Claim · model-written summary
Interspecific hybrid squash rootstocks reduced watermelon disease incidence versus nongrafted controls.
- Taxon
- Watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Treatment
- Grafting to interspecific hybrid squash rootstockse0
- Outcome
- disease incidencee0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Qualifier
- 2018 and 2019e0
- Comparator
- nongrafted controlse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“Grafting to interspecific hybrid squash rootstocks reduced disease incidence compared with nongrafted controls in 2018 and 2019.”
t0“Watermelon”
Title
Sean M. Toporek; Anthony P. Keinath Plant Disease 2020. doi:10.1094/pdis-03-20-0474-re
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Observation Watermelon was more susceptible to Pythium than bottle gourd at 20 and 30°C.
- Observation Watermelon was more susceptible to Pythium than interspecific hybrid squash at 20 and 30°C.
- Observation Interspecific hybrid squash was less susceptible than bottle gourd and watermelon in two years.
- Intervention effect Mefenoxam at transplanting did not affect watermelon disease versus untreated plots.
- Intervention effect propamocarb at transplanting did not affect watermelon disease versus untreated plots.
- Intervention effect Camelforce grafting increased total and marketable watermelon fruit numbers in 2019.
- Intervention effect Camelforce grafting increased total watermelon fruit weight in 2019.