Claim · model-written summary
Seed and fruit traits of pumpkin are appropriate for improvement through breeding to enhance seed quality.
- Taxon
- pumpkine0
- Outcome
- improvement through breedinge7
- Qualifier
- Seed width, fruit width, seed cavity diameter, and fruit weight and lengthe7
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Verbatim
e0“Genetic and phytochemical diversity of pumpkin accessions were evaluated to identify characters in the selection of parents for future breeding”
e7“Seed width, fruit width, seed cavity diameter, and fruit weight and length were appropriate for improvement through breeding to enhance seed quality”
Title
Estimation of Genetic Diversity inCucurbitaSpecies Using Morphological and Phytochemical Analysis
Forouzande Soltani; Roghayeh Karimi; Abodlkarim Kashi International Journal of Vegetable Science 2016. doi:10.1080/19315260.2016.1174968
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Cluster analysis of pumpkin accessions gave six main groups, mainly on fruit and seed characters.
- Observation The maxima accessions of pumpkin were placed in a separate group.
- Observation Khomein accession had higher seed weight than other naked seed types of pumpkin.
- Observation Chaloos C. moschata accession was the best pumpkin accession based on fruit and seed characters and fatty acid amounts.
- Observation An accession from Isfahan had the highest oleic acid content in the seed of pumpkin.
- Observation Pumpkin seed oil contains the unsaturated fatty acids oleic acid and linoleic acid.