Xanthopoulou, Aliki; Montero-Pau, Javier; Picó Sirvent, María Belén; Boumpas, Panagiotis; Tsaliki, Eleni; Paris, Harry S.; Tsaftaris, Athanasios; Kalivas, Apostolos; Mellidou, Ifigeneia; Ganopoulos, Ioannis(Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.), 2021-05-12)
[EN] Background Summer squash (Cucurbita pepo: Cucurbitaceae) are a popular horticultural crop for which there is insufficient genomic and transcriptomic information. Gene expression atlases are crucial for the identification ...
Davis, Angela R.; Perkins-Veazie, Penelope; Sakata, Yoshieru; López Galarza, Salvador Vicente; Maroto Borrego, José Vicente; Lee, Sang-Gyu; Huh, Yun-Chan; Sun, Zhanyong; Miguel Gómez, Alfredo; King, Stephen R.; Cohen, Roni; Lee, Jung-Myung(Taylor & Francis, 2008-02)
[EN] Due to limited availability of arable land and high market demand for off-season vegetables, cucurbits (plants in the family Cucurbitaceae) are continuously cultivated under unfavorable conditions in some countries. ...
[EN] The Cucurbita genus (squashes, pumpkins and gourds) includes important domesticated species such as C. pepo, C. maxima and C. moschata. In this study, we present a high-quality draft of the zucchini (C. pepo) genome. ...
Cervera-Seco, Luis; Marques, M.C.; Sanz-Carbonell, Alejandro; Márquez-Molins, Joan; CARBONELL, ALBERTO; DAROS ARNAU, JOSE ANTONIO; Gomez, Gustavo Germán(Oxford University Press, 2019-11)
[EN] Small interfering RNAs (siRNA) are key regulators of gene expression that play essential roles in diverse biological processes. Trans-acting siRNAs (tasiRNAs) are a class of plant-endogenous siRNAs that lead the ...
López Del Rincón, Carmelo; Ferriol Molina, María; Picó Sirvent, María Belén(Springer Verlag (Germany), 2015-08)
[EN] Cucurbits are major crop species, including
fruits and vegetables cultivated worldwide that
supply essential vitamins and minerals to current diets
in developed and developing countries. Viral diseases
are ...
Gonzalo, Maria Jose; Claveria, Elisabet; Monforte Gilabert, Antonio José; Dolcet-Sanjuan, Ramon(American Society for Horticultural Science, 2011-03)
[EN] Melon (Cucumis melo) is one of the principal vegetable crops for fresh market, for which a large number of
breeding programs, oriented to generate inbred pure lines and hybrids, is established worldwide. The process ...
Peñalver Sánchez, Paula(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-10-02)
[ES] Las Cucurbitáceas (melón, pepino, sandía, calabazas y calabacines) son una de las familias de plantas hortícolas más cultivadas alrededor del mundo. Entre los problemas a los que se ven sometidas estas plantas, uno ...
[EN] Melon has undergone an intense process of selection and crossbreeding, resulting in many landraces distributed all over Europe, Africa and Asia. Due to this huge variability, the systematic position of this taxon has ...
Background: Cucurbita pepo belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family. The "Zucchini" types rank among the highest-valued vegetables worldwide, and other C. pepo and related Cucurbita spp., are food staples and rich sources of ...
Herrera Vásquez, José Ángel; Córdoba Sellés, Carmen; Cebrian Mico, Mª Carmen; Font San Ambrosio, Maria Isabel; Alfaro Fernández, Ana Olvido; Jordá Gutiérrez, María Concepción(Edizioni ETS, 2013-07)
[EN] The main areas of field-grown cucurbit production in Panama were surveyed for the occurrence and distribution of viruses in the growing seasons of 2006 and 2008. Notably, in 2006 only Melon necrotic spot virus (MNSV) ...