The in vivo antitumor activity of a crude extract from the bitter melon (Momordica charantia) was determined. The extract inhib ited tumor formation in CBA/H mice which had been given i.p. injections of 1.0 x 105 CBA/DI tumor cells (77% of the untreated mice with tumors versus 33% of the treated mice with tumors after 6 weeks). The extract also inhibited tumor formation in DBA/2 mice which had ...

objective: importance of management of gardens weeds is an issue that unfortunately has less been investigated by weeds researchers of country. one of the most important restrictive agents of cultivated surface and producing crops of citrus orchards are weeds. methods: in this investigation, isolates of fusarium solani were recovered from diseased broomrape collected from tomato, eggplant, melo...

In the article, conditions of bioecological development pest species, dynamics during vegetation period and criterion harmfulness, types diseases are studied in fields. Information on biological effectiveness measures controlling pests encountered fields is given. KEY WORDS: cucurbits crops, melon, melon fly, porosity making diseases, control.

abstract the pythium spp. are known as the principle agents of seedling blight, damping-off and root rot of cucurbits. this study was performed for determination of pythium species involved in this diseases as well study their pathogenecity on different cucurbits. the numerous samples were taken at cultivation seasons 2006- 2007 from the fields of cucumber, tomato, egg plant, muskmelon, cucurbi...

a set of 18 simple sequence repeat (ssr) primer pairs was employed to assess the genetic diversity in a collection of 52 melon genotypes that consisted of 24 melon accessions representing different horticultural groups of iranian cultivated melons, along with 28 reference accessions from diverse foreign geographical origins. all the studied ssr loci were polymorphic, confirming their potential ...

STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE Melon-headed whales are found in tropical and warm-temperate waters throughout the world. The distribution of reported sightings suggests that the oceanic habitat of this species is primarily equatorial waters (Perryman et al. 1994). Small numbers have been taken in the tuna purse-seine fishery in the eastern tropical Pacific, and they are occasionally kill...

Momordica charantia is often called bitter melon, bitter gourd or bitter squash because its fruit has a bitter taste. The fruit has been widely used as vegetable and herbal medicine. Alpha-eleostearic acid is the major fatty acid in the seeds, but little is known about its biosynthesis. As an initial step towards understanding the biochemical mechanism of fatty acid accumulation in bitter melon...

Two cDNA fragments (pCMe-ACS2 and 3) encoding auxin-responsive 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase (ACS; EC.4.4.1.14) have been isolated from melon, and the expression patterns of the genes in etiolated melon seedlings and melon fruit have been determined by RT-PCR analysis. The deduced amino acid sequences of pCMe-ACS2 and 3 were homologous to those of AT-ACS6 and 4, which were auxin-re...