Abstract
ABSTRACT Vegetable growers must often hold transplants produced in multi-cellular flats for extended periods past the time they would normally transplant due to adverse environmental conditions for field planting. Research was conducted to determine the influence of three transplant ages (one, two, and four weeks after emergence) and two transplant cell volumes (102.5 cm3 and 280.8 cm3) on 'Athena' muskmelon (Cucumis melo L. Reticulatus group) development and yield. Transplants produced in the smaller cell volume had fewer leaves, and less height, leaf area, and dry shoot weight than those produced in cells with larger volumes. Generally, as the age of the transplant increased, leaf number, height, leaf area, and dry shoot weight of muskmelon seedlings increased linearly, regardless of transplant cell volume. Plants produced in the large cell volume produced greater early season (first four harvests) marketable melon numbers and weights per hectare than those from the small cell volume; and, two-week-old transplants produced greater marketable melon yields compared to one or four-week-old transplants indicating that delaying transplanting by only a few weeks will potentially reduce yields. For total-season production, marketable muskmelon numbers and weights were similar for the cell volumes and transplant ages evaluated. However, marketable melon numbers per hectare increased linearly with transplant age, while marketable melon weights increased quadratically with transplant age. Two-week-old transplants grown in the small cell volume would be the best option for muskmelon growers if they are concerned only about total-season yields. However, if growers want to maximize early-season yields then two-week-old transplants grown in the large cell volume would be the best choice.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Smaller cells produced fewer leaves and less height, leaf area and dry shoot weight.
- Taxon
- muskmelon
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Cucumis melot0 - Treatment
- smaller cell volumee0
- Outcome
- fewer leaves, and less height, leaf area, and dry shoot weighte0
- Direction
- lesse0
- Comparator
- cells with larger volumese0
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Verbatim
t0“muskmelon”
e0“smaller cell volume had fewer leaves, and less height, leaf area, and dry shoot weight than those produced in cells with larger volumes”
Claim · model-written summary
Leaf number, height, leaf area and dry shoot weight increased linearly with transplant age.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Organ / stage
- seedlingse0
- Outcome
- leaf number, height, leaf area, and dry shoot weighte0
- Direction
- increased linearlye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Muskmelon”
e0“as the age of the transplant increased, leaf number, height, leaf area, and dry shoot weight of muskmelon seedlings increased linearly”
Claim · model-written summary
Large cells gave greater early marketable melon numbers and weights.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- large cell volumee0
- Outcome
- marketable melon numbers and weights per hectaree0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Comparator
- small cell volumee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Muskmelon”
e0“large cell volume produced greater early season (first four harvests) marketable melon numbers and weights per hectare than those from the small cell volume”
Claim · model-written summary
Two-week-old transplants gave greater marketable melon yields than one- or four-week-old transplants.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- two-week-old transplantse0
- Outcome
- marketable melon yieldse0
- Direction
- greatere0
- Comparator
- one or four-week-old transplantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Muskmelon”
e0“two-week-old transplants produced greater marketable melon yields compared to one or four-week-old transplants”
Claim · model-written summary
Total-season marketable melon numbers and weights were similar across cell volumes and ages.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Outcome
- marketable muskmelon numbers and weightse0
- Direction
- similare0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Muskmelon”
e0“marketable muskmelon numbers and weights were similar for the cell volumes and transplant ages evaluated”
Claim · model-written summary
Marketable melon numbers increased linearly with transplant age.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Organ / stage
- transplant agee0
- Outcome
- marketable melon numbers per hectaree0
- Direction
- increased linearlye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Muskmelon”
e0“marketable melon numbers per hectare increased linearly with transplant age”
Claim · model-written summary
Marketable melon weights increased quadratically with transplant age.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Organ / stage
- transplant agee0
- Outcome
- marketable melon weightse0
- Direction
- increased quadraticallye0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Muskmelon”
e0“marketable melon weights increased quadratically with transplant age”
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