Inter-varietal variation in the composition of seeds and seed oils from winter mel on [Benincasa Hispida (thunb.) cogn.] fruits.

• Main Authors: Anwar, Farooq, Mohammad, Nor Azizah, Othman, Fatimah, Saari, Nazamid
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Karachi 2011
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24138/1/Inter-varietal.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24138/

Winter melon (Benincasa hispida), locally known as Kundur, is a vegetable crop, popular, especially among Asian communities both for nutritional and medicinal attributes. In the present work, physicochemical properties of seeds and the extracted seed oils were examined and compared among three culti...