Journal of Plant Science & Molecular Breeding
Penulis
Chittaranjan Kole, Bode A. Olukolu, Phullara Kole, Virendra K.
Rao, Anju Bajpai, S. Backiyarani, Jogendra Singh, R. Elanchezhian, and Albert
G. Abbott
Bitter Melon (Momordica
charantia L.) (in Indonesia it is called as Pare/Paria) is a kind of plant
which is traditionally cultivated both for food vegetable and medicine either
in tropical or subtropical areas of all over the world. Nonetheless, it still remains as an
underutilized crop and no serious efforts have been made for elucidation of its
genome or its genetic improvement. In fact, the genome size is more than twice
the genome size of other cucurbits,
