Claim · model-written summary
Water deficit significantly increased soluble sugar.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Treatment
- Water deficit treatmentse0
- Outcome
- soluble sugare0
- Direction
- increasede0
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Verbatim
e0“Water deficit treatments significantly increased the contents of soluble solids (SS), soluble sugar (SU), vitamin C (Vc), and soluble protein (SP)”
t0“watermelon”
Title
Zhiyuan Liu; Hengjia Zhang; Shouchao Yu; et al. Frontiers in Plant Science 2025. doi:10.3389/fpls.2025.1662575
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Water deficit significantly reduced leaf net photosynthetic rate.
- Intervention effect Water deficit significantly reduced leaf transpiration rate.
- Intervention effect Water deficit significantly reduced leaf stomatal conductance.
- Association Physiological reductions increased with water deficit severity, with photosynthetic rate falling less than transpiration or conductance.
- Intervention effect All deficit treatments increased irrigation water use efficiency against CK.
- Intervention effect T2 achieved highest irrigation water use efficiency at 0.78 t·ha -1 ·mm -1, 10.50% above CK.
- Intervention effect T1 had the highest yield without a significant difference from CK.
- Intervention effect T2 followed T1 in yield without a significant difference.
- Intervention effect Water deficit significantly increased soluble solids.
- Intervention effect Water deficit significantly increased vitamin C.
- Intervention effect Water deficit significantly increased soluble protein.
- Observation T2 had the largest increase in measured fruit quality contents.
- Method / resource T2 had the highest comprehensive evaluation score, followed by T1.
- Recommendation Authors recommend T2 or T1 to improve water use efficiency and fruit quality while maintaining yield.