetics of yield formation characteristics with yield enhancement potentials....

The paper provides the first data on diversity of basidiomycetes of the Koygorodskiy National Park. The park was created in 2019 in the south-west of the Komi Republic (Koigorodsky and Priluzsky districts) with the aim of preserving intact forest massif developing in a natural dynamic mode. 267 species and intraspecific taxa of fungi have been iden...

Background Traditional medicines have been widely used in treating many microbial, inflammatory and other types of diseases states in Eritrea, where complimentary remedies are required to the modern health care system. Methodology The current research project focusses on three Eritrean medicinal plants; Commiphora africana, Cucumis pustulatus and V...

Cucurbitacins, structurally different triterpenes mainly found in the members of Cucurbitaceae, possess a vast pharmacological potential. Genus Cucurbita, Cucumis, and Citrullus are affluent in these bioactive compounds, and, amongst them, Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad. is widely exploited in folk medicine, since a huge number of diseases are s...

The popularity of organically grown foods has grown rapidly around the globe. As organically foods have 20% lesser yield and they typically cost premium range (10–40% more) than conventionally grown foods, proper postharvest domestic storage of organically grown vegetable is important. Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is a widely consumed vegetable am...

Weed management and control are essential for successful crop production. In recent years, there has been increased interest in the use of sustainable biological approaches for weed control due to their potential environmental and economic benefits. In this study, the enzyme-induced carbonate precipitation (EICP) approach was adopted to form a soil...

Powdery mildew, caused by Sphaerotheca fuliginea (Schlecht.) Poll., and melon aphids ( Aphis gossypii Glover) are a typical disease and insect pest, respectively, that affect cucumber production. Powdery mildew and melon aphid often occur together in greenhouse production, resulting in a reduction in cucumber yield. At present there are no reports...

Masungsong LA, Alcala AA, Buot IE Jr., Belarmino MM. 2022. Classifying fifty-seven Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) accessions into six species using leaf architectural traits. Biodiversitas 23: 4006-4017. In gene banks, there are myriads of accessions that need to be studied, grouped, classified and organized to the proper taxon and hence, be able to manag...

Early disease detection in greenhouses is an important part of integrated disease management in modern agriculture. A real-time object detection method of melon leaf disease, Pruned-YOLO v5s+Shuffle (PYSS) is proposed in this research. First, for enhancing the feature extraction capability, the backbone of the YOLO v5s is reconstructed with Shuffle...

Melothria pendula L.: Apodanthera gracilis Benth.; Bryonia convolvulifolia Schltdl; Bryonia filiformis Roxb.; Bryonia guadalupensis Spreng.; Cucumis glaber Walter; Melothria crassifolia Small; Melothria costensis C. Jeffrey; Melothria donnell-smithii Cogn; Melothria donnell-smithii var. hirtella Cogn; Melothria donnell-smithii var. rotundifolia Cog...

A natural convection solar tunnel dryer of capacity 100 kg was used to analyse the drying kinetics of naturally grown arid vegetable kachri (Cucumis callosus). The moisture reduction was found from 86.10 % to 7.02 % (on wet basis) in two solar days (15 hours). Solar drying curves were estimated using six different drying kinetic models and were com...

Cucumis debilis W.J.de Wilde & Duyfjes is an annual and monoecious plant. This species is endemic to Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam. However, C. debilis is rarely studied, and no detailed information is available regarding its basic chromosome number, 45S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) status, and divergence among other Cucumis species. In this study,...

A pot experiment was set up to investigate the effects of spent engine oil (SEO) soil on plant growth parameters of Cucumis sativus. This was laid out in a randomized complete block design with three replications. Soils were contaminated with different levels of spent engine oil (0ml = control, 20ml, 50ml and 100ml) while growth parameters (leaves...

The abuse of artificial food dyes and the evidence that they harm human health recently prompted a significant effort to introduce vegan substitutes prepared from fruits and vegetables. Not much information, however, has been collected on their possible effects on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems once released as waste in surface waters. For this...

Minimnya pengetahuan para petani membuat kurangnya ketertarikan petani dalam bercocok tanam Timun Apel manjadikan rendahnya produksi tanaman Timun Apel. Padahal prospek penjualan Timun Apel bisa berpeluang besar dalam dunia perbisnisan hortikultur buah. Pupuk KCl diperlukan oleh tanaman untuk memenuhi kebutuhan unsur hara Kalium (K). Penjarangan pa...

