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Publication: IIP Proceedings Year: 2022, Month: November Page No: 1-13, ISSN/ISBN: 978-93-95632-84-3, DOI/Link: https://rsquarel.org/assets/docupload/rsl2023335456FB1B78795.pdf
RECENT ADVANCES IN LUFFA VEGETABLES
Area/Stream: Biotechnology, Authors: Safal Rai, Ram Krishna Sarkar, Suchand Datta, Ujyol Rai Keywords: crop improvement, Luffa vegetables, biotic stresses, abiotic stresses, superior varieties. Book Name /series: Futuristic Trends in Biotechnology ,Volume 2, Book 28, Chapter 1Publication: IIP Proceedings Year: 2022, Month: November Page No: 1-13, ISSN/ISBN: 978-93-95632-84-3, DOI/Link: https://rsquarel.org/assets/docupload/rsl2023335456FB1B78795.pdf
Abstract:
Luffa vegetables are one of the important cucurbitaceous vegetable crops enriched with several nutritional and medicinal properties. The genus Luffa comprises of several species among which Luffa acutangula and Luffa cylindrica are the important domesticated species that are most common and popular under commercial cultivation throughout the World. Such vegetables are rich source of vitamin A, calcium, phosphorous, ascorbic acid, iron and found to be helpful in treating several diseases including diabetes, hypertension, inflammatory diseases, diarrhoea and several viral infections. The rapidly increasing human population is triggering a number of challenges including the food demand. Luffa vegetables being one of the important cucurbitaceous vegetable crop that play a vital role in fulfilling the vegetable demand also seems to be affected by such prevailing conditions. Due to such sudden rise in demand and prevalence of several biotic and abiotic stresses for successful cultivation, conventional breeding methods are found to be sterile to combat such complications. Therefore, there is a need of advancement in crop improvement technique or method at advance level including molecular breeding with major emphasis on development of high yielding superior varieties/hybrids, resistant to different biotic and abiotic stresses, containing good nutritive value, adaptable to different environment conditions, etc. which ultimately favours improvement of crop in different aspects Thus, this chapter deals with the recent methods or technologies opted for successful crop improvement in Luffa vegetables till date with recent achievements for fruitful cultivation.
Cite this: Safal Rai, Ram Krishna Sarkar, Suchand Datta, Ujyol Rai,"RECENT ADVANCES IN LUFFA VEGETABLES", Futuristic Trends in Biotechnology ,Volume 2, Book 28, Chapter 1, November, 2022, 1-13, 978-93-95632-84-3, https://rsquarel.org/assets/docupload/rsl2023335456FB1B78795.pdf
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