Abstract
Short-internode (SI) muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) genotypes Ky-P 7 (si-1 gene for SI) and Main Dwarf (si-3 gene for SI) were compared with the normal-internode (NI) cultivar Mainstream at various plant spacings or planting densities over 3 years. SI `Honey Bush' (si-1 gene for SI) and `Bush Star' (si-1 gene for SI) were included in 2 years. At double the population, SI plants (si gene type) produced ≈35% fewer fruit than `Mainstream' plants grown at one-half the population density. Spacing generally had no effect on average fruit weight, but increasing plant density of SI genotypes decreased the number of fruit per plant. Generally, doubling the density reduced leaf area and total plant dry weight, but had minimal effect on the amount of shaded leaf area. Ky-P 7 , `Honey Bush', and `Bush Star' plants had more leaf shading than `Mainstream' and Main Dwarf plants.
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Claims 8
Claim · model-written summary
At twice the population, short-internode plants produced about 35% fewer fruit than Mainstream at half the population.
- Taxon
- Muskmelon
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Cucumis melot0 - Material
- SI plantse0
- Treatment
- double the populatione0
- Outcome
- fruite0
- Direction
- fewere0
- Value
- ≈35%e0
- Comparator
- `Mainstream' plantse0
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Verbatim
e0“At double the population, SI plants (si gene type) produced ≈35% fewer fruit than `Mainstream' plants grown at one-half the population density”
t0“Muskmelon Plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Spacing generally did not affect average muskmelon fruit weight.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- Spacinge0
- Outcome
- average fruit weighte0
- Direction
- no effecte0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Spacing generally had no effect on average fruit weight”
t0“Muskmelon Plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Increasing density of short-internode genotypes decreased fruit number per plant.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Material
- SI genotypese0
- Treatment
- increasing plant densitye0
- Outcome
- number of fruit per plante0
- Direction
- decreasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“increasing plant density of SI genotypes decreased the number of fruit per plant”
t0“Muskmelon Plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Doubling density generally reduced muskmelon leaf area and total plant dry weight.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- doubling the densitye0
- Outcome
- leaf area and total plant dry weighte0
- Direction
- reducede0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“doubling the density reduced leaf area and total plant dry weight”
t0“Muskmelon Plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Doubling density had minimal effect on shaded muskmelon leaf area.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Treatment
- doubling the densitye0
- Outcome
- amount of shaded leaf areae0
- Direction
- minimal effecte0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“doubling the density reduced leaf area and total plant dry weight, but had minimal effect on the amount of shaded leaf area”
t0“Muskmelon Plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Ky-P 7 had more leaf shading than Mainstream and Main Dwarf.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Material
- Ky-P 7e0
- Outcome
- leaf shadinge0
- Direction
- moree0
- Comparator
- `Mainstream' and Main Dwarfe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ky-P 7 , `Honey Bush', and `Bush Star' plants had more leaf shading than `Mainstream' and Main Dwarf plants”
t0“Muskmelon Plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Honey Bush had more leaf shading than Mainstream and Main Dwarf.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Material
- `Honey Bush'e0
- Outcome
- leaf shadinge0
- Direction
- moree0
- Comparator
- `Mainstream' and Main Dwarfe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ky-P 7 , `Honey Bush', and `Bush Star' plants had more leaf shading than `Mainstream' and Main Dwarf plants”
t0“Muskmelon Plants”
Claim · model-written summary
Bush Star had more leaf shading than Mainstream and Main Dwarf.
- Taxon
- MuskmelonCucumis melot0
- Material
- `Bush Star'e0
- Outcome
- leaf shadinge0
- Direction
- moree0
- Comparator
- `Mainstream' and Main Dwarfe0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Ky-P 7 , `Honey Bush', and `Bush Star' plants had more leaf shading than `Mainstream' and Main Dwarf plants”
t0“Muskmelon Plants”
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