Abstract
The objective of this study is to determine the sugar, organic acid, and carotenoid content of Crimson Tide watermelons grafted onto bottle gourd genotypes collected from the Mediterranean region of Turkey. The experiment was carried out during the 2008 and 2009 growing season. Grafting on the local bottle gourd rootstocks improved the total soluble solid (TSS), titratable acidity (TA), TSS/TA ratio, sugar, organic acid, and carotenoid (beta-carotene and lycopene) contents of Crimson Tide fruits. Grafting also altered the ratios among the sugars of Crimson Tide watermelon fruits. Among the Crimson Tide/rootstock (CT/rootstock) combinations, the CT/09-01 and CT/07-06 graft combinations with higher sucrose, lycopene, and total carotenoid content were found promising to increase the quality of Crimson Tide fruits. Commercial rootstocks (Macis and Argentario) reduced carotenoid content compared to the control.
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Claims 5
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting on local bottle gourd rootstocks improved total soluble solids, titratable acidity and the TSS/TA ratio of watermelon fruit.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatuse0 - Material
- Crimson Tidee0
- Organ / stage
- fruitse2
- Treatment
- Grafting on the local bottle gourd rootstockse2
- Outcome
- total soluble solid (TSS), titratable acidity (TA), TSS/TA ratioe2
- Direction
- improvede2
- Setting
- Mediterranean region of Turkeye0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“The objective of this study is to determine the sugar, organic acid, and carotenoid content of Crimson Tide watermelons grafted onto bottle gourd genotypes collected from the Mediterranean region of Turkey”
e2“Grafting on the local bottle gourd rootstocks improved the total soluble solid (TSS), titratable acidity (TA), TSS/TA ratio, sugar, organic acid, and carotenoid (beta-carotene and lycopene) contents of Crimson Tide fruits”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting on local bottle gourd rootstocks improved sugar, organic acid and carotenoid contents of watermelon fruit.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatuse0
- Material
- Crimson Tidee0
- Organ / stage
- fruitse2
- Treatment
- Grafting on the local bottle gourd rootstockse2
- Outcome
- sugar, organic acid, and carotenoid (beta-carotene and lycopene) contentse2
- Direction
- improvede2
- Setting
- Mediterranean region of Turkeye0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The objective of this study is to determine the sugar, organic acid, and carotenoid content of Crimson Tide watermelons grafted onto bottle gourd genotypes collected from the Mediterranean region of Turkey”
e2“Grafting on the local bottle gourd rootstocks improved the total soluble solid (TSS), titratable acidity (TA), TSS/TA ratio, sugar, organic acid, and carotenoid (beta-carotene and lycopene) contents of Crimson Tide fruits”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting altered the ratios among the sugars of watermelon fruit.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatuse3
- Material
- Crimson Tidee3
- Organ / stage
- fruitse3
- Treatment
- Graftinge3
- Outcome
- ratios among the sugarse3
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e3“Grafting also altered the ratios among the sugars of Crimson Tide watermelon fruits”
Claim · model-written summary
The CT/09-01 and CT/07-06 graft combinations had higher sucrose, lycopene and total carotenoid content in watermelon fruit.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatuse0
- Material
- CT/09-01 and CT/07-06e4
- Organ / stage
- fruitse4
- Treatment
- CT/09-01 and CT/07-06 graft combinationse4
- Outcome
- sucrose, lycopene, and total carotenoid contente4
- Direction
- highere4
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The objective of this study is to determine the sugar, organic acid, and carotenoid content of Crimson Tide watermelons grafted onto bottle gourd genotypes collected from the Mediterranean region of Turkey”
e4“Among the Crimson Tide/rootstock (CT/rootstock) combinations, the CT/09-01 and CT/07-06 graft combinations with higher sucrose, lycopene, and total carotenoid content were found promising to increase the quality of Crimson Tide fruits”
Claim · model-written summary
Commercial rootstocks Macis and Argentario reduced carotenoid content of watermelon compared with the control.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatuse0
- Material
- Macis and Argentarioe5
- Treatment
- Commercial rootstocks (Macis and Argentario)e5
- Outcome
- carotenoid contente5
- Direction
- reducede5
- Comparator
- the controle5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The objective of this study is to determine the sugar, organic acid, and carotenoid content of Crimson Tide watermelons grafted onto bottle gourd genotypes collected from the Mediterranean region of Turkey”
e5“Commercial rootstocks (Macis and Argentario) reduced carotenoid content compared to the control”
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