Claim · model-written summary
Fruit set decreased from 0.84 ± 0.04 in controls to 0.61 ± 0.02 under 50 ppm zinc.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativuse1 - Treatment
- 50 ppm Zne0
- Outcome
- Fruit set (%)e0
- Direction
- decreasede0
- Value
- 0.61 ± 0.02e0
- Qualifier
- 0.84 ± 0.04e0
- Comparator
- control plantse0
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Verbatim
e0“Fruit set (%) decreased from 0.84 ± 0.04 in control plants to 0.61 ± 0.02 under 50 ppm Zn.”
e1“cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)”
Title
Ömer Faruk Coşkun; Alim Aydın; Hakan Başak; et al. BMC Plant Biology 2025. doi:10.1186/s12870-025-07709-x
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- Intervention effect Grafted cucumber had 21.5% greater shoot length than nongrafted controls.
- Intervention effect Grafted cucumber had 27.3% higher fresh root weight than nongrafted controls.
- Intervention effect Under 50 ppm zinc, grafted plants maintained chlorophyll at 1.42 ± 0.03 mg g⁻¹ FW.
- Intervention effect Under 50 ppm zinc, chlorophyll in nongrafted plants declined to 1.18 ± 0.07 mg g⁻¹ FW.
- Observation ISSR band shifts averaged 91% polymorphism and were interpreted as stress genotoxicity proxies.
- Method / resource PCA showed moderate treatment separation among grafted plants.
- Method / resource Random Forest yield regression reached fivefold cross-validated R² of 0.64.
- Method / resource Fruit curvature, root dry weight, and plant height were the strongest yield predictors.
- Method / resource The index ranked TZ148-Cagla most zinc tolerant, retaining 25% of control yield under 50 ppm zinc.
- Mechanism The authors concluded that grafting improved zinc tolerance while maintaining yield stability.