Gourds: Bitter, Bottle, Wax, Snake, Sponge and Ridge

Dhillon, N.S.; Sanguansil, Supannika; Singh, Sheo Pujan; Masud, Mohammed Abu Taher; Kumar, Prashant; Bharathi, L. K.; Yetışır, Halit; Huang, Rukui; Canh, Doan Xuan; McCreight, James D.

doi:10.1007/7397_2016_24

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“…Bottle gourd hybrids such as FR-Ganggeon and FR-Sinsegye developed from crosses between FRD 22 × 963381 and FRD 2010 × 963385-2 show high levels of resistance to Fusarium wilt (Huh et al, 2012). Further, some hybrids developed in India display high levels of resistance against Fusarium wilt (Dhillon et al, 2016). To develop superior bottle gourd rootstock for watermelon production, the rooting characteristics of the cultivated accessions requires rigorous evaluations.…”

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Progress on Genetic Improvement and Analysis of Bottle Gourd [Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.] for Agronomic Traits, Nutrient Compositions, and Stress Tolerance: A Review

Mkhize

Mashilo

Shimelis

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Bottle gourd [Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.] is an important multi-purpose cucurbit crop grown for its leaf, fruit, and seed. It is widely cultivated and used for human consumption in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) providing vital human nutrition and serving as food security crop. There is wide genetic variation among bottle gourd genetic resources in Africa for diverse qualitative and quantitative attributes for effective variety design, product development, and marketing. However, the crop is under- researched and -utilized, and improved varieties are yet to be developed and commercialized in the region. Therefore, the objective of this review is to provide the progress on bottle gourd genetic improvement and genetic analysis targeting agronomic and horticultural attributes, nutritional composition, biotic, and abiotic stress tolerance to guide current and future cultivar development, germplasm access, and conservation in SSA. The first section of the paper presents progress on breeding of bottle gourd for horticultural traits, agronomic performance, nutritional and anti-nutritional composition, and biotic and abiotic stress tolerance. This is followed by important highlights on key genetic resources of cultivated and wild bottle gourd for demand driven breeding. Lastly, the review summaries advances in bottle gourd genomics, genetic engineering and genome editing. Information presented in this paper should aid bottle gourd breeders and agronomists to develop and deploy new generation and promising varieties with farmer- and market -preferred attributes.

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Progress on Genetic Improvement and Analysis of Bottle Gourd [Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.] for Agronomic Traits, Nutrient Compositions, and Stress Tolerance: A Review

Mkhize

Mashilo

Shimelis

2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…The studies show that the consumers in India prefer both types of Luffa spp. in their immature forms regardless of the fruit size [56]. The organoleptic properties are more varied in terms of the culinary patterns of the different regions of the world.…”

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The establishment of the species-delimits and varietal-identities of the cultivated germplasm of Luffa acutangula and Luffa aegyptiaca in Sri Lanka using morphometric, organoleptic and phylogenetic approaches

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Luffa acutangula and L . aegyptiaca are two vegetable species commonly found in South and South East Asia. L . acutangula is widely grown; however, L . aegyptiaca is considered as an underutilized crop. The species delimits, phylogenetic positions, and the varietal identities of L . acutangula and L . aegyptiaca in Sri Lanka are not known. Thus, in the present study, we aimed to establish the species delimits and varietal identities of L . acutangula and L . aegyptiaca varieties grown in Sri Lanka using morphometric, phylogenetic and organoleptic assessments. We assessed five varieties of L . acutangula and three varieties of L . aegyptiaca . The vegetative and reproductive data were collected for the morphometric analysis and DNA sequence polymorphism of the makers rbcL , trnH-psbA and ITS for the phylogenetic analysis. We also conducted an organoleptic assessment based on taste parameters; aroma, bitterness, color, texture, and overall preference using the dishes prepared according to the most common Sri Lankan recipe for Luffa . The variation of the vegetative and reproductive traits grouped L . acutangula varieties into two distinct clusters. The trnH-psbA polymorphism provided the basis for the species delimits of L . acutangula and L . aegyptiaca . The rbcL and ITS polymorphisms provided the basis for the identities of the varieties of L . aegyptiaca and L . acutangula respectively. In the phylogeny, the L . acutangula varieties of Sri Lanka formed a unique clade and the L . aegyptiaca varieties formed a reciprocal monophyletic group in comparison to worldwide L . aegyptiaca reported. The taste parameters aroma, texture, color, and overall preference were significantly different among the Luffa varieties. The L . aegyptiaca varieties received lower preference in the organoleptic assessment. The present study sets the species delimits, phylogenetic positions and the varietal identities of the cultivated germplasm of Luffa and revealed the distinct morphological and organolep...

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“…Wax gourd [Benincasa hispida (Thunb.) Cogn., Tiezhu cv] tis known as a crop with a strong sink strength and produces normally over 20 kg (Xie et al, 2019) or in some cases up to 50 kg (Dhillon et al, 2016) fresh weight per single fruit. Wax gourd is widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions of the world, usually consumed as vegetable and contains high level of valuable nutrients and even used in the traditional medicine (Marr et al, 2007;Ghosh and Baghel, 2011;Nurul et al, 2011).…”

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Magnesium Deficiency Reduced the Yield and Seed Germination in Wax Gourd by Affecting the Carbohydrate Translocation

Zhang

Çakmak

et al. 2020

Front. Plant Sci.

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Magnesium (Mg) is a particular mineral nutrient greatly affecting the size and activity of sink organs. Wax gourd crop with its fruits having fresh weight up to 20-50 kg per single fruit serves as an excellent experimental plant species for better understanding the role of varied Mg nutrition in sink strength and yield formation. This study aimed to investigate the effects of Mg deficiency on fruit yield and seed vigor in wax gourd grown under field conditions. Plants were grown under field conditions until maturity with increasing soil Mg applications. At the beginning of fruit formation, leaves were used to analyze concentrations of sucrose, starch and Mg as well as phloem export of sucrose. At maturity, fruit yield was determined and the seeds collected were used in germination studies and starch analysis. Low Mg supply resulted in a significant impairment in fruit fresh yield, which was closely associated with higher accumulation of starch and sucrose in source leaves and lower amount of sucrose in phloem exudate. Seeds obtained from Mg deficiency plants exhibited lower amount of starch and substantial reduction in both germination capacity and seedling establishment when compared to the seeds from the Mg adequate plants. Our study revealed that magnesium deficiency significantly diminished fruit yield of field-grown wax gourd, most probably by limiting the carbohydrate transport from source organs to developing fruit. Ensuring sufficient Mg supply to plant species with high sink size such as wax gourd, during the reproductive growth stage, is a critical factor for achieving higher fruit yield formation and also better vigor of next-generation seeds.

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Gourds: Bitter, Bottle, Wax, Snake, Sponge and Ridge

Cited by 18 publications

References 34 publications

Progress on Genetic Improvement and Analysis of Bottle Gourd [Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.] for Agronomic Traits, Nutrient Compositions, and Stress Tolerance: A Review

Progress on Genetic Improvement and Analysis of Bottle Gourd [Lagenaria siceraria (Molina) Standl.] for Agronomic Traits, Nutrient Compositions, and Stress Tolerance: A Review

The establishment of the species-delimits and varietal-identities of the cultivated germplasm of Luffa acutangula and Luffa aegyptiaca in Sri Lanka using morphometric, organoleptic and phylogenetic approaches

Magnesium Deficiency Reduced the Yield and Seed Germination in Wax Gourd by Affecting the Carbohydrate Translocation

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