Claim · model-written summary
Tillage method had no significant effect on the number of fruits per plant (NFPP).
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Treatment
- tillage methode6
- Outcome
- NFPPe7
- Direction
- no significant differencese7
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Verbatim
t0“Yield Components of Watermelon”
e6“tillage method significantly (P 0.05) affected crop yield, fruit weight (FW), fruit length (FL), fruit diameter (FD) and total soluble solids (TSS)”
e7“but there was no significant differences in other components such as number of plants per hectare (NPPH) and number of fruits 1 per plant (NFPP)”
Title
Effect of Different Tillage Methods on Crop Yield and Yield Components of Watermelon
Fereydoun Keshavarzpour http://www.idosi.org/ajps/6(2)13/9.pdf 2012
Other claims from this paper (18)
- Association The conventional tillage (CT) treatment gave the maximum watermelon crop yield, 21.11 t ha.
- Association The CT treatment gave the maximum number of plants per hectare (NPPH), 2730.
- Association The CT treatment gave the maximum fruit weight (FW), 5.15 kg.
- Association The CT treatment gave the maximum fruit diameter (FD), 20.3 cm.
- Association The reduced tillage (RT) treatment gave the maximum number of fruits per plant (NFPP), 1.56.
- Association The RT treatment gave the maximum fruit length (FL), 23.0 cm.
- Association The RT treatment gave the maximum total soluble solids (TSS), 7.8%.
- Association The no-tillage (NT) treatment gave the minimum watermelon crop yield, 12.26 t ha.
- Association The NT treatment gave the minimum number of plants per hectare (NPPH), 2590.
- Association The NT treatment gave the minimum number of fruits per plant (NFPP), 1.40.
- Association The NT treatment gave the minimum fruit weight (FW), 3.38 kg.
- Association The NT treatment gave the minimum fruit length (FL), 20.7 cm.
- Association The NT treatment gave the minimum fruit diameter (FD), 17.9 cm.
- Association The MT treatment gave the minimum total soluble solids (TSS), 6.6%.
- Intervention effect Tillage method significantly affected watermelon crop yield, fruit weight and fruit length.
- Intervention effect Tillage method significantly affected watermelon fruit diameter and total soluble solids.
- Intervention effect Tillage method had no significant effect on the number of plants per hectare (NPPH).
- Recommendation Moldboard plow followed by two passes of disk harrow (CT) is the more appropriate and profitable tillage method for watermelon in the arid lands of Iran.