Interspecific hybridization perhaps not successful. Intergeneric hybridization successful - https://books.google.co.in/books?id=oh1S2zLjAGsC&pg=PA241&lpg=PA241&dq=parentage+of+bitter+gourd&source=bl&ots=oT2N3ybLWf&sig=1EXFd8z25aree5FeGRDWVIQJDXU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SdfpVLugLcySuASrsoLgCQ&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=parentage%20of%20bitter%20gourd&f=false
Lots of varieties are there - - http://www.academia.edu/10813842/HETEROSIS_STUDIES_FOR_QUANTITATIVE_TRAITS_IN_BITTER_GOURD_Momordica_charantia_L._ - https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.inflibnet.ac.in%2Fojs%2Findex.php%2FKJAS%2Farticle%2Fdownload%2F1274%2F1153&ei=8dXpVLi2IpWguQTuvoHoBg&usg=AFQjCNFL0WVGmYaTXQOpdxC8aUiiYzVVqQ&sig2=EGwW0Dog4pP5LHQU0blCTw&bvm=bv.86475890,d.c2E - guidelines - http://www.plantauthority.gov.in/pdf/DBitterGourd.pdf On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 5:20 PM, surajit koley < [email protected]> wrote: > Yes, as per following links one of which is a Govt. site - > > 1. http://eng.coa.gov.tw/content_view.php?catid=9436&hot_new=8846 > 2. http://203.64.245.61/web_crops/cucurbits/bittergourd.pdf > 3. http://bittermelon.org/learn/diversity > > Sources say they are hybrids. The question is who is the other parent? > Answer perhaps is not available right now, for seed companies won't > disclose this rather recent variety. > > Thank you > Regards > surajit > > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:20 PM, J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for Id confirmation or otherwise please. >> >> Some earlier relevant feedback: >> >> efi page on Momordica charantia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species/a---l/cl/cucurbitaceae/momordica/momordica-charantia> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Aarti S. Khale <[email protected]> >> Date: 19 February 2015 at 13:08 >> Subject: [efloraofindia:215996] Momordica charantia-White Colored : >> Cucurbitaceae : For Validation : California : 19FEB15 : AK-22 >> To: efloraofindia <[email protected]>, Gurcharan Singh < >> [email protected]> >> >> >> Seen at the Farmer's Market in Fremont during Sept,14. >> For validation. >> Aarti >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >> The whole world uses my Image Resource >> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. >> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as >> per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group >> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the >> world- more than 2400 members & 2,00,000 messages on 9.9.14) or Efloraofindia >> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species >> database of more than 10,000 species & 2,00,000 images). Winner of >> Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. >> >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
