the reaction of nineteen different cultivars of cucurbita spp. including cucurbita pepo, cucurbita maxima and lagenaria siceraria to phytophthora capsici, phytophthora melonis and phytophthora drechsleri was studied under greenhouse conditions. plants were grown in steam sterilized soil. one-month-old plants were inoculated with vermiculate hempseed extract inocula of phytophthora and were floo...

Lagenaria siceraria is traditionally being used in many countries in the treatment of various diseases including diabetes. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the safety of the methanol extract of L. siceraria aerial parts (MELS) through acute and subchronic toxicity study in mice. For acute toxicity study 5002000 mg/kg MELS were administered orally and obvious toxic symptoms and morta...

The aim of present study was to carry out the preliminary phytochemical studies and nephroprotective activity of metahanolic and aqueous extracts of Lagenaria siceraria seeds, family cucurbitaceae. These studies revealed the presence of flavonoids, tannins (ellagitannins), saponins, polyphenols, triterpenes, lagenin (protein) in the extracts. The extract was found to be potent diuretic which ca...

We present the case of a young woman who presented to us with multiple episodes of vomiting, followed by hematemesis and abdominal pain after consuming bottle gourd juice. The patient was resuscitated and stabilized with fluids, proton pump inhibitors and antiemetics and discharged in stable condition. As a member of the Cucurbitaceae family, bottle gourd contains toxic tetracyclic triterpenoid...

The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled "Ant abundance and Cosmopolites sordidus damage in plantain fields as affected by intercropping" (A.G. Dassou, D. Carval, S. Dépigny, G.H Fansi, P. Tixier, 2015) [1]. This article describes how associated crops maize (Zea mays), cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagittifolium) and bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) intercropped i...

Small gourd ( Lagenaria siceraria  var .  microcarpa  (Naud.) Hara), a cultivar of   family, is an important medicinal and ornamental plants. However, there are few studies on its chloroplast (cp) genome. In this study, we characterized complete genome with high throughput sequencing. The circular cp determined to be 157, 121 bp in length, long sing-copy small separated...