Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude that grafting watermelon onto specific rootstocks had the potential to increase water stress tolerance.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatuse0 - Treatment
- grafting watermelon plants onto specific rootstocke0
- Outcome
- water stress tolerancee0
- Direction
- increasee0
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e0“grafting watermelon plants onto specific rootstock had the potential to increase water stress tolerance”
Title
Response of Watermelon Plants Grafted onto different Rootstocks to Deficit Irrigation
Fouad H. Mohamed Mohamed W. Elwan Hortscience Journal of Suez Canal University 2021. doi:10.21608/hjsc.2021.234769
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect In field-grown watermelon, water stress (70% and 50% ET) decreased vegetative growth (number of leaves and branches, length of the main stem) compared with the 100% ET control.
- Intervention effect Water stress decreased leaf relative water content of watermelon compared with the 100% ET control.
- Intervention effect Water stress decreased reproductive growth and fruit yield of watermelon compared with the 100% ET control.
- Intervention effect Water stress reduced N, P and K contents in watermelon leaves.
- Intervention effect Proline content and the antioxidant enzymes superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) were higher in water-stressed watermelon plants than in plants receiving 100% water.
- Intervention effect Under severe water stress, all graft combinations had generally better growth and yield performance than un-grafted watermelon plants.
- Intervention effect Aswan/Ferro grafted plants significantly recorded the lowest decline in number of fruits per plant, total yield and flesh SSC under 50% ET irrigation.
- Intervention effect Aswan/Ferro grafted plants showed the lowest decline in leaf N and P content.
- Association Increased water stress tolerance in grafted watermelon was associated with increased proline and SOD and CAT activities in the leaves.