Claim · model-written summary
All soil treatments increased average fruit weight of watermelon compared with the herbicide control.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatuse1 - Treatment
- soil treatmentse1
- Outcome
- average fruit weighte1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Comparator
- herbicide controle1
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Verbatim
e1“All soil treatments increased average fruit weight of watermelon compared with the herbicide control, and provided effective weed control, keeping the most predominant weed, purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus L.), density at or below 1/m row”
Title
Grafting and Paladin Pic-21 for Nematode and Weed Management in Vegetable Production
Nancy Kokalis-Burelle; David M. Butler; Jason C. Hong; et al. Journal of Nematology 2016. doi:10.21307/jofnem-2017-031
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- Intervention effect All soil treatments gave greater tomato growth than the herbicide control.
- Observation Tomato growth was similar among the soil treatments.
- Intervention effect All treatments reduced M. incognita J2 in tomato roots compared with the herbicide control.
- Observation M. incognita J2 in soil was highest in herbicide control plots and nongrafted tomato.
- Observation The number of M. incognita isolated from tomato roots did not differ among the tomato rootstocks tested.
- Observation The tomato rootstock Multifort produced the largest and healthiest roots.
- Observation Galling on tomato was highest in herbicide control plots and nongrafted plants.
- Observation In melon, M. incognita J2 in soil did not differ among melon rootstocks.
- Observation Numbers of M. incognita isolated from melon rootstocks increased in Tetsukabuto compared with C. metuliferus.
- Observation Tetsukabuto melon rootstock had larger root systems than nongrafted Athena.
- Intervention effect All fumigants protected all melon rootstocks against galling by M. incognita compared with the herbicide control.
- Intervention effect Galling on C. metuliferus rootstock was less in all fumigant treatments than on nongrafted Athena and Tetsukabuto.
- Intervention effect Watermelon yield was lower on both grafted rootstocks than on the nongrafted control.
- Observation In watermelon, M. incognita in soil and roots did not differ among soil treatments or watermelon rootstocks.
- Intervention effect Soil treatments provided effective weed control compared with the herbicide control in watermelon.
- Observation Soil treatments kept purple nutsedge density at or below 1/m row in watermelon.
- Recommendation Grafting commercial scions onto M. incognita-resistant rootstocks has potential for nematode management, alone or combined with soil treatments.