Claim · model-written summary
Bottle gourd grafting increases total nutrient uptake by 21.33% during fruit maturation.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Organ / stage
- fruit maturation stagee0
- Treatment
- grafted onto bottle gourde0
- Outcome
- total uptake of nutrientse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 21.33%e0
- Comparator
- non-grafted plantse0
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Verbatim
e0“The total uptake of nutrients of plants grafted onto bottle gourd and pumpkin was increased by 30.41% and 49.14% at fruit development stage and by 21.33% and 47.46% at fruit maturation stage, respectively, compared with non-grafted plants”
t0“Watermelon”
Title
Comprehensive Mineral Nutrition Analysis of Watermelon Grafted onto Two Different Rootstocks
Yuan Huang; Liqiang Zhao; Qiusheng Kong; et al. Horticultural Plant Journal 2016. doi:10.1016/j.hpj.2016.06.003
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Rootstock grafting significantly increases watermelon plant growth and single fruit weight.
- Intervention effect Rootstock grafting, especially onto pumpkin, increases watermelon root volume, surface area, tips and forks versus nongrafted plants.
- Intervention effect Grafting enhances fruit flesh and rind firmness and rind thickness.
- Intervention effect Pumpkin grafting significantly reduces fruit soluble solids and taste.
- Intervention effect Grafted plants generally have higher total uptake and concentration of six nutrients across root, stem, leaf, rind and flesh.
- Intervention effect Bottle gourd grafting increases total nutrient uptake by 30.41% during fruit development.
- Intervention effect Pumpkin grafting increases total nutrient uptake by 49.14% during fruit development.
- Intervention effect Pumpkin grafting increases total nutrient uptake by 47.46% during fruit maturation.