Abstract
Objective: This study aimed to assess the productivity and quality of a melon crop treated with fruit thinning and main stem pruning under field conditions. Experimental Design: The treatments comprised the amount of fruit thinning in the plant (one, two and without thinning) and the period of main stem pruning (35, 40, 45 and 50 days after transplanting - DAT). The crop was set up in a randomized block design factorial of type 3x4, with five replications. Location and Duration of the Study: The experiment carried out at the Center for Agrifood Science and Technology (CCTA) of the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Campus Pombal - PB, Brazil, from December 2016 to February 2017. Methodology: The Hopey King hybrid of the Cantaloupe group was cultivated at a spacing of 2.0 x 0.4 m. Results: The plants without thinning of fruits provided lower values of leaf area and fruits of lower mass. However, due to their higher quantity per hectare, the crop total productivity was high. On the other hand, plants with fewer fruits had the highest values of soluble solids, total and non-reducing soluble sugars. The leaf area, fruit mass, total productivity, and the concentration of reducing and non-reducing soluble sugars were higher when the plants were pruned at 35 DAT. Conclusion: The fruit thinning and main stem pruning affected the production and quality of melon fruits significantly. For more demanding markets, we recommend to treat the plants with one or two fruits and prune at 35 days after transplantation, aiming to enhance the quality variables.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
Melon plants without fruit thinning had lower leaf area.
- Taxon
- Melon
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Cucumis melot0 - Treatment
- without thinning of fruitse1
- Outcome
- leaf areae1
- Direction
- lowere1
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t0“Melon Crops”
e1“The plants without thinning of fruits provided lower values of leaf area”
Claim · model-written summary
Melon plants without fruit thinning produced fruits of lower mass.
- Taxon
- MelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- without thinning of fruitse1
- Outcome
- fruits of lower masse1
- Direction
- lowere1
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t0“Melon Crops”
e1“The plants without thinning of fruits provided lower values of leaf area and fruits of lower mass”
Claim · model-written summary
Because of the higher number of fruits per hectare, total crop productivity of melon plants without thinning was high.
- Taxon
- MelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- without thinning of fruitse2
- Outcome
- crop total productivitye1
- Direction
- highe1
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t0“Melon Crops”
e1“the crop total productivity was high”
e2“The plants without thinning of fruits”
Claim · model-written summary
Melon plants with fewer fruits had the highest soluble solids and total and non-reducing soluble sugars.
- Taxon
- MelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- fewer fruitse1
- Outcome
- soluble solids, total and non-reducing soluble sugarse1
- Direction
- higheste1
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t0“Melon Crops”
e1“plants with fewer fruits had the highest values of soluble solids, total and non-reducing soluble sugars”
Claim · model-written summary
Leaf area, fruit mass and total productivity of melon were higher when plants were pruned at 35 DAT.
- Taxon
- MelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- pruned at 35 DATe1
- Outcome
- leaf area, fruit mass, total productivitye1
- Direction
- highere1
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t0“Melon Crops”
e1“The leaf area, fruit mass, total productivity, and the concentration of reducing and non-reducing soluble sugars were higher when the plants were pruned at 35 DAT”
Claim · model-written summary
The concentrations of reducing and non-reducing soluble sugars in melon were higher when plants were pruned at 35 DAT.
- Taxon
- MelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- pruned at 35 DATe1
- Outcome
- concentration of reducing and non-reducing soluble sugarse1
- Direction
- highere1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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t0“Melon Crops”
e1“The leaf area, fruit mass, total productivity, and the concentration of reducing and non-reducing soluble sugars were higher when the plants were pruned at 35 DAT”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit thinning and main stem pruning significantly affected production and quality of melon fruits.
- Taxon
- melonCucumis meloe1
- Treatment
- fruit thinning and main stem pruninge1
- Outcome
- production and quality of melon fruitse1
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
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e1“The fruit thinning and main stem pruning affected the production and quality of melon fruits significantly”
Claim · model-written summary
For more demanding markets the authors recommend one or two fruits per melon plant and pruning at 35 days after transplantation to enhance quality variables.
- Taxon
- MelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- one or two fruits and prune at 35 days after transplantatione1
- Outcome
- quality variablese1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Melon Crops”
e1“we recommend to treat the plants with one or two fruits and prune at 35 days after transplantation, aiming to enhance the quality variables”
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