Abstract
The use of grafted melons for reducing damages caused by soil-borne pathogens is launching in Iran. The price of a grafted transplant is approximately seven times higher than that of a non- grafted one, and thus growers have to carefully consider the economic benefits of using grafted plants, which depend on expected yield and income. Yield and quality of muskmelon cultivar Samsoori (Falat seed company) grafted on rootstock of Cucurbita maxima Duchesne A— Cucurbita moschata Duchesne (‘Ace’; DongBu HighTek seed company) were evaluated in open filed conditions. Experiment had six treatments, two of which with non-grafted and grafted plants with plant densities of 13,333, 8,333, and 6,060 plants/ha. The use of muskmelon grafted on ‘Ace’ rootstock showed significant difference in the total fruit weight and the total yield. Grafting increased total yield about 23.5% with increasing of fruit number per plant. With the use of melon plants, planting density may be reduced by 55%, obtaining lower yields than those obtained from plants grown on common density. Fruits harvested from grafted plants had higher flesh and skin percentage than those harvested from non-grafted plants, without affecting the content of soluble solids. Stem length of scions in grafted plants was higher than in the non-grafted ones. Interaction effects of treatments were significantly in traits leaf number and flesh dry matter.
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Claim · model-written summary
Grafting increased total muskmelon yield by about 23.5%.
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e0“Grafting increased total yield about 23.5%”
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Claim · model-written summary
Grafting increased fruit number per plant.
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- MUSKMELON
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- fruit number per plante0
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- increasinge0
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e0“Grafting increased total yield about 23.5% with increasing of fruit number per plant”
t0“MUSKMELON”
Claim · model-written summary
Reducing planting density by 55% gave lower yields than common density.
- Taxon
- MUSKMELONCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- planting density may be reduced by 55%e0
- Outcome
- yieldse0
- Direction
- lowere0
- Value
- 55%e0
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- common densitye0
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e0“planting density may be reduced by 55%, obtaining lower yields than those obtained from plants grown on common density”
t0“MUSKMELON”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafted fruit had higher flesh percentage than nongrafted fruit.
- Taxon
- MUSKMELONCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- grafted plantse0
- Outcome
- fleshe0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- non-grafted plantse0
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e0“Fruits harvested from grafted plants had higher flesh and skin percentage than those harvested from non-grafted plants”
t0“MUSKMELON”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafted fruit had higher skin percentage than nongrafted fruit.
- Taxon
- MUSKMELONCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- grafted plantse0
- Outcome
- skin percentagee0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- non-grafted plantse0
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e0“Fruits harvested from grafted plants had higher flesh and skin percentage than those harvested from non-grafted plants”
t0“MUSKMELON”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting did not affect soluble solids content.
- Taxon
- MUSKMELONCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- grafted plantse0
- Outcome
- content of soluble solidse0
- Direction
- without affectinge0
- Comparator
- non-grafted plantse0
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e0“Fruits harvested from grafted plants had higher flesh and skin percentage than those harvested from non-grafted plants, without affecting the content of soluble solids”
t0“MUSKMELON”
Claim · model-written summary
Scion stems were longer in grafted than nongrafted plants.
- Taxon
- MUSKMELONCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- grafted plantse0
- Outcome
- Stem length of scionse0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- non-grafted onese0
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e0“Stem length of scions in grafted plants was higher than in the non-grafted ones”
t0“MUSKMELON”
Claim · model-written summary
Treatment interaction significantly affected leaf number.
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- MUSKMELONCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- treatmentse0
- Outcome
- leaf numbere0
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e0“Interaction effects of treatments were significantly in traits leaf number and flesh dry matter”
t0“MUSKMELON”
Claim · model-written summary
Treatment interaction significantly affected flesh dry matter.
- Taxon
- MUSKMELONCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- treatmentse0
- Outcome
- flesh dry mattere0
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e0“Interaction effects of treatments were significantly in traits leaf number and flesh dry matter”
t0“MUSKMELON”
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