Chinese researchers have reported that a gourd used in Asia to help diabetics control blood sugar could reduce the amount ofinjected insulin that Type1 diabetics take to survive. An extract of ...

Last fall, Thomas Andres was wandering around New York City's Chinatown when he happened upon the subject of his doctoral dissertation: the lacayote, Cucurbita ficifolia, a South American squash ...

The genera Cucurbita comprises economically and culturally significant squashes and pumpkins, whose genetic diversity and evolutionary trajectories reveal insights into domestication, adaptation and ...

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