Claim · model-written summary
The authors identify potential to select C. pepo for better high-temperature female flower development.
- Taxon
- C. pepo
Cucurbita pepoe0 - Outcome
- selecting for improved high temperature female flower developmente0
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Verbatim
e0“There is scope for selecting for improved high temperature female flower development among C. pepo cultivars”
Title
Flower Development and Yield of Cucurbita in Four Locations Differing in Temperature
H.C. Wien; S. Cady; D.N. Maynard; et al. HortScience 1998. doi:10.21273/hortsci.33.3.543d
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect High greenhouse temperatures caused female flower bud necrosis in Cucurbita pepo.
- Intervention effect High temperatures delayed anthesis and fruit set in Cucurbita pepo.
- Observation First fruit formed at node 17 in Ithaca and Albany and later at node 24 in Wye.
- Observation First fruit formed at node 26 or more at Bradenton.
- Observation C. pepo fruit yields ranged from 45 to 85 mt·ha –1 outside Bradenton.
- Observation C. pepo fruit yields ranged from 7 to 35 tons at Bradenton.
- Observation Appalachian had the smallest yield decline at Bradenton in hot 1996.
- Observation Howden and Baby Bear had the largest yield decline at Bradenton in hot 1996.
- Observation C. maxima Prize Winner yielded well across all locations.