Nutrition-Sensitive Breeding of Cucurbita Plants

Papers published within the Project

Papers published in scientific journals

• Matić M, Stupar A, Kebert M, Kiprovski B, Brdar-Jokanović M. 2025. The role of carotenoids in preventing oxidative stress: Exploring the antioxidant potential of pumpkin as a functional crop. Food and Feed, Online First. https://doi.org/10.5937/ffr0-56562 

• Brdar-Jokanović M, Kiprovski B, Kebert M, Matić M, Sikora V. 2025. Nutritional quality and agronomic yield in Cucurbita moschata hybrid combinations. Savremena poljoprivreda 74(1-2), 117-122. https://doi.org/10.2478/contagri-2025-0014 

• Kiprovski B, Kebert M, Matić M. 2024. Phenolics in pumpkin leaves: biochemistry for sustainable production. Alternative Crops and Cultivation Practices 6, 3-9. https://fiver.ifvcns.rs/handle/123456789/5805

Papers published in conference proceedings

• Matić M, Stupar A, Kebert M, Kiprovski B, Brdar-Jokanović M. 2025. Sequential dual-phase NADES extraction of bioactive compounds from pumpkin. Book of abstracts, 7th Edition of Euro-Global Conference on Food Science and Technology, 08-10.09.2025, Valencia, Spain, p. 91-92. https://fiver.ifvcns.rs/handle/123456789/5794

• Kiprovski B, Kebert M, Brdar-Jokanović M, Sikora V, Matić M. 2025. Pre-breeding of Cucurbita plants for tolerance to abiotic stress using metabolic stress markers. Book of abstracts, 24th Congress of FESPB – the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology/Plant Biology Europe 2025, 25-28.06.2025. Budapest, Hungary, p. A-208. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_fiver_5488

• Brdar-Jokanović M, Kiprovski B, Kebert M, Matić M, Sikora V. 2024. Quality parameters of ‘nugget’ type Cucurbita maxima fruits under high-temperature stress. Book of abstracts, XIII Eucarpia meeting on cucurbit genetics and breeding, 03-06.11.2024. Vico Equense (NA), Italy, p. 56. https://fiver.ifvcns.rs/handle/123456789/5259 

• Brdar-Jokanović M, Kiprovski B, Kebert M, Matić M, Sikora V. 2024. Environmental impacts on the nutritional quality of Cucurbita plants: Implications for selective breeding. Book of Abstracts of the VII Congress of the Serbian Genetic Society (Milašin J. et al., Eds.), 02-05.10, Zlatibor, Serbia, p. 235. https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_fiver_4939