Claim · model-written summary
Grafted melons maintained growth and fruit set for a longer period.
- Taxon
- melons
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Cucumis meloe0 - Treatment
- grafted melonse0
- Outcome
- growth and continued to set fruite0
- Direction
- longere0
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Verbatim
e0“grafted melons maintained growth and continued to set fruit over a longer time-period, thus affording a longer market window.”
Title
GRAFTING MELONS INCREASES YIELD, HARVEST PERIOD, AND RESISTANCE TO SUDDEN WILT
Janel Louise Martin University of New Hampshire Scholars Repository (University of New Hampshire at Manchester) 2017
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- Observation Two of four rootstocks performed poorly.
- Observation NH1320 and Carnivor were chosen for follow-up studies.
- Intervention effect Non-grafted plants grew more in early growth.
- Intervention effect Non-grafted plants flowered five to eight days earlier than grafted plants.
- Intervention effect By first harvest, grafted plants had greater vegetative growth.
- Observation Non-grafted plants succumbed to sudden wilt by mid-August.
- Intervention effect At May 12 planting, grafted Halona marketable yield was 131% higher.
- Intervention effect At May 21 planting, grafted Halona marketable yield was 123% higher.
- Intervention effect At June 1 planting, grafted Halona marketable yield was 148% higher.
- Mechanism Increased yield was attributed to both fruit number and fruit size.
- Intervention effect SSC did not differ significantly between grafted and non-grafted Halona.
- Observation Grafted melon yields extrapolated to 98.6 t·ha-1 at May 12.
- Intervention effect Across five cultivars, grafted plants yielded 36% to 90% more.
- Intervention effect Sarah’s Choice and Athena grafts showed later maturity and large peak-production differences.
- Intervention effect Diplomat, Goddess and Snow Leopard grafts had a larger productivity window.
- Intervention effect Grafted plants generally had larger fruit size than non-grafted plants.
- Intervention effect Snow Leopard fruit size was similar with and without grafting.
- Intervention effect Diplomat grafts had higher SSC than non-grafted Diplomat.
- Intervention effect Grafted plants had sustained vigorous growth and higher fresh-weight yield.