Abstract
Calcium and potassium are essential nutrients that play a significant role in increasing yield, quality and postharvest properties of many fruits and vegetables. The role of these nutrients in improving quality and quantity of fleshy fruits is important and their interaction on plants such as cantaloupe is less understood. In this research the effects of calcium (0 and 3 g/L) and potassium (0, 1 and 2 g/L) and their interactions on some growth parameters, yield and fruit quality of two hybrid cultivars of cantaloupe (Anans and Shahpasand) was studied in a factorial split plot experiment based on a randomized completed block design with three replications. Calcium increased fresh and dry weight of plants, number of leaf, relative water content, thickness and firmness of fruit flesh, fruit diameter and mean fruit weight in both cultivars and the number of fruits per plant in Shahpasand cultivar. Potassium increased the relative water content, leaf number, thickness and firmness of fruit flesh, fruit diameter and length, mean fruit weight in both cultivars and number of fruits per plant in Shahpasand cultivar. The interaction between calcium and potassium was significant for the number of leaves, relative water content, thickness and fruit firmness, total fruit yield and fruit carotenoid levels. Combination treatment of calcium and potassium increased the fruit yield of Ananas and Shahpasand cultivars by 80 and 147 and the amount of carotenoids by 47 and 81 percent as compared with control, respectively.
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Claims 17
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium increased fresh and dry weight of plants, number of leaf in both cultivars.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)
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Cucumis melot0 - Material
- both cultivarse0
- Treatment
- Calciume0
- Outcome
- fresh and dry weight of plants, number of leafe0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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Verbatim
e0“Calcium increased fresh and dry weight of plants, number of leaf, relative water content, thickness and firmness of fruit flesh, fruit diameter and mean fruit weight in both cultivars and the number of fruits per plant in Shahpasand cultivar”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium increased relative water content in both cultivars.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Material
- both cultivarse0
- Treatment
- Calciume0
- Outcome
- relative water contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Calcium increased fresh and dry weight of plants, number of leaf, relative water content, thickness and firmness of fruit flesh, fruit diameter and mean fruit weight in both cultivars and the number of fruits per plant in Shahpasand cultivar”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium increased thickness and firmness of fruit flesh, fruit diameter in both cultivars.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Material
- both cultivarse0
- Treatment
- Calciume0
- Outcome
- thickness and firmness of fruit flesh, fruit diametere0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Calcium increased fresh and dry weight of plants, number of leaf, relative water content, thickness and firmness of fruit flesh, fruit diameter and mean fruit weight in both cultivars and the number of fruits per plant in Shahpasand cultivar”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium increased mean fruit weight in both cultivars.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Material
- both cultivarse0
- Treatment
- Calciume0
- Outcome
- mean fruit weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Calcium increased fresh and dry weight of plants, number of leaf, relative water content, thickness and firmness of fruit flesh, fruit diameter and mean fruit weight in both cultivars and the number of fruits per plant in Shahpasand cultivar”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium increased number of fruits per plant in Shahpasand cultivar.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Material
- Shahpasand cultivare0
- Treatment
- Calciume0
- Outcome
- number of fruits per plante0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Calcium increased fresh and dry weight of plants, number of leaf, relative water content, thickness and firmness of fruit flesh, fruit diameter and mean fruit weight in both cultivars and the number of fruits per plant in Shahpasand cultivar”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Potassium increased relative water content, leaf number in both cultivars.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Material
- both cultivarse0
- Treatment
- Potassiume0
- Outcome
- relative water content, leaf numbere0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Potassium increased the relative water content, leaf number, thickness and firmness of fruit flesh, fruit diameter and length, mean fruit weight in both cultivars and number of fruits per plant in Shahpasand cultivar”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Potassium increased thickness and firmness of fruit flesh, fruit diameter and length in both cultivars.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Material
- both cultivarse0
- Treatment
- Potassiume0
- Outcome
- thickness and firmness of fruit flesh, fruit diameter and lengthe0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Potassium increased the relative water content, leaf number, thickness and firmness of fruit flesh, fruit diameter and length, mean fruit weight in both cultivars and number of fruits per plant in Shahpasand cultivar”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Potassium increased mean fruit weight in both cultivars.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Material
