Species of plant
Cucurbita argyrosperma , also called the cushaw squash and silver-seed gourd , is a species of winter squash originally from the south of Mexico .[ 3] [ 4] This annual herbaceous plant is cultivated in the Americas for its nutritional value: its flowers, shoots, and fruits are all harvested, but it is cultivated most of all for its seeds,[ 5] which are used for sauces. It was formerly known as Cucurbita mixta .[ 5] [ 6]
It is a Cucurbita species, with varieties that are commonly cultivated in the United States as part of the Eastern Agricultural Complex [ 7] and Mexico south to Nicaragua . Of all the cultivated Cucurbita species it is the least found outside the Americas. It originated in Mesoamerica , most likely in the state of Jalisco , Mexico from its wild sororia form .[ 8] The reference genome of this species was published in 2019.[ 9]
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^ Fritz, Gayle J. (1994). "Precolumbian Cucurbita argyrosperma ssp. argyrosperma (Cucurbitaceae) in the Eastern Woodlands of North America". Economic Botany . 48 (3). New York Botanical Garden Press : 280–292. doi :10.1007/bf02862329 . JSTOR 4255642 . S2CID 20262842 .
^ Barrera-Redondo, Josué; Sánchez-de la Vega, Guillermo; Aguirre-Liguori, Jonás A.; Castellanos-Morales, Gabriela; Gutiérrez-Guerrero, Yocelyn T.; Aguirre-Dugua, Xitlali; Aguirre-Planter, Erika; Tenaillon, Maud I.; Lira-Saade, Rafael; Eguiarte, Luis E. (December 2021). "The domestication of Cucurbita argyrosperma as revealed by the genome of its wild relative" . Horticulture Research . 8 (1): 109. doi :10.1038/s41438-021-00544-9 . PMC 8087764 . PMID 33931618 .
^ Barrera-Redondo, Josué; Ibarra-Laclette, Enrique; Vázquez-Lobo, Alejandra; Gutiérrez-Guerrero, Yocelyn T.; Sánchez de la Vega, Guillermo; Piñero, Daniel; Montes-Hernández, Salvador; Lira-Saade, Rafael; Eguiarte, Luis E. (April 2019). "The Genome of Cucurbita argyrosperma (Silver-Seed Gourd) Reveals Faster Rates of Protein-Coding Gene and Long Noncoding RNA Turnover and Neofunctionalization within Cucurbita" . Molecular Plant . 12 (4): 506–520. doi :10.1016/j.molp.2018.12.023 .