Claim · model-written summary
Sugar Baby on Tetsukabuto had the highest fruit weight per plant at Eltopia and Mount Vernon.
- Taxon
- Watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Treatment
- ‘Sugar Baby’ grafted onto ‘Tetsukabuto’e0
- Outcome
- fruit weight per plante0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Comparator
- nongrafted ‘Sugar Baby’e1
- Setting
- Eltopia and Mount Vernone0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“‘Sugar Baby’ grafted onto ‘Tetsukabuto’ had the highest fruit weight per plant at Eltopia and Mount Vernon”
e1“nongrafted ‘Sugar Baby’ was included as the control”
t0“Watermelon”
Title
Jesse Wimer; Debra Inglis; Carol Miles HortScience 2015. doi:10.21273/hortsci.50.9.1332
Other claims from this paper (12)
- Observation V. dahliae soil density differed across the three sites.
- Observation AUDPC differed significantly among treatments at Eltopia and Mount Vernon.
- Observation Nongrafted Sugar Baby had the highest AUDPC at all three sites.
- Intervention effect Sugar Baby on Tetsukabuto had the lowest AUDPC at Eltopia and Mount Vernon.
- Observation Nongrafted Sugar Baby had the lowest fruit weight per plant at all sites.
- Observation Marketable fruit weight per plant did not differ among treatments at Othello.
- Association Yield was negatively correlated with AUDPC at Eltopia and Mount Vernon.
- Intervention effect Fruit number was significantly affected only at Eltopia, where Tetsukabuto exceeded most treatments.
- Intervention effect Grafting did not affect flesh firmness, soluble solids or lycopene at Othello or Eltopia, apart from a firmness exception.
- Intervention effect Marvel and Titan grafts increased flesh firmness over nongrafted Sugar Baby at Eltopia.
- Observation V. dahliae microsclerotia were observed in all sampled plants.
- Recommendation The authors conclude grafting can manage wilt when V. dahliae soil density exceeds 5.0 cfu/g.