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Nitrogen on cantaloupes: Fertilization tends to increase fruit size and reduce culls but does not affect mosaic infection and yield

F. W. Zink; Glen N. Davis

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Abstract

Heavy nitrogen fertilization of cantaloupes does not lessen the severity of infection caused by the mosaic virus, nor does it increase the yield of marketable fruit. It increases cantaloupe size and reduces the number of culled fruit.

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultno effectmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Heavy nitrogen fertilizer did not lessen mosaic infection severity.

Treatment
Heavy nitrogen fertilizatione0
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mosaic viruse0pathogen
Outcome
severity of infectione0
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does not lessene0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Cucumis melo var. cantalupo
Cucumis melo var. cantalupo · TaxonRasbak at Dutch Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Heavy nitrogen fertilization of cantaloupes does not lessen the severity of infection caused by the mosaic virus”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultno effectmeasured

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Heavy nitrogen fertilizer did not increase marketable fruit yield.

Treatment
Heavy nitrogen fertilizatione0
Outcome
yield of marketable fruite0
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nor does it increasee0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Cucumis melo var. cantalupo
Cucumis melo var. cantalupo · TaxonRasbak at Dutch Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“Heavy nitrogen fertilization of cantaloupes does not lessen the severity of infection caused by the mosaic virus, nor does it increase the yield of marketable fruit”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Heavy nitrogen fertilizer increased cantaloupe size.

Treatment
Heavy nitrogen fertilizatione1
Outcome
cantaloupe sizee0
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increasese0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Cucumis melo var. cantalupo
Cucumis melo var. cantalupo · TaxonRasbak at Dutch Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“It increases cantaloupe size”

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“Heavy nitrogen fertilization of cantaloupes”

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Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivemeasured

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Heavy nitrogen fertilizer reduced culled fruit count.

Treatment
Nitrogent0
Outcome
number of culled fruite0
Direction
reducese0

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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Cucumis melo var. cantalupo
Cucumis melo var. cantalupo · TaxonRasbak at Dutch Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons ↗

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“reduces the number of culled fruit”

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“Nitrogen on cantaloupes”

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