Abstract
SUMMARY Three experiments testing the effects of nitrogen on melon showed significant varietal differences. Nitrogen increased yields by increasing fruits/plant, seeds/fruit and seed weight, had no effect on fruit weight, size and husk, and increased leaf area through leaf number and leaf size. Fruit growth coincided with a rapid decline in leaf area, indicating that the mottled green fruits contributed appreciable assimilates towards their own growth. The implications of the findings, and the inefficiency of the crop in seed formation, are discussed.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Nitrogen increased melon yields.
- Taxon
- Melon
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Cucumis melot0 - Treatment
- Nitrogene1
- Outcome
- yieldse1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Setting
- Ibadan, Nigeriat0
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Verbatim
t0“Effects of Nitrogen on Melon (Citrillus lanatus) at Ibadan, Nigeria”
e1“Nitrogen increased yields by increasing fruits/plant, seeds/fruit and seed weight”
Claim · model-written summary
Nitrogen increased fruits per plant, seeds per fruit and seed weight.
- Taxon
- MelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- Nitrogene1
- Outcome
- fruits/plant, seeds/fruit and seed weighte1
- Direction
- increasinge1
Not reportedComparator
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t0“Effects of Nitrogen on Melon (Citrillus lanatus) at Ibadan, Nigeria”
e1“Nitrogen increased yields by increasing fruits/plant, seeds/fruit and seed weight”
Claim · model-written summary
Nitrogen had no effect on fruit weight, size and husk of melon.
- Taxon
- MelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- Nitrogene1
- Outcome
- fruit weight, size and huske2
- Direction
- had no effecte2
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
t0“Effects of Nitrogen on Melon (Citrillus lanatus) at Ibadan, Nigeria”
e1“Nitrogen increased yields by increasing fruits/plant, seeds/fruit and seed weight”
e2“had no effect on fruit weight, size and husk”
Claim · model-written summary
Nitrogen increased leaf area of melon through leaf number and leaf size.
- Taxon
- MelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- Nitrogene1
- Outcome
- leaf areae3
- Direction
- increasede3
- Qualifier
- through leaf number and leaf sizee3
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Effects of Nitrogen on Melon (Citrillus lanatus) at Ibadan, Nigeria”
e1“Nitrogen increased yields by increasing fruits/plant, seeds/fruit and seed weight”
e3“increased leaf area through leaf number and leaf size”
Claim · model-written summary
Melon varieties differed significantly.
- Taxon
- melonCucumis meloe4
- Outcome
- varietal differencese4
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t0“Effects of Nitrogen on Melon (Citrillus lanatus) at Ibadan, Nigeria”
e4“Three experiments testing the effects of nitrogen on melon showed significant varietal differences”
Claim · model-written summary
Leaf area declined rapidly when fruit growth occurred.
- Taxon
- MelonCucumis melot0
- Organ / stage
- Fruit growthe5
- Outcome
- leaf areae5
- Direction
- declinee5
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Verbatim
t0“Effects of Nitrogen on Melon (Citrillus lanatus) at Ibadan, Nigeria”
e5“Fruit growth coincided with a rapid decline in leaf area”
Claim · model-written summary
Mottled green melon fruits contributed appreciable assimilates to their own growth.
- Taxon
- MelonCucumis melot0
- Organ / stage
- mottled green fruitse6
- Outcome
- own growthe6
- Qualifier
- contributed appreciable assimilatese6
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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t0“Effects of Nitrogen on Melon (Citrillus lanatus) at Ibadan, Nigeria”
e6“the mottled green fruits contributed appreciable assimilates towards their own growth”
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