Abstract
Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds. The response of pumpkin was examined against controlled water deficiency with spraying salicylic acid under field conditions in 2015 and 2016 in split plot experiment based on complete randomized block design. The plants sprayed with 0, 0.5, 1 and 1.5 mM concentrations of salicylic acid at 5-6 leaf stages. After 15 days plants exposed to -0.3, -1.2 and -1.8 MPa water deficiency. Increasing water deficiency reduced RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids content, plant height, number of nodes and branches per plant, fruit yield, fruit diameter, seed yield, number of seed per fruit and weight of 1000 seeds while it and also increased the diameter of mesocarp especially in -1.8 MPa treated plants. On the contrary, spraying with salicylic acid resulted in significant increase in RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids contents, plant height, number of nodes and branches per plant, fruit yield, diameter of fruit, seed yield, number of seed per fruit and weight of 1000 seeds. Haghest salicylic acid effect observed at 1.5 mM concentration. Most of traits under study depicated their significant reduction at -1.8 MPa water deficiency, while other traits like leaf water content, plant height, chlorophyll a, b and total chlorophyll content, nodes per plant, number of branches and mesocarp diameter were reduced at -1.2 MPa. On the other hand, seed per fruit was increased significantly at -1.2 MPa as compared to -0.3 MPa water deficiency. The main reason for increment of seed number per fruit was due to reduction in mesocarp diameter and its weight. It seems that water deficiency changed the partitioning pattern of assimilates from fruit and shifted them to seeds against mesocarp or other parts of fruit. Among the yield components, seed number per fruit and number of fruit per land area had the most effect on yield formation. The variation in seed weight was not significant. According to results, pumpkin may considered as a tolerant plant to soil suction till -1.2 MPa, without a significant reduction in seed yield.
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Claims 20
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing water deficiency reduced RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids content of pumpkin.
- Taxon
- Pumpkine0
- Treatment
- Increasing water deficiencye1
- Outcome
- RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids contente1
- Direction
- reducede1
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e1“Increasing water deficiency reduced RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids content, plant height, number of nodes and branches per plant, fruit yield, fruit diameter, seed yield, number of seed per fruit and weight of 1000 seeds while it and also increased the diameter of mesocarp especially in -1.8 MPa treated plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing water deficiency reduced plant height, nodes and branches per plant, and fruit yield of pumpkin.
- Taxon
- Pumpkine0
- Treatment
- Increasing water deficiencye1
- Outcome
- plant height, number of nodes and branches per plant, fruit yielde1
- Direction
- reducede1
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e1“Increasing water deficiency reduced RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids content, plant height, number of nodes and branches per plant, fruit yield, fruit diameter, seed yield, number of seed per fruit and weight of 1000 seeds while it and also increased the diameter of mesocarp especially in -1.8 MPa treated plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing water deficiency reduced fruit diameter, seed yield and number of seeds per fruit of pumpkin.
- Taxon
- Pumpkine0
- Treatment
- Increasing water deficiencye1
- Outcome
- fruit diameter, seed yield, number of seed per fruite1
- Direction
- reducede1
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e1“Increasing water deficiency reduced RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids content, plant height, number of nodes and branches per plant, fruit yield, fruit diameter, seed yield, number of seed per fruit and weight of 1000 seeds while it and also increased the diameter of mesocarp especially in -1.8 MPa treated plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing water deficiency reduced the weight of 1000 seeds of pumpkin.
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e1“Increasing water deficiency reduced RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids content, plant height, number of nodes and branches per plant, fruit yield, fruit diameter, seed yield, number of seed per fruit and weight of 1000 seeds while it and also increased the diameter of mesocarp especially in -1.8 MPa treated plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing water deficiency increased the diameter of pumpkin mesocarp, especially at -1.8 MPa.
- Taxon
- Pumpkine0
- Treatment
- Increasing water deficiencye1
- Outcome
- diameter of mesocarpe1
- Direction
- increasede1
- Qualifier
- -1.8 MPa treated plantse1
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e1“Increasing water deficiency reduced RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids content, plant height, number of nodes and branches per plant, fruit yield, fruit diameter, seed yield, number of seed per fruit and weight of 1000 seeds while it and also increased the diameter of mesocarp especially in -1.8 MPa treated plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Spraying salicylic acid increased RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids contents of pumpkin significantly.
- Taxon
- Pumpkine0
- Treatment
- spraying with salicylic acide2
- Outcome
- RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids contentse2
- Direction
- increasee2
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e2“spraying with salicylic acid resulted in significant increase in RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids contents, plant height, number of nodes and branches per plant, fruit yield, diameter of fruit, seed yield, number of seed per fruit and weight of 1000 seeds”
Claim · model-written summary
Spraying salicylic acid increased plant height, nodes and branches per plant, and fruit yield of pumpkin significantly.
