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Pointed gourd or Trichosanthes dioica Roxb., is a genus of family cucurbitaceae. The plant is annual or perennial herb distributed in tropical Asia and Australia. Pointed gourd is thought to be originated in the Indian subcontinent or Indo-Malayan region (Singh and Whitehead, 1999; Rai et al., 2008; Mythili and Thomas 1999; Nayak et al., 2016). T. dioica is one of the most consumed species of Trichosanthes genus in the Asian tropical countries particularly in Bangladesh and India (Kumar and Singh, 2011). Major pointed gourd cultivating countries are Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka (Renner and Pandey, 2013; Mehta and Sharma, 2012). In India it is cultivated throughout the plain of Northern India, including Assam and Bengal. Kirtikar and Basu (2001) reported some common names of pointed gourd as parwal, palwal, parmal, patol, and potala. About 316,000 metric tons of pointed gourd was cultivated on 20,000 hectares of land in India during 2017-18 (Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, 2019). The fruits and leaves (the main edible parts of the plant) are cooked in various ways (Singh and Whitehead, 1999). The plant is dioecious, and grows as vines that are thick like a pencil. The leaves are dark green, rough on both surfaces, ovate, cordate, oblong and rigid. Roots are tuberous with long tap root system (Maurya, 1985).