The lack of agronomic information is one of the various reasons given for the failure of indigenous vegetables to move from subsistence plants of restricted use to vegetables that are considerably researched, utilized, available, and commercially aggressive. A greenhouse study was conducted at Midlands State University’s Department of Horticulture...

Background: Fruit rinds/peels form major part of food waste, yet they possess nutrients and biologically-active constituents which have been found useful in nutrition and therapy. Nevertheless, the safety of their usage is a drawback and therefore requires a complete evaluation of their safety profile. This study evaluated the biochemical, hematolo...

The gherkin (Cucumis anguria L.) is a species of African origin, belonging to the family of cucurbits, widely cultivated in Brazil, but with little information on the genetic control of the characteristics. Additive gene effects, reflected in estimates of variety or performance effects “per se,” are important in the expression of traits in maxixe g...

For developing the recycling of fruit by-products from kiwano, a polysaccharide was extracted from kiwano (Cucumis metuliferus) peels, namely Cucumis metuliferus peels polysaccharide (CMPP), with the aim of investigating the potential beneficial effects. The composition of polysaccharides was analyzed by chemical methods. RAW264.7 macrophages cells...

Cucumber (Cucumis sativum) is a warm season vegetable grown throughout the world under tropical and subtropical condition in open fields. The climatic suitability of crops is also favorable for many diseases. Among them disease complex situation causes severe loss. The simultaneous penetration of nematode and fungus exhibited a synergistic effect o...

In flowering plants, male and female functions are usually closely associated in the same flowers, as predicted by resource allocation theory. However, the benefits of outbreeding can lead to unisexual flowers and the physiological control of their distribution across the plant (monoecy). Monoecy is thought to be a major route to dioecy (separation...

Cucurbits are consumable crops, belonging to the family of Cucurbitaceae. They are widely distributed in the regions of tropical and sub-tropical region. These tendril climbers are grown in village surrounding. The plant has been grown from olden days for its medicinal value. It is used as herbal drug for cough and cold. All parts of plant such as...

Two Gram-staining positive strains, FJAT-49825T and FJAT-50051T were isolated from a citrus rhizosphere soil sample. Strains FJAT-49825T and FJAT-50051T showed the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with the type strain of Neobacillus cucumis (98.4–98.5%). The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between strains FJAT-49825T and FJAT-50051T was...

Concept of home garden is very common in the hilly area of north eastern part of India and play a crucial role in livelihood, economy and biological diversity conservation. The present study aims to study of the home garden in three different altitudinal ranges in Mon district of Nagaland with the prime objective about the socioeconomic status of e...

Artificial neural intelligence was established for the estimation, prediction, and optimization of many agricultural and food processes to enable enhanced and balanced utilization of fresh and processed fruits. The predictive capabilities of artificial neural networks (ANNs) are evaluated to estimate the phytochemical composition and the antioxidan...

Background: Kiwano, commonly called horned melon is a common fruit consumed in the tropics for its nutritional and therapeutic value. This study evaluated the composition of some bioactive compounds in the rind of the fruit as well as its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects using in vitro methods. Methods: The rind of the fruits of kiwano wer...

Background: Kiwano, commonly called horned melon is a common fruit consumed in the tropics for its nutritional and therapeutic value. This study evaluated the composition of some bioactive compounds in the rind of the fruit as well as its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects using in vitro methods. Methods: The rind of the fruits of kiwano wer...

O maxixe Cucumis anguria L. é originário do continente africano, cultivado em áreas concentradas nas regiões de clima tropicais e subtropicais, principalmente no Brasil e Caribe. O maxixe é uma hortaliça que produz melhor em solos ricos em matéria orgânica, arenosos, leves e soltos. O objetivo do trabalho foi avaliar a germinação e o crescimento in...

is study was conducted on medicinal plants used for the treatment of human and livestock ailments in Basona Werana District, North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, field walk observation , preference, and direct matrix ranking with randomly and purposefully selected informants. A total of 80 respond...

Salinity is one of the major abiotic stress factors that threaten crop development and sustainable food production. As a mitigation strategy, several plant growth regulators and osmoprotectants have been applied to ameliorate the negative effects of salinity stress in plants. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the effect of foliar ap...

Cucumis metuliferus commonly called Kiwano is a well-known plant in the middle belt area of Nigeria. It is consumed for nutritional and medicinal purposes. This study evaluated the bioactive compound content, In-vitro antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of ethanol extract of the seed of Cucumis metuliferus fruit. The antioxidant properties...

