Claim · model-written summary
Untreated watermelon seeds had 6.5% seedling disease incidence.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatuse0 - Interactor
- Acidovorax citrulliParacidovorax citrullie1pathogen
- Outcome
- Seedling disease incidencee0
- Value
- 6.5%e0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Seedling disease incidence of untreated seeds were 6.5% for watermelon”
e1“Bacterial fruit blotch (BFB), caused by the seed-transmitted pathogen Acidovorax citrulli”
Title
Yuxi Wang; Yanhong Qiu; Yu Lu; et al. Seed Science and Technology 2023. doi:10.15258/sst.2023.51.2.05
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation The two biocontrol strains had significant antagonistic activity against Acidovorax citrulli.
- Intervention effect Seed priming improved melon germination percentage.
- Intervention effect Ba-2 priming gave watermelon seedlings greater uniformity than other treatments.
- Observation Untreated melon seeds had 16.0% seedling disease incidence.
- Intervention effect Water priming produced disease progress curves similar to untreated controls.
- Intervention effect Ba-2 priming significantly reduced watermelon seedling BFB incidence.
- Intervention effect 2P24 priming significantly reduced melon seedling BFB incidence.
- Intervention effect 2P24 priming outperformed Ba-2 on naturally infested watermelon seeds.
- Intervention effect 2P24 priming reduced watermelon seedling disease incidence to 1.3%.