Abstract
"There is an interest in the knowledge about the fertilizing requirements of melon crops, explored at Pólo Agroindustrial Assú/Mossoró/Baraúnas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, aiming at obtaining high productivity levels for quality fruits, reducing fertilizer wastes, and decreasing environmental degradation. The objective of this work was to evaluate the effects of applications of nitrogen (urea) and potassium doses (potassium chloride) on yield and quality of Gold Mine, yellow melon fruits under drip irrigation. Nitrogen doses (0, 50, 100, and 150 kg N ha-1) were combined in a factorial arrangement with potassium doses (0, 50, 100, and 150 kg K2O ha-1) and applied in a randomized complete block design with five replications. Nitrogen increased the number and total mass of fruits, number of marketable melon fruits, and fruit length/width shape ratio; decreased pulp firmness; but did not change pulp total soluble solids content. These effects were independent from potassium doses, which did not influence the evaluated characteristics."
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Claims 4
Claim · model-written summary
Nitrogen increased melon fruit number, total mass, marketable fruit number and fruit shape ratio.
- Taxon
- MELON
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Cucumis melot0 - Treatment
- Nitrogene0
- Outcome
- number and total mass of fruits, number of marketable melon fruits, and fruit length/width shape ratioe0
- Direction
- increasede0
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e0“Nitrogen increased the number and total mass of fruits, number of marketable melon fruits, and fruit length/width shape ratio”
t0“MELON FRUITS”
Claim · model-written summary
Nitrogen decreased melon pulp firmness.
- Taxon
- MELONCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- Nitrogene1
- Outcome
- pulp firmnesse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
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Verbatim
e0“decreased pulp firmness”
e1“Nitrogen increased”
t0“MELON FRUITS”
Claim · model-written summary
Nitrogen did not change melon pulp total soluble solids content.
- Taxon
- MELONCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- Nitrogene0
- Outcome
- pulp total soluble solids contente0
- Direction
- did not changee0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Nitrogen increased the number and total mass of fruits, number of marketable melon fruits, and fruit length/width shape ratio; decreased pulp firmness; but did not change pulp total soluble solids content”
t0“MELON FRUITS”
Claim · model-written summary
Potassium doses did not influence the evaluated melon characteristics.
- Taxon
- MELONCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- potassium dosese0
- Outcome
- evaluated characteristicse0
- Direction
- did not influencee0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“potassium doses, which did not influence the evaluated characteristics”
t0“MELON FRUITS”
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