Abstract
A greenhouse experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of salt stress and ozone on yield and yield components of cucumber. The treatments were defined by a two-factorial design of three irrigation water salinity levels (2, 4 and 6 dS/m) and three ozone concentrations (0, 0.5 and 1 ppm). After germination, cucumber seeds were grown in pots containing soil, coco peat and perlite and fed with Hoagland's solution and were imposed with salt and ozone treatments. The results showed that salinity of irrigation water significantly reduced fruit yield of cucumber owing to a decrease both in fruit number and fruit weight. Also, statistical testing showed significant reductions in vitamin C, fresh and dry weight of shoot and root with increasing water salinity. Ozonated water improved fruit yield by increasing fruit number, but had no significant effect on fruit weight. Application of ozone caused significant increases in fresh and dry weight of shoot and leaf area but caused a significant decrease in the vitamin C. Generally, using ozonated water irrigation can induce positive effect on cucumber under salt stress. In conclusion, the saline water in combination with ozone could be recommended in strategic management to grow cucumber (without impaired effects on crop quantity).
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Claim · model-written summary
Increasing irrigation salinity significantly reduced cucumber fruit yield.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativuse0 - Treatment
- salinity of irrigation watere0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“salinity of irrigation water significantly reduced fruit yield of cucumber owing to a decrease both in fruit number and fruit weight.”
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing salinity decreased cucumber fruit number and weight.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativuse0
- Treatment
- salinity of irrigation watere0
- Outcome
- fruit number and fruit weighte0
- Direction
- decreasee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“salinity of irrigation water significantly reduced fruit yield of cucumber owing to a decrease both in fruit number and fruit weight.”
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing salinity significantly reduced vitamin C.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- increasing water salinitye0
- Outcome
- vitamin Ce0
- Direction
- reductionse0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“statistical testing showed significant reductions in vitamin C, fresh and dry weight of shoot and root with increasing water salinity.”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing salinity significantly reduced shoot and root fresh and dry weight.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- increasing water salinitye0
- Outcome
- fresh and dry weight of shoot and roote0
- Direction
- reductionse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“statistical testing showed significant reductions in vitamin C, fresh and dry weight of shoot and root with increasing water salinity.”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Ozonated water improved fruit yield.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- Ozonated watere0
- Outcome
- fruit yielde0
- Direction
- improvede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ozonated water improved fruit yield by increasing fruit number, but had no significant effect on fruit weight.”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Ozonated water increased fruit number.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- Ozonated watere0
- Outcome
- fruit numbere0
- Direction
- increasinge0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ozonated water improved fruit yield by increasing fruit number, but had no significant effect on fruit weight.”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Ozonated water had no significant effect on fruit weight.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- Ozonated watere0
- Outcome
- fruit weighte0
- Direction
- no significant effecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ozonated water improved fruit yield by increasing fruit number, but had no significant effect on fruit weight.”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Ozone significantly increased shoot fresh and dry weight and leaf area.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- ozonee0
- Outcome
- fresh and dry weight of shoot and leaf areae0
- Direction
- increasese0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Application of ozone caused significant increases in fresh and dry weight of shoot and leaf area”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
Ozone significantly decreased vitamin C.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- ozonee0
- Outcome
- vitamin Ce0
- Direction
- decreasee0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Application of ozone caused significant increases in fresh and dry weight of shoot and leaf area but caused a significant decrease in the vitamin C.”
t0“cucumber”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend saline water with ozone to grow cucumber without impairing crop quantity.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativuse0
- Outcome
- saline water in combination with ozonee0
- Qualifier
- without impaired effects on crop quantitye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the saline water in combination with ozone could be recommended in strategic management to grow cucumber (without impaired effects on crop quantity).”
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