Claim · model-written summary
Fruit on pumpkin rootstock had relatively high acidity, improved by adding bottle gourd.
- Taxon
- Watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Treatment
- adding bottle gourd to the rootstocke0
- Outcome
- aciditye0
- Direction
- improvede0
- Comparator
- pumpkin rootstocke0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The low soluble solids content of the fruit grafted with a pumpkin rootstock had relatively high acidity, which could be improved by adding bottle gourd to the rootstock.”
t0“Watermelon”
Title
Effects of Dual/Threefold Rootstock Grafting on the Plant Growth, Yield and Quality of Watermelon
Yaoguo QIN; Cuiqin YANG; Jialong XIA; et al. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca 2014. doi:10.15835/nbha.42.2.9701
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Intervention effect Different grafts significantly affected the assessed watermelon properties.
- Intervention effect Appropriate dual or threefold rootstock grafting improved watermelon survival.
- Intervention effect A bottle gourd and pumpkin rootstock enhanced watermelon growth potential.
- Intervention effect A bottle gourd and pumpkin rootstock lowered wilt incidence in watermelon.
- Intervention effect Watermelon fruit weight with the combined rootstock was intermediate between the single rootstocks.
- Intervention effect Pumpkin rootstock yielded more per plot than bottle gourd rootstock.
- Observation Fruit on pumpkin rootstock had low soluble solids content.
- Intervention effect Combined rootstock produced higher watermelon fruit vitamin C content than either single rootstock.
- Intervention effect Combined rootstocks had significant interaction effects on stem diameter and leaf number.
- Intervention effect Combined rootstocks had significant interaction effects on single fruit weight, plot yield and fruit vitamin C.