- Taxon
- Pumpkine0
- Treatment
- spraying with salicylic acide2
- Outcome
- plant height, number of nodes and branches per plant, fruit yielde2
- Direction
- increasee2
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e2“spraying with salicylic acid resulted in significant increase in RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids contents, plant height, number of nodes and branches per plant, fruit yield, diameter of fruit, seed yield, number of seed per fruit and weight of 1000 seeds”
Claim · model-written summary
Spraying salicylic acid increased diameter of fruit, seed yield and number of seeds per fruit of pumpkin significantly.
- Taxon
- Pumpkine0
- Treatment
- spraying with salicylic acide2
- Outcome
- diameter of fruit, seed yield, number of seed per fruite2
- Direction
- increasee2
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e2“spraying with salicylic acid resulted in significant increase in RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids contents, plant height, number of nodes and branches per plant, fruit yield, diameter of fruit, seed yield, number of seed per fruit and weight of 1000 seeds”
Claim · model-written summary
Spraying salicylic acid increased the weight of 1000 seeds of pumpkin significantly.
- Taxon
- Pumpkine0
- Treatment
- spraying with salicylic acide2
- Outcome
- weight of 1000 seedse2
- Direction
- increasee2
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e2“spraying with salicylic acid resulted in significant increase in RWC, chlorophyll and carotenoids contents, plant height, number of nodes and branches per plant, fruit yield, diameter of fruit, seed yield, number of seed per fruit and weight of 1000 seeds”
Claim · model-written summary
The highest salicylic acid effect on pumpkin was at 1.5 mM.
- Taxon
- Pumpkine0
- Treatment
- salicylic acide3
- Outcome
- salicylic acid effecte3
- Direction
- higherinferrede3
- Qualifier
- 1.5 mM concentratione3
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e3“Haghest salicylic acid effect observed at 1.5 mM concentration”
Claim · model-written summary
Most traits of pumpkin showed significant reduction at -1.8 MPa water deficiency.
- Taxon
- Pumpkine0
- Treatment
- -1.8 MPa water deficiencye4
- Outcome
- Most of traits under studye4
- Direction
- reductione4
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e4“Most of traits under study depicated their significant reduction at -1.8 MPa water deficiency, while other traits like leaf water content, plant height, chlorophyll a, b and total chlorophyll content, nodes per plant, number of branches and mesocarp diameter were reduced at -1.2 MPa”
Claim · model-written summary
Leaf water content and plant height of pumpkin were reduced at -1.2 MPa.
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e4“Most of traits under study depicated their significant reduction at -1.8 MPa water deficiency, while other traits like leaf water content, plant height, chlorophyll a, b and total chlorophyll content, nodes per plant, number of branches and mesocarp diameter were reduced at -1.2 MPa”
Claim · model-written summary
Chlorophyll a, b and total chlorophyll content of pumpkin were reduced at -1.2 MPa.
- Taxon
- Pumpkine0
- Treatment
- -1.2 MPae4
- Outcome
- chlorophyll a, b and total chlorophyll contente4
- Direction
- reducede4
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e4“Most of traits under study depicated their significant reduction at -1.8 MPa water deficiency, while other traits like leaf water content, plant height, chlorophyll a, b and total chlorophyll content, nodes per plant, number of branches and mesocarp diameter were reduced at -1.2 MPa”
Claim · model-written summary
Nodes per plant, number of branches and mesocarp diameter of pumpkin were reduced at -1.2 MPa.
- Taxon
- Pumpkine0
- Treatment
- -1.2 MPae4
- Outcome
- nodes per plant, number of branches and mesocarp diametere4
- Direction
- reducede4
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e4“Most of traits under study depicated their significant reduction at -1.8 MPa water deficiency, while other traits like leaf water content, plant height, chlorophyll a, b and total chlorophyll content, nodes per plant, number of branches and mesocarp diameter were reduced at -1.2 MPa”
Claim · model-written summary
Seed number per fruit of pumpkin was significantly higher at -1.2 MPa than at -0.3 MPa.
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e5“On the other hand, seed per fruit was increased significantly at -1.2 MPa as compared to -0.3 MPa water deficiency”
Claim · model-written summary
Increased seed number per fruit at -1.2 MPa was due to reduced mesocarp diameter and weight.
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e6“The main reason for increment of seed number per fruit was due to reduction in mesocarp diameter and its weight”
Claim · model-written summary
Water deficiency probably shifted assimilates from the fruit to the seeds.
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e7“It seems that water deficiency changed the partitioning pattern of assimilates from fruit and shifted them to seeds against mesocarp or other parts of fruit”
Claim · model-written summary
Seed number per fruit and number of fruit per land area had the most effect on pumpkin yield formation.
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e1“Among the yield components, seed number per fruit and number of fruit per land area had the most effect on yield formation”
Claim · model-written summary
Seed weight of pumpkin showed no significant variation.
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e2“The variation in seed weight was not significant”
Claim · model-written summary
Pumpkin may be considered tolerant to soil suction down to -1.2 MPa, without a significant reduction in seed yield.
Not reportedComparator
Verbatim
e0“Pumpkin is one of the valuable medicinal plants which have high oil content in its seeds”
e1“pumpkin may considered as a tolerant plant to soil suction till -1.2 MPa, without a significant reduction in seed yield”
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