Claim · model-written summary
Closer 1 ft spacing increased sponge gourd fruit diameter by 20.8% compared with wider spacing.
- Taxon
- sponge gourd
Luffa aegyptiacat0 - Treatment
- Closer spacing (1 ft)e2
- Outcome
- fruit diametere1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Value
- 20.8%e1
- Comparator
- wider spacinge3
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Verbatim
t0“sponge gourd”
e1“It also increased female flower percentage (18.1%), flower diameter (21.4%), fruit set (31.4%), fruit diameter (20.8%), and fruits per plant (55%)”
e2“Closer spacing (1 ft)”
e3“compared to wider spacing”
Title
Syed Mohsin Abbas; Raina Ijaz; Tanveer Hussain; et al. Scientific Reports 2026. doi:10.1038/s41598-026-50235-5
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Closer 1 ft spacing significantly improved sponge gourd germination by 8.1% compared with wider spacing.
- Intervention effect Closer 1 ft spacing significantly improved sponge gourd seedling vigor index by 15.9% compared with wider spacing.
- Intervention effect Closer 1 ft spacing significantly improved sponge gourd plant height by 12% compared with wider spacing.
- Intervention effect Closer 1 ft spacing significantly improved sponge gourd leaf area index by 58.3% compared with wider spacing.
- Intervention effect Closer 1 ft spacing significantly improved sponge gourd crop growth rate by 79.8% compared with wider spacing.
- Intervention effect Closer 1 ft spacing increased sponge gourd female flower percentage by 18.1% compared with wider spacing.
- Intervention effect Closer 1 ft spacing increased sponge gourd flower diameter by 21.4% compared with wider spacing.
- Intervention effect Closer 1 ft spacing increased sponge gourd fruit set by 31.4% compared with wider spacing.
- Intervention effect Closer 1 ft spacing increased the number of sponge gourd fruits per plant by 55% compared with wider spacing.
- Intervention effect Sponge gourd fruit yield was about 28.1% higher under 1 ft spacing.
- Intervention effect Closer 1 ft spacing increased sponge gourd nitrogen uptake by 12.2%.
- Intervention effect Closer 1 ft spacing increased sponge gourd phosphorus uptake by 19.2%.
- Intervention effect Closer 1 ft spacing came with corresponding improvements in sponge gourd nutrient uptake efficiency.
- Intervention effect Wider 2 ft spacing increased sponge gourd quantum yield by 9%.
- Intervention effect Wider 2 ft spacing increased sponge gourd linear electron flow by 3.5%.
- Recommendation The authors conclude that closer intra-row spacing is a practical strategy to meet future food demands by maximizing land use efficiency in cucurbit cultivation.