Abstract
ABSTRACT Direct seeded and transplanted muskmelons were grown during 1993 and 1994 on bare ground and on black plastic mulch in order to determine the effects of the different production systems on cumulative yields and yield components. The greatest yield component response to treatment was fruit number per unit land area. Muskmelon transplants grown with plastic mulch produced the greatest number of fruit at the first harvest each year; however, bare ground, transplant fruit numbers were not different from that treatment by the second or third harvest. Yield of the plastic, direct seeded system was similar to the plastic, transplant system in 1993, but was similar to the bare ground, direct seeded treatment in 1994. The bare ground, direct seeded treatment yielded poorly in 1993, but had total yields equal to other treatments in 1994. Treatments had no effect on fruit size or soluble solids. The results from this study indicate that the system selected for muskmelon production would largely depend on the degree of risk a grower is willing to absorb and the projected market price window for the crop.
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Claims 9
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit number per land area showed the greatest yield component response.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon
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Cucumis melot0 - Outcome
- fruit number per unit land areae0
- Direction
- greateste0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“The greatest yield component response to treatment was fruit number per unit land area”
t0“Muskmelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Transplants with plastic mulch produced the most fruit at first harvest each year.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- transplants grown with plastic mulche0
- Outcome
- number of fruite0
- Direction
- greateste0
- Qualifier
- first harvest each yeare0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Muskmelon transplants grown with plastic mulch produced the greatest number of fruit at the first harvest each year”
Claim · model-written summary
Bare ground transplant fruit numbers were similar to plastic mulch transplants by the second or third harvest.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- bare ground, transplante0
- Outcome
- fruit numberse0
- Direction
- not differente0
- Qualifier
- second or third harveste0
- Comparator
- that treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“bare ground, transplant fruit numbers were not different from that treatment by the second or third harvest”
t0“Muskmelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic direct seeding yielded similarly to plastic transplants in 1993.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- plastic, direct seeded systeme0
- Outcome
- Yielde0
- Direction
- similare0
- Qualifier
- 1993e0
- Comparator
- plastic, transplant systeme0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Yield of the plastic, direct seeded system was similar to the plastic, transplant system in 1993”
t0“Muskmelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Plastic direct seeding yielded similarly to bare ground direct seeding in 1994.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- plastic, direct seeded systeme1
- Outcome
- Yielde1
- Direction
- similare0
- Qualifier
- 1994e0
- Comparator
- bare ground, direct seeded treatmente0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“was similar to the bare ground, direct seeded treatment in 1994”
t0“Muskmelon”
e1“Yield of the plastic, direct seeded system”
Claim · model-written summary
Bare ground direct seeding yielded poorly in 1993.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- bare ground, direct seeded treatmente0
- Outcome
- yielded poorlye0
- Direction
- poorlye0
- Qualifier
- 1993e0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The bare ground, direct seeded treatment yielded poorly in 1993”
t0“Muskmelon”
Claim · model-written summary
Bare ground direct seeding had yields equal to other treatments in 1994.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- bare ground, direct seeded treatmente1
- Outcome
- total yieldse0
- Direction
- equale0
- Qualifier
- 1994e0
- Comparator
- other treatmentse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“had total yields equal to other treatments in 1994”
t0“Muskmelon”
e1“The bare ground, direct seeded treatment”
Claim · model-written summary
Production treatments did not affect fruit size or soluble solids.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- Treatmentse0
- Outcome
- fruit size or soluble solidse0
- Direction
- no effecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Treatments had no effect on fruit size or soluble solids”
t0“Muskmelon”
Claim · model-written summary
System choice should account for grower risk tolerance and projected market price window.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Outcome
- system selected for muskmelon productione0
- Qualifier
- degree of risk a grower is willing to absorb and the projected market price windowe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the system selected for muskmelon production would largely depend on the degree of risk a grower is willing to absorb and the projected market price window for the crop”
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