Claim · model-written summary
The 300 ppm SA dose gave better germination, root and shoot dry matter, fruit yield, water productivity, soluble solids and membrane stability, with performance often similar to 400 and 500 ppm.
- Taxon
- cantaloupe
Cucumis melo var. cantalupoe0 - Treatment
- 300 ppm SA priming dosee0
- Outcome
- germination rate, root and shoot dry matter, fruit yield, water productivity, total soluble solids content, and membrane stability indexe0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Comparator
- 400 and 500 ppm SA dosese0
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Verbatim
e0“The performance of cantaloupe in terms of germination rate, root and shoot dry matter, fruit yield, water productivity, total soluble solids content, and membrane stability index was better at 300 ppm SA priming dose, which was statistically similar with 400 and 500 ppm SA doses in most cases.”
Title
Ashraful Alam; Hayat Ullah; Nichakarn Thuenprom; et al. South African Journal of Botany 2022. doi:10.1016/j.sajb.2022.06.056
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Intervention effect At 50% field capacity without SA, fruit yield fell 64% relative to 100% field capacity.
- Intervention effect At 50% field capacity without SA, water productivity fell 48% relative to 100% field capacity.
- Intervention effect At 50% field capacity without SA, total soluble solids fell 22% relative to 100% field capacity.
- Intervention effect At 50% field capacity without SA, membrane stability index fell 43% relative to 100% field capacity.
- Intervention effect At 50% field capacity without SA, electrolyte leakage rose 260% relative to 100% field capacity.
- Intervention effect SA priming significantly improved germination, growth, physiological and fruit yield parameters across moisture regimes.
- Intervention effect At 50% field capacity, 300 ppm SA priming raised fruit yield 48% over nonprimed control.
- Intervention effect At 50% field capacity, 300 ppm SA priming raised water productivity 59% over nonprimed control.
- Intervention effect At 50% field capacity, 300 ppm SA priming raised membrane stability index 54% over nonprimed control.
- Intervention effect At 50% field capacity, 300 ppm SA priming raised net photosynthetic rate 153% over nonprimed control.
- Intervention effect Increasing SA dose above 300 ppm had almost no additional effect.
- Recommendation The authors regard 300 ppm SA as an optimum priming dose for productivity and economic returns under moisture deficit.