‘Pusa Santushti’: A New High-Yielding Bottle Gourd Variety

Behera, Tusar Kanti; Sirohi, P. S.; Pal, Anand

doi:10.1080/19315260.2013.876565

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“…Variation in fruit shape and size in bottle gourd has a direct relationship with fruit yield. Several studies reported that direct selection for agronomic traits including number of female flowers per plant, number of branches per plant, number of fruits per plant, fruit width and plant height can increase fruit yield potential in bottle gourd (Narayan et al, 1996;Behera et al, 2015;Yao et al, 2015). For direct improvement of fruit yield, selection for high number of female flowers is desirable due to high correlations between these two traits (Dey et al, 2006;Mashilo et al, 2016b).…”

Section: Agronomic Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In India, several high-yielding varieties have been developed by exploiting heterosis followed by mass selection from segregating populations (Sarao et al, 2014;Behera et al, 2015). Similar, hybrid breeding has been explored in various cucurbit crops including bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.), cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.), squash (Cucurbita maxima L.), melon (Cucumis melo L.), and watermelon (Citrullus lanatus L.) (Rhodes and Zhang, 2000;Robinson, 2000;Kohli and Vikram, 2005;Al-Mamun et al, 2016).…”

Section: Agronomic Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

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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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