Claim · model-written summary
Early sowing enhanced melon growth and seed yield.
- Taxon
- melon
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Cucumis meloe0 - Treatment
- early sowinge0
- Outcome
- growth and seed yield of melone0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Comparator
- late sowinge0
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Verbatim
e0“The rhizosphere fungi and bacterial populations, growth and seed yield of melon and soil moisture content were generally enhanced by early sowing compared with late sowing of melon in both cropping systems.”
Title
F. O. Olasantan; O. A. Babalola Biological Agriculture & Horticulture 2007. doi:10.1080/01448765.2007.9755036
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Intervention effect Intercropping did not reduce maize or cassava growth and yields.
- Intervention effect Intercropping reduced melon growth and yields regardless of sowing date.
- Intervention effect Maize mixed stands reduced melon seed yield and components by 18–66%.
- Intervention effect Cassava mixed stands reduced melon seed yield and components by 8–31%.
- Intervention effect Early sowing enhanced melon rhizosphere fungal and bacterial populations.
- Intervention effect Early melon sowing enhanced soil moisture.
- Intervention effect Late sowing reduced melon seed yield more than early sowing, especially in intercropping.
- Intervention effect Late sowing significantly reduced melon fruit number, seeds per fruit and seed yield across cropping systems.
- Intervention effect Melon intercropping lowered soil temperature by 3.6–10.4 °C.
- Intervention effect Melon intercropping lowered soil bulk density by 0.09–0.16 g cm3.
- Intervention effect Melon intercropping raised soil moisture by 12–45 g kg1.
- Intervention effect Melon intercropping increased maize rhizosphere fungal and bacterial populations by 10–20%.
- Intervention effect Melon intercropping increased cassava rhizosphere fungal and bacterial populations by 38–46%.
- Observation Land equivalent ratios exceeded 1 for all crop combinations and sowing dates.
- Intervention effect Early melon sowing increased maize/melon mixture productivity by 46–55%.
- Intervention effect Early melon sowing increased cassava/melon mixture productivity by 69–75%.