- both cultivarse0
- Treatment
- Potassiume0
- Outcome
- mean fruit weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Potassium increased the relative water content, leaf number, thickness and firmness of fruit flesh, fruit diameter and length, mean fruit weight in both cultivars and number of fruits per plant in Shahpasand cultivar”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Potassium increased number of fruits per plant in Shahpasand cultivar.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Material
- Shahpasand cultivare0
- Treatment
- Potassiume0
- Outcome
- number of fruits per plante0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Potassium increased the relative water content, leaf number, thickness and firmness of fruit flesh, fruit diameter and length, mean fruit weight in both cultivars and number of fruits per plant in Shahpasand cultivar”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium and potassium interacted significantly for number of leaves, relative water content.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Treatment
- calcium and potassiume0
- Outcome
- number of leaves, relative water contente0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The interaction between calcium and potassium was significant for the number of leaves, relative water content, thickness and fruit firmness, total fruit yield and fruit carotenoid levels”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium and potassium interacted significantly for thickness and fruit firmness.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Treatment
- calcium and potassiume0
- Outcome
- thickness and fruit firmnesse0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The interaction between calcium and potassium was significant for the number of leaves, relative water content, thickness and fruit firmness, total fruit yield and fruit carotenoid levels”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium and potassium interacted significantly for total fruit yield.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Treatment
- calcium and potassiume0
- Outcome
- total fruit yielde0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The interaction between calcium and potassium was significant for the number of leaves, relative water content, thickness and fruit firmness, total fruit yield and fruit carotenoid levels”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Calcium and potassium interacted significantly for fruit carotenoid levels.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Treatment
- calcium and potassiume0
- Outcome
- fruit carotenoid levelse0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The interaction between calcium and potassium was significant for the number of leaves, relative water content, thickness and fruit firmness, total fruit yield and fruit carotenoid levels”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined calcium and potassium increased fruit yield in Ananas by 80 versus control.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Material
- Ananase0
- Treatment
- Combination treatment of calcium and potassiume0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 80e0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Combination treatment of calcium and potassium increased the fruit yield of Ananas and Shahpasand cultivars by 80 and 147 and the amount of carotenoids by 47 and 81 percent as compared with control, respectively”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined calcium and potassium increased fruit yield in Shahpasand by 147 versus control.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Material
- Shahpasande0
- Treatment
- Combination treatment of calcium and potassiume0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 147e0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Combination treatment of calcium and potassium increased the fruit yield of Ananas and Shahpasand cultivars by 80 and 147 and the amount of carotenoids by 47 and 81 percent as compared with control, respectively”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined calcium and potassium increased amount of carotenoids in Ananas by 47 versus control.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Material
- Ananase0
- Treatment
- Combination treatment of calcium and potassiume0
- Outcome
- amount of carotenoidse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 47e0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Combination treatment of calcium and potassium increased the fruit yield of Ananas and Shahpasand cultivars by 80 and 147 and the amount of carotenoids by 47 and 81 percent as compared with control, respectively”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined calcium and potassium increased amount of carotenoids in Shahpasand by 81 percent versus control.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)Cucumis melot0
- Material
- Shahpasande0
- Treatment
- Combination treatment of calcium and potassiume0
- Outcome
- amount of carotenoidse0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- 81 percente0
- Comparator
- controle0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Combination treatment of calcium and potassium increased the fruit yield of Ananas and Shahpasand cultivars by 80 and 147 and the amount of carotenoids by 47 and 81 percent as compared with control, respectively”
t0“Muskmelon Cultivars (Cucumis melo L.)”
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