Pumpkins are the star member of the cucurbit family in October, but they are just one of the winter squash varieties available now, and many others are as tasty as they are attractive. The cucurbit ...

Probably the last thing on your mind as a gardener during the month of January is growing butternut squash. But now is the time to make a list of things you will be growing in your 2015 garden and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Winter squash is such a metaphor for life, isn’t it? Crack through its carapace-like shell and it’s little more than raw, bitter flesh, stringy and ...

For some, pumpkins conjure carved Halloween decorations, but for many people around the world, these gourds provide nutrition. Scientists at Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and the National Engineering ...

While winter squash plants are known to take up a lot of space in the garden, here's a selection of more compact varieties that you can grow in containers.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Portions of the hypocotyls of 16-day-old Cucurbita maxima plants, from which the cotyledons and first foliage leaves had been removed 2 days ...

For some, pumpkins conjure carved Halloween decorations, but for many people around the world, these gourds provide nutrition. Scientists have sequenced the genomes of two important pumpkin species, ...