Claim · model-written summary
Nitrogen increased leaf area of melon through leaf number and leaf size.
- Taxon
- Melon
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Cucumis melot0 - Treatment
- Nitrogene1
- Outcome
- leaf areae3
- Direction
- increasede3
- Qualifier
- through leaf number and leaf sizee3
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleComparatorSettingValue
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Verbatim
t0“Effects of Nitrogen on Melon (Citrillus lanatus) at Ibadan, Nigeria”
e1“Nitrogen increased yields by increasing fruits/plant, seeds/fruit and seed weight”
e3“increased leaf area through leaf number and leaf size”
Title
Effects of Nitrogen on Melon (Citrillus lanatus) at Ibadan, Nigeria
E. A. Ogunremi Experimental Agriculture 1978. doi:10.1017/s0014479700009005
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Nitrogen increased melon yields.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen increased fruits per plant, seeds per fruit and seed weight.
- Intervention effect Nitrogen had no effect on fruit weight, size and husk of melon.
- Observation Melon varieties differed significantly.
- Association Leaf area declined rapidly when fruit growth occurred.
- Mechanism Mottled green melon fruits contributed appreciable assimilates to their own growth.