Infectious diseases are the major problems of the world as a result of the emerging and reemerging of different antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms due to several reasons like missiles and repeating uses of antibiotics. As a result, searching for new treatment methods is essential from natural substances to against those infectious diseases in b...

Despite the high consumption of Japanese gherkin in the Northeast of Brazil, very few studies with this vegetable are found in the literature. As it is consumed raw or after cooking, being mainly consumed cooked, there was the interest to know if cooking could influence bioactive compounds content and antioxidant activity since high temperatures ar...

Cucumis dipsaceus is used to treat diarrhoea, microbial infections, among other diseases across the world; however, there is insufficient empirical data to validate its efficacy, toxicity, and safety. Accordingly, we investigated the antidiarrheal, antimicrobial, and toxic effects of the aqueous and methanolic leaf and fruit extracts of C. dipsaceu...

Plant metabolites are known as biological compounds that are essential to the growth and development of a plant and have a direct impact on yield and biochemical constituents of plants. For this study, the objective was to conduct primary metabolomics analysis using liquid chromatography mass spectrometry. African horned cucumber fruits were harves...

Benincasa hispida (wax gourd) is an important Cucurbitaceae crop, with enormous economic and medicinal importance. Here, we report the de novo assembly and annotation of the complete chloroplast genome of wax gourd with 156,758 bp in total. The quadripartite structure of the chloroplast genome comprises a large single-copy (LSC) region with 86,538...

Green Manure, Herbicide, Weed control efficiency, Direct seeded rice An experiment was conducted to investigate the weed dynamics on direct seeded rice at the Research Farm, Chatha of SKUAST-J, during the Kharif season of 2019. To check the effect of the green manuring and herbicide on weed dynamics on rice, three green manuring crops viz. Sunnhemp...

Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp., RKN) cause a significant decrease in the yield of cucumber crops every year. Cucumis metuliferus is an important wild germplasm that confers resistance to RKN, where plant roots volatiles are thought to play a role. Nevertheless, the underlying molecular mechanism is unclear. To investigate it, we used the res...

Hairy root induction system has been applied in various plant species as an effective method to study gene expression and function due to its fast-growing and high genetic stability. Recently, these systems have shown to be an effective tool to evaluate activities of CRISPR/Cas9 systems for genome editing. In this study, Rhizobium rhizogenes mediat...

A novel aerobic, yellow, and rod-shaped bacterial isolate, designated as 1Y8AT, was isolated from aquaculture water sampled in Jiangmen, Guangdong province, P. R. China. Here, the taxonomic position of strain 1Y8AT was conducted based on phenotypic, genomic, and chemotaxonomic characteristics. Strain 1Y8AT was observed to grow at 10–37 °C (optimum...

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 his palace, the Villa Jovis on the Isle of Capri. Pliny stated in Historia Naturalis (Book 19...

The purpose of the study is to find the best Benzil Amino Purine (BAP) concentrations and proper explants for the growth of the apple cucumber callus (Cucumis sp.) on Murashige and Skoog (MS) media. The research method used was an experimental method with nonparametric statistics with treatments A0B1 (BAP 0 + Leaves), A0B2 (BAP 0 + Stem), A1B1 (BAP...

“Heavy Metals Removal from Industrial Wastewater by Nano Adsorbent Prepared from Cucumis Melopeel Activated Carbon,

The French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) conserves and distributes five vegetable collections as seeds: the aubergine* (in this article the word aubergine refers to eggplant), pepper, tomato, melon and lettuce collections, together with their wild or cultivated relatives, are conserved in Avignon, Fra...

Cucumis sativam (L.) is creeping vine grown as an off-season vegetable crop under protected poly houses. During survey of major cucumber growing districts of Rajasthan, a new disease "Choanephora fruit rot of cucumber" was first time observed and recorded during in 2019-2020. The survey provided baseline information on the distribution, occurrence...

The plant symbiotic fungi, Arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM), increases host competency and causes partial control of Egyptian broomrape Phelipanche aegyptiaca (Orobanchaceae). In this study, a greenhouse experiment was designed to investigate the AM efficacy on the morphological and physiological traits in the association of cucumber and P. aegyptiaca....

In 2014, cucumber green mottle mosaic virus (CGMMV) was detected for the first time in Australia infecting watermelon crops in the Northern Territory (NT). In July 2016, a leaf sample was collected from a cucumber plant with leaf mottle and distortion symptoms growing in a commercial plastic tunnel house at Geraldton, Western Australia (WA). Testin...