Claim · model-written summary
Combined 80% irrigation and AMF improved firmness, SSC, and SSC/TA.
- Taxon
- melon plants
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Cucumis meloe0 - Treatment
- moderate deficit irrigation (80%) and soil inoculation with AMFe0
- Interactor
- AMFe0symbiont
- Outcome
- firmness, SSC, and SSC/TAe0
- Direction
- increasese0
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Verbatim
e0“The combined use of moderate deficit irrigation (80%) and soil inoculation with AMF on melon plants allows water savings without affecting fruit yield, and increases IWUE, NAE, and some fruit quality characteristics (firmness, SSC, and SSC/TA)”
Title
Effect of Mycorrhizal Inoculation on Melon Plants under Deficit Irrigation Regimes
Alessandro Miceli; Filippo Vetrano; Livio Torta; et al. Agronomy 2023. doi:10.3390/agronomy13020440
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Deficit irrigation reduced relative water content and stomatal conductance in uninoculated melon.
- Intervention effect Deficit irrigation reduced yield in uninoculated melon.
- Intervention effect Deficit irrigation reduced nitrogen applied efficiency (NAE) in uninoculated melon.
- Intervention effect Deficit irrigation reduced fruit firmness in uninoculated melon.
- Intervention effect Deficit irrigation increased irrigation water use efficiency (IWUE) in uninoculated melon.
- Intervention effect Deficit irrigation increased ascorbic acid content of the fruit in uninoculated melon.
- Intervention effect AMF improved tolerance to moderate water stress and fruit length, firmness, and sugar content.
- Intervention effect AMF improved fruit length.
- Intervention effect AMF improved firmness.
- Intervention effect AMF improved sugar content.
- Intervention effect Combined 80% irrigation and AMF improved water savings.
- Intervention effect Combined 80% irrigation and AMF maintained fruit yield.
- Intervention effect Combined 80% irrigation and AMF improved IWUE.
- Intervention effect Combined 80% irrigation and AMF improved NAE.
- Recommendation The authors suggest AMF to reduce yield loss and improve fruit quality even with 60% irrigation.