MOMORDICA CHARANTIA L. – NEW ACLIMATIZED PLANT IN ROMANIA. BOTANICAL CHARACTERS (REVIEW 1)

Abstract

It has been performed an ample documentation about Momordica charantia L., a plant for the future, for food, nutrition and health security, respectively a plant with extended benefits in domains as: botanics, horticulture, phytochemistry, medicine, therapy health security a. o. This is the first published review on M. charantia in Romania in the frame of the project PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-0995-160/2014 "Multifunctional and innovative products for safe and bioenhanced functional food from newly cultivated plants in Romania" developed at ICECHIM (INCDCP) Bucharest [ŞESAN, 2017; ŞESAN & al. 2018]. The present review contains the following aspects: introduction, botanical description, synonyms, common names, taxonomy, nomenclature, origin, distribution, biological actions. This review will be continued in next contributions about the same promising plant.