Claim · model-written summary
Grafting enhances fruit flesh and rind firmness and rind thickness.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Treatment
- graftinge0
- Outcome
- Fruit flesh, rind firmness, and rind thicknesse0
- Direction
- enhancede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Fruit flesh, rind firmness, and rind thickness were enhanced by grafting”
t0“Watermelon”
Title
Comprehensive Mineral Nutrition Analysis of Watermelon Grafted onto Two Different Rootstocks
Yuan Huang; Liqiang Zhao; Qiusheng Kong; et al. Horticultural Plant Journal 2016. doi:10.1016/j.hpj.2016.06.003
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Rootstock grafting significantly increases watermelon plant growth and single fruit weight.
- Intervention effect Rootstock grafting, especially onto pumpkin, increases watermelon root volume, surface area, tips and forks versus nongrafted plants.
- Intervention effect Pumpkin grafting significantly reduces fruit soluble solids and taste.
- Intervention effect Grafted plants generally have higher total uptake and concentration of six nutrients across root, stem, leaf, rind and flesh.
- Intervention effect Bottle gourd grafting increases total nutrient uptake by 30.41% during fruit development.
- Intervention effect Pumpkin grafting increases total nutrient uptake by 49.14% during fruit development.
- Intervention effect Bottle gourd grafting increases total nutrient uptake by 21.33% during fruit maturation.
- Intervention effect Pumpkin grafting increases total nutrient uptake by 47.46% during fruit maturation.