An Assessment of Morphology and Yield Characteristics of Pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) Genotypes in Northern Bangladesh

Ahamed, K.U.; Akhter, B.; Islam,; Ara, N; Humauan,

doi:10.4038/tare.v14i1.4834

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“…These results are in agreement with the onesreported by , Balkaya et al (2010), Xiaohua et al (2011) and Ahamed et al (2011). Principal Component Analysis (PCA) showed that the three most informative principal components explained 52.5 % of the total variation.The first component accounted for 22.41% of the total variation, and is mainly defined, positively,by skin thickness and seed weight and negatively by seed margin, coat colourand predominant seed coat colour.…”

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Assessing Phenotypic Diversity of Cucurbita Portuguese Germplasm

Martins¹,

Carvalho²,

Carnide³

2015

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SUMMARYCucurbita is considered one of the most variable genera in the entire plant kingdom with regard to fruit characteristics (colour, size and shape). The most important species are: C. maxima, C. pepo, C. argyrosperma, C. ficifolia and C. moschata. In Portugal, the production of Cucurbita spp. is based in local populations and is mainly for self-consumption (human food or animal feed) and sale on local markets. The aim of this work was to characterize 108 populations of Cucurbita being55 of C. pepo, 32 of C. maxima and 21 of C. moschata. A total of20 traits (13 qualitative and seven quantitative) were scored according to the Minimum Descriptors for Cucurbita spp. developed by the ECPGR Working Group on Cucurbits were used. The C. pepo populations revealed the highest mean values for fruit length, skin thickness and seed weight, and the populations of C. maxima showed the highest mean values for fruit width and 100 seed weight. The C. moschata populations presented the highest mean values for fruit weight and flesh thickness. ANOVA revealed significant differences for all traits, with exception of skin thickness. Principal Component Analysis showed that the three most informative principal components explained 52.5 % of the total variation and a clear separation of the three species. The results reveal a high variability in this collection ofCucurbita populations.

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Assessing Phenotypic Diversity of Cucurbita Portuguese Germplasm

Martins¹,

Carvalho²,

Carnide³

2015

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“…Countries such as Bangladesh [15], Egypt [1], Nigeria [10], and Turkey [9,16], have different numbers of Cucurbita species accessions. However, in South Africa the Agricultural Research Council genebank in Roodeplaat, has a total of 36 C. pepo and C. maxima accessions that were only collected from Bushbuckridge, Polokwane and Ladysmith areas [13].…”

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Ethno-botanical Knowledge on Diversity of Cucurbita Landraces Grown in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Ntuli¹,

Madakadze²,

Zobolo³

2016

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Ethnobotanical knowledge on local Cucurbita landraces was documented in three district municipalities of northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Seven distinct landraces of C. argyrosperma, C. maxima and C. pepo were identified by local (isiZulu) names as iNhlwathi emhlophe, iNhlwathi emnyama, iPhuzi, isiPhama, iThanga, uMpampini oluhlaza and uMpampini ophuzi. The majority had leaves with silvery-white mottling in axils of leaf veins, but isiPhama and uMpampini oluhlaza had uniformly green leaves. INhlwathi emhlophe and iNhlwathi emnyama had the largest fruits and isiPhama had the smallest. Landrace iNhlwathi emnyama maintained its green fruit colour at maturity, while iPhuzi changed to uniform yellow/orange fruit colour before maturity. The isiPhama, uMpampini oluhlaza and uMpampini ophuzi had sparse to moderate stem branching habit and the sweetest, less watery fruits of them all. Seed colour ranged from cream to white. This study was the first attempt to record the genetic-related diversity on types of Cucurbita landraces that are grown in South Africa. It also recorded the presence of C. argyrosperma for the first time in this country.

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“…The highest number of fruits per plant was observed in PK09 (7.58) while the lowest number of fruits per plant was found in PK14 (2.96) closely followed by the other inbreds except PK01 (5.38), PK02 (5.13), PK09 (7.58) and PK16 (5.13). Ahmed et al (2011) reported significant differences in fruit per plant in different pumpkin genotypes and the highest number of fruits per plant (15.74) was observed in one genotype. Akter et al (2013) found fruits per plant ranging from 1.52 to 4.60.…”

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“…Fruit weight differed from one another might be due to inherent character of the inbreds. Ahmed et al (2011) reported significant variation present in average fruit weight and it ranged from 1.51 to 4.20 kg. Pandey et al (2003) obtained that the average fruit weight of pumpkin in the range of 1.33 to 9.10 kg.…”

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“…There are number of local cultivars/land races with wide range of variability in size, shape and colour of fruits available in Bangladesh (Rashid, 1993;Kamaluddin, 1996). Many scientists reported significant variations present in pumpkin genotypes (Ahmed et al, 2011;Akter et al, 2013;Aruah et al, 2012). In order to develop HYVs of Pumpkin the Olericulture Division, HRC, BARI collected a good number of pumpkin germplasm and developed 19 inbreds.…”

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Evaluation of pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata Duch. Ex Poir.) for yield and other characters

Ahmed

Masud

Zakaria

et al. 2017

Bangladesh J. Agric. Res

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Nineteen inbreds of pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata Duch. Ex Poir.) were evaluated at the experimental farm of Olericulture Division, Horticulture Research Centre, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Gazipur during the rabi season of 2011-12 to select the promising inbreds for higher fruit yield along with other important characters. Thirteen quantitative and three qualitative characters along with fruit fly infestation and virus incidence were studied. The inbreds differed significantly in most of the quantitative characters. All the qualitative characters (fruit shape, fruit skin colour and flesh colour) showed distinct variation among the inbreds. All the inbreds except PK05, PK16, PK17 and PK18 were attacked with Water Melon Virus 2 (WMV2). Fruits of all the lines were more or less infested by fruit fly. The study revealed that the inbreds differing significantly in most of the parameters offer a good scope of selection of better inbreds for desired traits. The flesh thickness, average fruit weight, fruits per plant ranged from 2.61 to 5.39 cm, 1.41 to 5.78 kg and 2.96 to 7.58 respectively. On the basis of yield and other yield attributes nine inbreds viz., PK01, PK02, PK03, PK06, PK07, PK08, PK09, PK10 and PK16 were found promising. These inbreds will be helpful in breeding program to evolve high yielding varieties of pumpkin with better quality.

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An Assessment of Morphology and Yield Characteristics of Pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) Genotypes in Northern Bangladesh

Cited by 23 publications

References 4 publications

Assessing Phenotypic Diversity of Cucurbita Portuguese Germplasm

Assessing Phenotypic Diversity of Cucurbita Portuguese Germplasm

Ethno-botanical Knowledge on Diversity of Cucurbita Landraces Grown in Northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Evaluation of pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata Duch. Ex Poir.) for yield and other characters

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