Claim · model-written summary
Bottle gourd rootstock could enhance watermelon lycopene and ascorbic acid contents.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatuse0 - Treatment
- use of bottle gourd (Lagenaria spp.) rootstocke0
- Outcome
- lycopene and ascorbic acid contentse0
- Direction
- enhancee0
- Qualifier
- coulde0
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Verbatim
e0“This study showed that use of bottle gourd (Lagenaria spp.) rootstock could enhance soluble solids, fructose, sucrose, lycopene and ascorbic acid contents in watermelon.”
Title
Some biochemical characteristics of grafted watermelon
Aylin C. Oluk; Veysel Aras; Erdal Ağçam; et al. Indian Journal of Horticulture 2017. doi:10.5958/0974-0112.2017.00017.2
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Observation Argentario/TP84 had the highest fructose, sucrose and soluble solids contents.
- Observation TP84 had the highest glucose content.
- Observation Total carotenoid content ranged from 15.36 ± 2.78 to 104.51 ± 12.04 mg kg−1.
- Observation Argentario/TP84 had the highest lycopene level, 93.95 mg kg−1.
- Observation β-carotene content ranged from 1.44 ± 0.01 to 3.76 ± 0.01 mg kg−1.
- Observation Argentario/TP84 had the highest ascorbic acid content, 17.26 mg kg−1.
- Observation Argentario/5299 followed Argentario/TP84 in ascorbic acid content at 17.26 mg kg−1.
- Intervention effect Grafting significantly increased soluble solids and total carotenoid contents.
- Intervention effect Grafting significantly increased fructose, glucose and sucrose contents.
- Intervention effect Grafting significantly increased ascorbic acid contents.
- Observation Maximus/Ant09 had the highest total carotenoids and lycopene among C. maxima × C. moschata combinations.
- Observation Maximus/Ant09 had the lowest fructose, sucrose and soluble solids among C. maxima × C. moschata combinations.
- Observation Argentario/TP84 had the highest total carotenoids and β-carotene among cultivars and combinations.
- Intervention effect Bottle gourd rootstock could enhance watermelon soluble solids, fructose and sucrose contents.