Claim · model-written summary
Grafting enhanced the average weight of muskmelon fruits.
- Taxon
- muskmelon
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Cucumis melot0 - Treatment
- this agricultural practicee6
- Outcome
- average weight of fruitse6
- Direction
- enhancede6
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
t0“muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.)”
e6“The average weight of fruits was enhanced, too, by this agricultural practice”
Title
Effect of grafting on vegetative growth and quantitative production of muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.)
A. Radhouani; A. Ferchichi Journal of Applied Horticulture 2010. doi:10.37855/jah.2010.v12i02.27
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Grafting made muskmelon more vigorous than self-rooted plants on sand and on compost.
- Intervention effect Grafting strongly improved LAI, SLA and RGR of muskmelon, particularly with the TZ148 rootstock.
- Intervention effect Grafting strongly improved NAR of muskmelon, particularly with the TZ148 rootstock.
- Intervention effect Grafted muskmelon plants had greater precocity of production.
- Intervention effect Grafted muskmelon plants produced more fruits on sand and on compost.
- Intervention effect The major part of fruits from grafted muskmelon plants weighed more than 600 g.