Claim · model-written summary
Highly skewed nutrient ratios reduced flower numbers and reward quantity.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativuse0 - Treatment
- highly skewed nitrogen:phosphorus soil ratiose1
- Outcome
- numbers of flowers and reward quantitye1
- Direction
- reducede1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“cucumber pollination success”
e1“highly skewed nitrogen:phosphorus soil ratios reduced plant fitness via reduced numbers of flowers and reward quantity, pollinator attraction, and ultimately yield”
Title
Anthony D. Vaudo; Emily Erickson; Harland M. Patch; et al. Scientific Reports 2022. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-26164-4
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Increasing nitrogen and phosphorus increased cucumber growth and floral display.
- Intervention effect Excess nitrogen produced an asymptotic or negative effect, mitigated by phosphorus.
- Association Male floral traits were more plastic to soil nutrients than female flowers.
- Intervention effect At a 4:1 nitrogen to phosphorus ratio, male flower nectar volume and pollen number increased.
- Association At a 4:1 nitrogen to phosphorus ratio, bumble bee visitation increased.
- Intervention effect Nectar sugar composition remained consistent across soil treatments.
- Intervention effect Female nectar volume remained consistent across soil treatments.
- Intervention effect Pollen protein and lipid concentrations remained consistent across soil treatments.
- Intervention effect Highly skewed nutrient ratios reduced pollinator attraction and yield.