Claim · model-written summary
Crimson Sweet grafted on bitter apple had 11.7% higher fruit dry matter than Crimson Sweet grafted on Shintosa.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatuse1 - Material
- Crimson Sweete1
- Treatment
- Crimson Sweet grafted on bitter applee4
- Outcome
- fruit DMe4
- Direction
- highere4
- Value
- 11.7%e4
- Comparator
- those grafted on Shintosae4
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e1“evaluate bitter apple as potential rootstock for watermelon (cv. Crimson Sweet)”
e4“The fruit DM and TSS contents recorded for Crimson Sweet grafted on bitter apple were significantly higher than those grafted on Shintosa by 11.7% and 8.4%, respectively”
Title
Evaluation of bitter apple (Citrullus colocynthis (L.) Schrad) as potential rootstock for watermelon
Mahdi Bigdelo; Mohammad Reza Hassandokht; Youssef Rouphael; et al. Australian Journal of Crop Science 2017. doi:10.21475/ajcs.17.11.06.p492
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Shintosa rootstock increased total watermelon yield by 20.2% over non-grafted plants.
- Intervention effect Shintosa rootstock increased mean fruit weight of watermelon by 14.0% over the Crimson Sweet/bitter apple combination.
- Intervention effect Grafting Crimson Sweet watermelon on Shintosa increased flesh firmness over the other grafting combinations.
- Intervention effect Grafting Crimson Sweet watermelon on Shintosa increased fruit mineral composition (Ca, P and Zn) over the other grafting combinations.
- Intervention effect Crimson Sweet grafted on bitter apple had 8.4% higher total soluble solids than Crimson Sweet grafted on Shintosa.
- Intervention effect Grafting watermelon on bitter apple slightly decreased yield characteristics relative to Shintosa.
- Intervention effect Grafting watermelon on bitter apple improved flavor compounds relative to Shintosa.
- Intervention effect Grafting watermelon on bitter apple had no serious detrimental effect on other quality attributes relative to Shintosa.
- Recommendation Bitter apple could be proposed as potential germplasm for watermelon rootstock breeding.