Claim · model-written summary
At moderate deficit irrigation, crop water productivity was similar or 47 % higher than under full irrigation.
- Taxon
- melons
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Cucumis melot0 - Treatment
- Moderate deficit irrigatione0
- Outcome
- CWPe0
- Direction
- increasee0
- Value
- 47 %e0
- Comparator
- full irrigatione0
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Verbatim
e0“Moderate deficit irrigation reduced water applied by 25 % and had either a similar or a 47 % increase in CWP compared to the full irrigation”
t0“cantaloupe melons”
Title
Implementation of deficit irrigation to improve crop water productivity in cantaloupe melons
Heinrich di Santo; Felipe Barrios-Masias The Journal of Agricultural Science 2026. doi:10.1017/s0021859626100665
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect At 70 % FC, stomatal conductance was 34 % lower than under full irrigation.
- Intervention effect At 70 % FC, photosynthetic rate was 14 % lower than under full irrigation.
- Intervention effect At 70 % FC, water potential was similar to full irrigation.
- Intervention effect At 50 % FC, predawn water potential was 28 % lower than under full irrigation.
- Intervention effect At 50 % FC, midday water potential was 17 % lower than under full irrigation.
- Intervention effect At 50 % FC, stomatal conductance was 65 % lower than at 100 % FC.
- Intervention effect At 50 % FC, photosynthetic rate was 47 % lower than at 100 % FC.
- Intervention effect At 50 % FC, yield was 40 % lower than under full irrigation.
- Intervention effect At moderate deficit irrigation, water applied fell by 25 %.
- Intervention effect Grafting improved yield by 14 %, especially under full irrigation and low stress.
- Recommendation Moderate deficit irrigation is recommended as a water-saving strategy for melons.