Bitter gourd bounty – second of a series on our wonderful world of vegetables
Bitter gourd bounty – second of a series on our wonderful world of vegetables
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Better Bitter Gourd
Better Bitter Gourd
Growing new markets with better bitter gourd genetics: WorldVeg’s monoecious, gynoecious and predominantly […]
Why are there so many kinds of bitter gourd?
Green or cream-colored, warty or smooth, bitter or mild, long and thin or short and stubby: The diversity of bitter gourd, an important vegetable and medicinal plant, prompted researchers to explore the genome in search of answers about how domestication has—or has not—changed the crop over time.Â
Putting the best bitter gourd forward
The 5th edition of Bitter Gourd Open Field Days showcased elite breeding lines of a popular Asian cucurbit.
Bitter Gourd Open Field Days a big success
An impressive array of bitter gourd diversity is ready to expand the narrow genetic base of this valuable cucurbit crop in Asia. Â
Best bitter gourd on trial
Noble Seeds (India) organized Bitter Gourd Field Days from 25 November to 5 December 2017 in Bangalore. The event showcased 180 hybrids using WorldVeg lines in field trials along with commercial checks.
A day for cucurbits in Myanmar
After two years of testing cucurbit lines in Myanmar, the Department of Agriculture Research organized a Cucurbit Open Field Day on 7 September 2017 to showcase WorldVeg improved bitter gourd and pumpkin lines.
Seeing is believing in WorldVeg bitter gourd fields
The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) cucurbit team proudly displayed 400 bitter gourd breeding lines plus another 400 bitter gourd F1 hybrids and early stage products of recurrent selection during Bitter Gourd Open Field Days from 14-30 August 2017 at the World Vegetable Center East and Southeast Asia Research and Training Station, located on the campus of Kasetsart University in Kamphaeng Saen, Thailand.
Selecting the best bitter gourd
(left to right) Ajay Dayal (Product Development Manager of Rasi HyVeg Seed), M Anil (Rasi HyVeg Gourd Breeder) and WorldVeg Cucurbit Breeder Narinder Dhillon select F1 bitter gourd hybrids in the field.
Genome-wide analysis of simple sequence repeats in bitter gourd (Momordica charantia)
After the sequencing of the cucumber (Cucumis sativus), watermelon (Citrullus lanatus), and melon (Cucumis melo) genomes, bitter gourd became the fourth cucurbit species whose whole genome was sequenced. However, a comprehensive analysis of simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in bitter gourd, including a comparison with the three aforementioned cucurbit species, has not yet been published. We identified a total of 188,091 and 167,160 SSR motifs in the genomes of the bitter gourd lines ‘Dali-11’ and ‘OHB3-1,’ respectively. The SSR content, motif lengths, and classified motif types were characterized for the bitter gourd genomes and compared among all the cucurbit genomes.