Textbook on Bitter Gourd: Improvement, Cultivation and Post-Harvest Management

This book entitled Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L.) provides an in depth review of the current state of art of research conducted in bitter gourd. The books begins with exhaustive description in terms of origin and distribution, nutritive value and uses, taxonomy, systematics and botany, cytogenetics, genetics and breeding methods, varieties and hybrids, cultivation practices, pest and diseases and their management, post harvest and value addition and quality seed production techniques of bitter gourd have been well documented and illustrated under ten chapters with latest research findings. This book will full fill the needs of students, scientist and farming community.

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Nutritive value and uses. 3. Taxonomy, systematics and botany. 4. Cytogenetics, genetics and breeding methods. 5. Varieties and hybrids of bitter gourd. 6. Cultivation practices. 7. Pest of bitter gourd and their management. 8. Diseases of bitter gourd and their management. 9. Post harvest and value addition. 10. Quality seed production techniques. References.