Abstract
This study examined the effects of stem-pruning and fruit-thinning on the yield of marketable watermelon fruit (>5 kg) and watermelon quality after four days of postharvest storage at 22 °C (marketing simulation). We examined the fruits from non-grafted and grafted plants (TZ and Nurit rootstocks) for two consecutive years. Grafting increased the number of marketable fruit per m2. The weight of the average marketable fruit was increased by pruning, but was not affected by thinning or by the choice of rootstock. The level of total soluble solids was higher among fruits from Nurit rootstock. Flesh texture was improved by grafting, but was not affected by thinning or pruning. Thinning improved the taste of the fruit significantly better than stem-pruning did. Grafting (both rootstocks) was associated with crispier fruits. The fruits from Nurit-grafted plants tasted best. The combination of grafting + fruit-thinning increased the fruit lycopene content. The highest levels of vitamin C were found among the fruit from Nurit-grafted plants and the pruned + Nurit-grafted plants, in particular. Overall, fruit quality was affected mainly by grafting onto Nurit rootstock in combination with fruit-thinning and less by stem-pruning. However, not all internal and nutritional quality parameters were significantly affected by the grafting + fruit-thinning treatment.
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Claims 15
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting increased marketable watermelon fruit number per area.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Treatment
- Graftinge0
- Outcome
- number of marketable fruit per m2e0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Grafting increased the number of marketable fruit per m2.”
t0“Watermelon Rootstock/Scion Relationships and the Effects of Fruit-Thinning and Stem-Pruning on Yield and Postharvest Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Pruning increased average marketable fruit weight.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- pruninge0
- Outcome
- weight of the average marketable fruite0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The weight of the average marketable fruit was increased by pruning”
t0“Watermelon Rootstock/Scion Relationships and the Effects of Fruit-Thinning and Stem-Pruning on Yield and Postharvest Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Thinning did not affect average marketable fruit weight.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- thinninge0
- Outcome
- weight of the average marketable fruite1
- Direction
- not affectede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“but was not affected by thinning or by the choice of rootstock”
e1“The weight of the average marketable fruit was increased by pruning”
t0“Watermelon Rootstock/Scion Relationships and the Effects of Fruit-Thinning and Stem-Pruning on Yield and Postharvest Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Rootstock choice did not affect average marketable fruit weight.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- choice of rootstocke0
- Outcome
- weight of the average marketable fruite1
- Direction
- not affectede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“but was not affected by thinning or by the choice of rootstock”
e1“The weight of the average marketable fruit was increased by pruning”
t0“Watermelon Rootstock/Scion Relationships and the Effects of Fruit-Thinning and Stem-Pruning on Yield and Postharvest Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Nurit rootstock fruit had higher total soluble solids.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- Nurit rootstocke0
- Outcome
- total soluble solidse0
- Direction
- highere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The level of total soluble solids was higher among fruits from Nurit rootstock.”
t0“Watermelon Rootstock/Scion Relationships and the Effects of Fruit-Thinning and Stem-Pruning on Yield and Postharvest Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting improved flesh texture.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- graftinge0
- Outcome
- Flesh texturee0
- Direction
- improvede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Flesh texture was improved by grafting”
t0“Watermelon Rootstock/Scion Relationships and the Effects of Fruit-Thinning and Stem-Pruning on Yield and Postharvest Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Thinning did not affect flesh texture.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- thinninge0
- Outcome
- Flesh texturee1
- Direction
- not affectede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“but was not affected by thinning or pruning”
e1“Flesh texture was improved by grafting”
t0“Watermelon Rootstock/Scion Relationships and the Effects of Fruit-Thinning and Stem-Pruning on Yield and Postharvest Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Pruning did not affect flesh texture.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- pruninge0
- Outcome
- Flesh texturee1
- Direction
- not affectede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“but was not affected by thinning or pruning”
e1“Flesh texture was improved by grafting”
t0“Watermelon Rootstock/Scion Relationships and the Effects of Fruit-Thinning and Stem-Pruning on Yield and Postharvest Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Thinning improved taste more than stem pruning.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- Thinninge0
- Outcome
- taste of the fruite0
- Direction
- bettere0
- Comparator
- stem-pruninge0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Thinning improved the taste of the fruit significantly better than stem-pruning did.”
t0“Watermelon Rootstock/Scion Relationships and the Effects of Fruit-Thinning and Stem-Pruning on Yield and Postharvest Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting with either rootstock was associated with crispier fruit.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- Graftinge0
- Outcome
- crispier fruitse0
- Direction
- crispiere0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Grafting (both rootstocks) was associated with crispier fruits.”
t0“Watermelon Rootstock/Scion Relationships and the Effects of Fruit-Thinning and Stem-Pruning on Yield and Postharvest Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Nurit grafted fruit tasted best.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- Nurit-graftede0
- Outcome
- tasted beste0
- Direction
- beste0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The fruits from Nurit-grafted plants tasted best.”
t0“Watermelon Rootstock/Scion Relationships and the Effects of Fruit-Thinning and Stem-Pruning on Yield and Postharvest Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting combined with thinning increased lycopene content.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- grafting + fruit-thinninge0
- Outcome
- fruit lycopene contente0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The combination of grafting + fruit-thinning increased the fruit lycopene content.”
t0“Watermelon Rootstock/Scion Relationships and the Effects of Fruit-Thinning and Stem-Pruning on Yield and Postharvest Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Nurit grafted fruit had the highest vitamin C levels, particularly with pruning.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- Nurit-graftede0
- Outcome
- levels of vitamin Ce0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Qualifier
- pruned + Nurit-grafted plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The highest levels of vitamin C were found among the fruit from Nurit-grafted plants and the pruned + Nurit-grafted plants, in particular.”
t0“Watermelon Rootstock/Scion Relationships and the Effects of Fruit-Thinning and Stem-Pruning on Yield and Postharvest Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Fruit quality responded mainly to Nurit grafting with thinning.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- grafting onto Nurit rootstock in combination with fruit-thinninge0
- Outcome
- fruit qualitye0
Not reportedDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Overall, fruit quality was affected mainly by grafting onto Nurit rootstock in combination with fruit-thinning and less by stem-pruning.”
t0“Watermelon Rootstock/Scion Relationships and the Effects of Fruit-Thinning and Stem-Pruning on Yield and Postharvest Fruit Quality”
Claim · model-written summary
Some quality parameters were not significantly affected by grafting with thinning.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- grafting + fruit-thinning treatmente0
- Outcome
- internal and nutritional quality parameterse0
Not reportedComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“not all internal and nutritional quality parameters were significantly affected by the grafting + fruit-thinning treatment”
t0“Watermelon Rootstock/Scion Relationships and the Effects of Fruit-Thinning and Stem-Pruning on Yield and Postharvest Fruit Quality”
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