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Lycopene content differed by year, 52.44 versus 32.51 µg·g −1.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatuse0 - Outcome
- lycopene contente0
- Value
- 52.44 and 32.51 µg·g −1e0
Verbatim
e0“watermelon ( Citrullus lanatus ), especially when plants are under biotic and/or abiotic stress. A 2-year field study was conducted to evaluate the combination of four different rootstocks and two types of plastic mulch (black and clear) on date of watermelon first flowering, fruit ripening, yield, and fruit quality when plants were exposed to Verticillium dahliae . Seedless watermelon cv. Secretariat was grafted ont…” Show full quote
Title
Pinki Devi; Penelope Perkins-Veazie; Carol A. Miles HortScience 2020. doi:10.21273/hortsci15134-20
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Intervention effect Mulch type did not alter verticillium wilt AUDPC.
- Intervention effect Grafting reduced wilt AUDPC from 743 to 227.
- Intervention effect Mulch and year did not change male or female flowering time.
- Intervention effect Rootstock did not affect male first flowering.
- Intervention effect Round delayed female flowering versus Tetsukabuto by 14 days in 2018.
- Intervention effect Round delayed female flowering versus Tetsukabuto by 11 days in 2019.
- Intervention effect Round delayed female flowering versus nongrafted Secretariat by 7 days.
- Intervention effect Neither mulch nor rootstock changed days to first harvest.
- Intervention effect Yield did not differ by year, harvest date or mulch.
- Intervention effect Grafting affected yield.
- Intervention effect Super Shintosa produced the greatest fruit number, 3.7 per plant.
- Intervention effect Super Shintosa produced the greatest fruit weight, 14.8 kg per plant.
- Intervention effect Hollow heart, hard seeds and soluble solids did not differ by mulch, rootstock or harvest date.
- Intervention effect Super Shintosa gave the highest flesh firmness, 6.7 N.