Abstract
Interactive effects of water stress and potassium (K) on some physiological attributes and nutritional status of melon (Cucumis melo L. cv. ‘Tempo F1’) plants were assessed in a pot experiment. Treatments used were: (1) control or well-watered (WW) + K1, (2) WW + K2, (3) WW + K3, (4) water stress (WS) + K1, (5) WS + K2, and (6) WS + K3. Water stress (WS) was imposed by maintaining the moisture level equivalent to 50% pot capacity, whereas well-watered (WW) pots (control) were maintained at full pot capacity (100% PC). Hoagland's nutrient solution was modified to supply K as potassium sulfate (K2SO4) at 6, 9, and 12 mM for K1, K2, and K3 treatments, respectively. Water stress reduced fruit yield, total dry matter, chlorophyll content and relative water content (RWC), but increased proline accumulation in the melon plants. However, additional supply of K as 3 or 6 mM significantly enhanced all the earlier mentioned physiological parameters, but the values were still not the same as the levels of the control treatment. Water stress also reduced leaf calcium (Ca) and K of the melon plants, but additional supply of K to the root zone increased the levels of both nutrients much higher than those at the control (C) treatment. Our study revealed that additional supply of K improved water stress tolerance in melon plants by enhancing chlorophyll, relative water content and concentrations of some essential nutrients in leaves.
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Claim · model-written summary
Water stress reduced fruit yield and total dry matter of melon plants.
- Taxon
- melon plants
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Cucumis meloe0 - Treatment
- Water stresse0
- Outcome
- fruit yield, total dry mattere0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- well-waterede1
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e0“Water stress reduced fruit yield, total dry matter, chlorophyll content and relative water content (RWC), but increased proline accumulation in the melon plants”
e1“well-watered (WW) pots (control)”
Claim · model-written summary
Water stress reduced chlorophyll content and relative water content of melon plants.
- Taxon
- melon plantsCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- Water stresse0
- Outcome
- chlorophyll content and relative water content (RWC)e0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- well-waterede1
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e0“Water stress reduced fruit yield, total dry matter, chlorophyll content and relative water content (RWC), but increased proline accumulation in the melon plants”
e1“well-watered (WW) pots (control)”
Claim · model-written summary
Water stress increased proline accumulation in melon plants.
- Taxon
- melon plantsCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- Water stresse0
- Outcome
- proline accumulatione0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- well-waterede1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Water stress reduced fruit yield, total dry matter, chlorophyll content and relative water content (RWC), but increased proline accumulation in the melon plants”
e1“well-watered (WW) pots (control)”
Claim · model-written summary
Additional K supply of 3 or 6 mM significantly enhanced all the earlier mentioned physiological parameters (yield, dry matter, chlorophyll, relative water content, proline) of water-stressed melon plants, though values stayed below the control.
- Taxon
- melonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- additional supply of K as 3 or 6 mMe0
- Outcome
- all the earlier mentioned physiological parameterse0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Qualifier
- values were still not the same as the levels of the control treatmente0
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e0“additional supply of K as 3 or 6 mM significantly enhanced all the earlier mentioned physiological parameters, but the values were still not the same as the levels of the control treatment”
t0“MELON”
Claim · model-written summary
Water stress reduced leaf calcium and potassium of melon plants.
- Taxon
- melon plantsCucumis meloe0
- Organ / stage
- leafe0
- Treatment
- Water stresse0
- Outcome
- leaf calcium (Ca) and Ke0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- well-waterede1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Water stress also reduced leaf calcium (Ca) and K of the melon plants”
e1“well-watered (WW) pots (control)”
Claim · model-written summary
Additional K supply to the root zone increased leaf Ca and K of melon plants to levels much higher than the control treatment.
- Taxon
- melonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- additional supply of K to the root zonee0
- Outcome
- levels of both nutrientse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Comparator
- control (C) treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“additional supply of K to the root zone increased the levels of both nutrients much higher than those at the control (C) treatment”
t0“MELON”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors conclude that additional K improved water stress tolerance in melon by enhancing chlorophyll, relative water content and concentrations of some essential leaf nutrients.
- Taxon
- melon plantsCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- additional supply of Ke0
- Outcome
- water stress tolerancee0
- Qualifier
- enhancing chlorophyll, relative water content and concentrations of some essential nutrients in leavese0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“additional supply of K improved water stress tolerance in melon plants by enhancing chlorophyll, relative water content and concentrations of some essential nutrients in leaves”
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