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Seed number per fruit of pumpkin was significantly higher at -1.2 MPa than at -0.3 MPa.
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e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e5“On the other hand, seed per fruit was increased significantly at -1.2 MPa as compared to -0.3 MPa water deficiency”
Title
Vahideh Biyare; Farid Shekari; Saeid Seifzadeh; et al. DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) 2020. doi:10.30495/jcep.2020.676137
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- Intervention effect Increasing water deficiency reduced RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids content of pumpkin.
- Intervention effect Increasing water deficiency reduced plant height, nodes and branches per plant, and fruit yield of pumpkin.
- Intervention effect Increasing water deficiency reduced fruit diameter, seed yield and number of seeds per fruit of pumpkin.
- Intervention effect Increasing water deficiency reduced the weight of 1000 seeds of pumpkin.
- Intervention effect Increasing water deficiency increased the diameter of pumpkin mesocarp, especially at -1.8 MPa.
- Intervention effect Spraying salicylic acid increased RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids contents of pumpkin significantly.
- Intervention effect Spraying salicylic acid increased plant height, nodes and branches per plant, and fruit yield of pumpkin significantly.
- Intervention effect Spraying salicylic acid increased diameter of fruit, seed yield and number of seeds per fruit of pumpkin significantly.
- Intervention effect Spraying salicylic acid increased the weight of 1000 seeds of pumpkin significantly.
- Intervention effect The highest salicylic acid effect on pumpkin was at 1.5 mM.
- Intervention effect Most traits of pumpkin showed significant reduction at -1.8 MPa water deficiency.
- Intervention effect Leaf water content and plant height of pumpkin were reduced at -1.2 MPa.
- Intervention effect Chlorophyll a, b and total chlorophyll content of pumpkin were reduced at -1.2 MPa.
- Intervention effect Nodes per plant, number of branches and mesocarp diameter of pumpkin were reduced at -1.2 MPa.
- Mechanism Increased seed number per fruit at -1.2 MPa was due to reduced mesocarp diameter and weight.
- Mechanism Water deficiency probably shifted assimilates from the fruit to the seeds.
- Mechanism Seed number per fruit and number of fruit per land area had the most effect on pumpkin yield formation.
- Observation Seed weight of pumpkin showed no significant variation.
- Intervention effect Pumpkin may be considered tolerant to soil suction down to -1.2 MPa, without a significant reduction in seed yield.