Introduction: The genetic diversity of melon groups has been characterized using molecular analyses (5, 6, & 8). Random amplified polymorphic DNA markers have been used by García et al. (1) and Staub et al. (7) to assess the genetic diversity of elite germplasm. Likewise, Mliki et al. (3) and Nakata (4) used the same markers employed by Staub et al. (7) to define the diversity among African and...

Resistance breakdown has been observed following the deployment of plant cultivars resistant to pests. Assessing the durability of a resistance requires long-term experiments at least at a regional scale. We collected such data for melon resistance conferred by the Vat gene cluster to melon aphids. We examined landscape-level populations of Aphis gossypii collected in 2004-2015, from melon-prod...

In this study, goat fat (Capra hircus) and melon oil were extracted and used to formulate self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery systems (SNEDDS) based on either goat fat alone or its admixture with melon oil by employing escalating ratios of oil(s), surfactant blend (1 : 1 Tween 60 and Tween 80), and cosurfactant (Span 85), with or without carbosil, a glidant, for the delivery of indomethacin. The...

While compiling genetic linkage maps in several plant species based upon restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs), it was noted that the incidence of polymorphism differs among species. The basis of this disparity was investigated in this study by examining the nucleotide sequence at homologous loci among distinct cultivars within two species which exhibit considerably different levels...

Anticoagulants are drugs used to inhibit the development and enlargement of a blood clot. Melon is known contain adenosime that function stop clotting cell chip. This study aims identify secondary metabolites contained in melon juice, fruit juice anticoagulant activity vivo melon, look for an effective dose as potential compared with aspirin. A total 15 male mice were divided into 5 groups, i.e...

There is a need to assess alternative cropping systems for climate change mitigation. Hence, we aimed evaluate if cowpea, legume crop with high adaptability and active rhizodeposition, can reduce GHG emissions when intercropped melon, different intercropping patterns affect these soil emissions, elucidate are related by properties. We compared cowpea melon monocultures melon-cowpea during two c...

Groundnut and Melon husks (shell) were collected from the market side in Kaduna metropolis, Kaduna State and milled into powder for proximate and anti-nutritional analysis. The results of proximate analysis showed that groundnut shell contained moisture content, ash content, crude fibre, lipid, crude protein, carbohydrate, oxalate, phytate, cyanogenic glycosides and trypsin inhibitor are 8.0%, ...

Our aim was to optimise the encapsulation of an aqueous bitter melon extract by spray-drying with maltodextrin (MD) and gum Arabic (GA). The response surface methodology models accurately predicted the process yield and retentions of bioactive concentrations and activity (R² > 0.87). The optimal formulation was predicted and validated as 35% (w/w) stock solution (MD:GA, 1:1) and a ratio of 1.5:...

Improved methodology for recovering microbial contaminants from cantaloupe surface is needed. Recovery of bacteria from the entire rind of cantaloupes, obtained with a mechanical peeler, and use of a new method for calculating melon surface area were investigated using melons inoculated with Salmonella Poona or Escherichia coli NRRL B-766. Growth of Salmonella but not E. coli was found during p...

Treatment of melon leaves or seedlings with elicitors of Colletotrichum lagenarium, a fungal pathogen of melon, increases chitinase activity. In treated leaves, chitinase is enhanced within the first 6 hours and becomes 2 to 10 times higher than in control leaves after 24 hours. Ethylene is increased simultaneously and is correlated with chitinase elicitation. In the presence of aminoethoxyviny...