Kang, Lu Wu, Yangliu Zhang, Jingbang An, Quanshun Zhou, Chunran Li, Dong Pan, Canping
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Ecotoxicology and environmental safety
Pesticides are widely used in melon production causing safety issues around the consumption of melon and increasing pathogen and insect tolerance to pesticides. This study investigated whether a nano-selenium (Nano-Se) spray treatment can improve resistance to biological stress in melon plants, reducing the need for pesticides, and how this mechani...
Amanullah, Sikandar Osae, Benjamin Agyei Yang, Tiantian Abbas, Farhat Liu, Shi Liu, Hongyu Wang, Xuezheng Gao, Peng Luan, Feishi
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Molecular biology reports
Fruit morphology traits are important commercial traits that directly affect the market value. However, studying the genetic basis of these traits in un-explored botanical groups is a fundamental objective for crop genetic improvement through marker-assisted breeding. In this study, a quantitative trait loci (QTLs) mapping strategy was used for dis...
Atmowidi, Tri Prawasti, Taruni S Rianti, Puji Prasojo, Fikrunnia A Pradipta, Nalendra B
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Tropical life sciences research
Stingless bees (Apidae: Meliponini) are distributed in tropical and subtropical areas in the world. Stingless bees are potential pollinator to increase yield of various crops species. We measured the pollination effectiveness of stingless bees, i.e., Tetragonula laeviceps in strawberry (Fragaria x annanassa) and Heterotrigona itama in melon (Cucumi...
Tristán, Ana Isabel Abreu, Ana Cristina Aguilera-Sáez, Luis Manuel Peña, Araceli Conesa-Bueno, Andrés Fernández, Ignacio
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Food chemistry
A combination of FTIR- and NMR-based metabolomics approaches coupled to multivariate data analysis techniques was used for the first time to characterize and explore the metabolic changes along the ripening of two Spanish melon landraces (Jimbee N and Jimbee XL). Furthermore, the fatty acids profile and the antioxidant capacity were investigated by...
Fang, Siyu Duan, Yaqian Nie, Lanchun Zhao, Wensheng Wang, Jiahao Zhao, Jiateng Zhao, Liping Wang, Lei
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PeerJ
Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is an agronomically important vegetable. Most cultivars of melon are andromonoecious and bisexual flowers only emerged from the leaf axil of lateral branches. However, the regulatory mechanism contributing to the occurrence of bisexual flowers were still obscure. In this study, ethephon was applied in two common cultivars of...
Zhang, Hong Zhang, Xuejun Li, Meihua Yang, Yong Li, Zhiqiang Xu, Yuhui Wang, Haojie Wang, Dengming Zhang, Yongbing Wang, Huaisong
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Genomics
Melon is a popular fruit vegetable crop worldwide with diverse morphological variation. We report a high-density genetic map of melon and nine major QTLs with physical region ranging from 43.47 kb to 1.89 Mb. Importantly, two seed-related trait QTLs were repeatedly detected in two environments, and the mapping region was narrowed to 522 kb accordin...
Caballero Gutiérrez, Birina L. García Pacheco, Yair Pertuz Fontalvo, Darina L. Rivera Pertuz, Dary L.
In this project, a study was carried out to determine the market, technical, administrative and financial feasibility of the production and marketing of an isotonic drink made from melon pulp (Cucumis melo L.). Taking into account that the project comprised different studies, the methodology used included four phases in which the objectives set out...
Cui, Lei Siskos, Lampros Wang, Chen Schouten, Henk J. Visser, Richard G.F. Bai, Yuling
Melon (Cucumis melo L.) production is often restricted by a plethora of pests and diseases, including powdery mildew and downy mildew caused respectively by the fungal species Podosphaera xanthii/Golovinomyces orontii and oomycete species Pseudoperonospora cubensis. Many efforts have been directed on identification of resistant sources by screening...
Siskos, Lampros Cui, Lei Wang, Chen Visser, Richard G.F. Bai, Yuling Schouten, Henk J.
Tomato leaf curl New Dehli virus (ToLCNDV) is a whitefly transmitted plant virus that is affecting European melon cultivation for over a decade. Since its first introduction in the Mediterranean basin the virus has been associated with significant economic losses including lower yields and cracked non-marketable fruits in Spain and other key cucurb...
Bai, Yujia Feng, Zuoshan Paerhati, Maerhaba Wang, Jin
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Applied Biological Chemistry
This study explored the mechanism of melon resistance to Alternaria alternata (A. alternata) infection in Jiashi and 86-1 melons. Melons were inoculated with A.alternata and the change in lesion diameter was measured. The changes in cinnamic acid-4-hydroxylase (C4H), phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL), and 4-coumaric acid coenzyme A ligase (4CL) act...
