Claim · model-written summary
Wider spacing decreased early yield in 2004.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatuse0 - Treatment
- in-row plant spacinge0
- Outcome
- early yielde0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“With an increase in the in-row plant spacing the early yield of watermelon decreased in 2004”
Title
Growth and Yield Response of Watermelon to in-row Plant Spacings and Mycorrhiza
Dean Ban; Smiljana Goreta Ban; Milan Oplanic; et al. Chilean journal of agricultural research 2011. doi:10.4067/s0718-58392011000400001
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect Wider spacing increased vine length, leaf number and lateral branches quadratically in 2003.
- Intervention effect Wider spacing decreased fruit number in 2003 and 2004.
- Intervention effect Wider spacing decreased total yield and fruit number in all three years.
- Intervention effect Fruit mass increased at wider spacings in 2003.
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal inoculation increased vine length and lateral branch number in 2003.
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal plants had higher early yield in 2005.
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal plants had higher early fruit number in 2003 and 2005.
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal inoculation increased total yield in 2005.
- Intervention effect Mycorrhizal inoculation did not affect fruit weight.
- Recommendation A 1.0 m spacing gave the best early and total yield while maintaining high fruit weight.
- Recommendation The authors did not recommend routine mycorrhizal inoculation because growth and yield benefits were inconsistent.