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Front. Nutr.
Sec. Nutrition and Food Science Technology
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1393476
This article is part of the Research Topic Agro-Morphological and Nutritional Profiling of Crops Vol. 2 View all articles

Antioxidant activities, dietary nutrients and yield potential of bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) lines under diverse growing environments

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Gograj S. Jat Gograj S. Jat 1*Tusar K. Behera Tusar K. Behera 2*Awani K. Singh Awani K. Singh 3Ram Swaroop Bana Ram Swaroop Bana 4*Deepak Singh Deepak Singh 5Samarth Godara Samarth Godara 5*Umesh K. Reddy Umesh K. Reddy 6P. GANGADHARA RAO P. GANGADHARA RAO 7Hanuman Ram Hanuman Ram 8VINAY N D VINAY N D 9Sachin Kumar Sachin Kumar 10*Bhoopal S. Tomar Bhoopal S. Tomar 10
  • 1 Division of Vegetable Science - IARI, New Delhi, India
  • 2 ICAR–Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • 3 Centre for Protected Cultivation Technology, ICAR–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
  • 4 Division of Agronomy, ICAR–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
  • 5 Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, India
  • 6 Department of Biology, Gus R. Douglass Institute, West Virginia State University, Institute, WV, USA, West Virginia, United States
  • 7 Department of Vegetable Science, Dr YSR Horticultural University, Vekataramannagudem, West Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India
  • 8 ICAR-Central Institute for Arid Horticulture, Bikaner, Rajasthan, India
  • 9 ICAR-National Institute of Biotic Stress Management, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
  • 10 Division of Vegetable Science, ICAR – Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

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    The biotic and abiotic stresses cause a significant decline in yield and fruit quality traits including antioxidants and minerals of bitter gourd under open field grown crop. Protected cultivation technology has emerged to minimize such stresses. We investigated the effect of diverse environments (Hi-tech green-house, naturally ventilated-polyhouse, insect-proof net-house and open field scenario) and breeding lines on earliness, yield potential, antioxidant activities and dietary nutrients. In the GYT analysis, 12 treatment combination effects involving four raising environments and three breeding lines of bitter gourd were examined. The 3-years study suggested that cultivation of bitter gourd crop under insect proof net house (NH) showed superior performance for earliness, yield attributing traits, antioxidant activities and dietary nutrients followed by naturally ventilated polyhouse (NP). However, NH was at par with the NP and significantly greater than the open field grown crop. The GYT biplot analysis highlighted that the combinations of NH and Pusa Rasdar outperformed and found most stable treatment for all the traits investigated followed by NH in conjunction with S32 and S57 lines. This study suggests that growing of bitter gourd under protected environments is the optimal strategy to fetch an early price in the market as well as to improve yield and nutritional quality of fruits.

    Keywords: Antioxidants, Micronutrients, Protected cultivation, GYT biplot, Bitter gourd

    Received: 29 Feb 2024; Accepted: 08 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Jat, Behera, Singh, Bana, Singh, Godara, Reddy, RAO, Ram, N D, Kumar and Tomar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Gograj S. Jat, Division of Vegetable Science - IARI, New Delhi, India
    Tusar K. Behera, ICAR–Indian Institute of Vegetable Research, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
    Ram Swaroop Bana, Division of Agronomy, ICAR–Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
    Samarth Godara, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, India
    Sachin Kumar, Division of Vegetable Science, ICAR – Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

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