Abstract
Field and laboratory studies were conducted to determine the effect of plant spacing and rate of swine manure application on the growth, yield, nutrient concentration, uptake and proximate composition of muskmelon (Cucumis melo). The experiments were laid out as a 3×4 factorial fitted in a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with 3 replications. The treatments consisted of four rates of swine manure (0 t ha-1, 5 t ha-1, 10 t ha-1 and 15 t ha-1) and three crop spacing (50 × 50 cm, 75 × 75 cm, 100 × 100 cm). The results showed that spacing had no significant effect on the number of leaves, leaf area, stem diameter and number of branches, but substantially increased the vine length at 100 × 100 cm. Number of flowers and fruit weight per plant increased with raw spacing, while the number of fruits per plot and fruit yield (t ha-1) increased with a decrease in plant spacing, whereas the narrowest spacing of 50 × 50 cm produced the significantly highest fruit yield (25.47 t ha-1). The concentrations of P, Ca, Mg and Fe (4.28, 6.81, 4.55 and 0.80 mg kg-1) were the highest at 100 × 100 cm spacing compared to other treatments. However, N concentration (1.18) and uptake of N, P, Ca, Mg, Fe and Na was highest at spacing of 75 × 75 cm and at 10 t ha-1 swine manure rate. The effect of spacing on proximate composition of muskmelon did not follow a particular pattern; however, wider spacing of 75 × 75 cm and 100 × 100 cm at 10 t ha-1 favoured most of the proximate composition compared to the narrowest spacing of 50 × 50 cm and other manure rates. Although there was no significant difference in fruit yields of 10 and 15 t ha-1, application of 15 t ha-1, swine manure out-yielded 10 t ha-1, by 8.55%.
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Claims 14
Claim · model-written summary
Plant spacing had no significant effect on the number of leaves, leaf area, stem diameter and number of branches of muskmelon.
- Taxon
- muskmelon
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Cucumis meloe0 - Treatment
- spacinge1
- Outcome
- number of leaves, leaf area, stem diameter and number of branchese1
- Direction
- no significant effecte1
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“proximate composition of muskmelon (Cucumis melo)”
e1“The results showed that spacing had no significant effect on the number of leaves, leaf area, stem diameter and number of branches, but substantially increased the vine length at 100 × 100 cm”
Claim · model-written summary
Spacing of 100 × 100 cm substantially increased muskmelon vine length.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- 100 × 100 cme1
- Outcome
- vine lengthe1
- Direction
- substantially increasede1
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“proximate composition of muskmelon (Cucumis melo)”
e1“The results showed that spacing had no significant effect on the number of leaves, leaf area, stem diameter and number of branches, but substantially increased the vine length at 100 × 100 cm”
Claim · model-written summary
Wider spacing increased the number of flowers and fruit weight per muskmelon plant.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- raw spacinge2
- Outcome
- Number of flowers and fruit weight per plante2
- Direction
- increasede2
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“proximate composition of muskmelon (Cucumis melo)”
e2“Number of flowers and fruit weight per plant increased with raw spacing”
Claim · model-written summary
Narrower spacing increased the number of fruits per plot and fruit yield of muskmelon.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- a decrease in plant spacinge3
- Outcome
- number of fruits per plot and fruit yielde3
- Direction
- increasede3
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“proximate composition of muskmelon (Cucumis melo)”
e3“while the number of fruits per plot and fruit yield (t ha-1) increased with a decrease in plant spacing”
Claim · model-written summary
The 50 × 50 cm spacing produced the significantly highest muskmelon fruit yield, 25.47 t ha-1.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- 50 × 50 cme4
- Outcome
- fruit yielde4
- Direction
- significantly higheste4
- Value
- 25.47 t ha-1e4
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“proximate composition of muskmelon (Cucumis melo)”
e4“whereas the narrowest spacing of 50 × 50 cm produced the significantly highest fruit yield (25.47 t ha-1)”
Claim · model-written summary
Muskmelon P concentration was highest at 100 × 100 cm spacing, 4.28 mg kg-1.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- 100 × 100 cme5
- Outcome
- concentrations of Pe5
- Direction
- the higheste5
- Value
- 4.28e5
- Comparator
- other treatmentse5
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Verbatim
e0“proximate composition of muskmelon (Cucumis melo)”
e5“The concentrations of P, Ca, Mg and Fe (4.28, 6.81, 4.55 and 0.80 mg kg-1) were the highest at 100 × 100 cm spacing compared to other treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Muskmelon Ca concentration was highest at 100 × 100 cm spacing, 6.81 mg kg-1.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- 100 × 100 cme5
- Outcome
- concentrations of P, Ca, Mg and Fee5
- Direction
- the higheste5
- Value
- 6.81e5
- Comparator
- other treatmentse5
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Verbatim
e0“proximate composition of muskmelon (Cucumis melo)”
e5“The concentrations of P, Ca, Mg and Fe (4.28, 6.81, 4.55 and 0.80 mg kg-1) were the highest at 100 × 100 cm spacing compared to other treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Muskmelon Mg concentration was highest at 100 × 100 cm spacing, 4.55 mg kg-1.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- 100 × 100 cme5
- Outcome
- concentrations of P, Ca, Mg and Fee5
- Direction
- the higheste5
- Value
- 4.55e5
- Comparator
- other treatmentse5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“proximate composition of muskmelon (Cucumis melo)”
e5“The concentrations of P, Ca, Mg and Fe (4.28, 6.81, 4.55 and 0.80 mg kg-1) were the highest at 100 × 100 cm spacing compared to other treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Muskmelon Fe concentration was highest at 100 × 100 cm spacing, 0.80 mg kg-1.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- 100 × 100 cme5
- Outcome
- concentrations of P, Ca, Mg and Fee5
- Direction
- the higheste5
- Value
- 0.80e5
- Comparator
- other treatmentse5
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“proximate composition of muskmelon (Cucumis melo)”
e5“The concentrations of P, Ca, Mg and Fe (4.28, 6.81, 4.55 and 0.80 mg kg-1) were the highest at 100 × 100 cm spacing compared to other treatments”
Claim · model-written summary
Muskmelon N concentration was highest at 75 × 75 cm spacing and 10 t ha-1 swine manure, 1.18.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- 75 × 75 cme6
- Outcome
- N concentratione6
- Direction
- higheste6
- Value
- 1.18e6
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“proximate composition of muskmelon (Cucumis melo)”
e6“However, N concentration (1.18) and uptake of N, P, Ca, Mg, Fe and Na was highest at spacing of 75 × 75 cm and at 10 t ha-1 swine manure rate”
Claim · model-written summary
Uptake of N, P, Ca, Mg, Fe and Na by muskmelon was highest at 75 × 75 cm spacing and 10 t ha-1 swine manure.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- 75 × 75 cme6
- Outcome
- uptake of N, P, Ca, Mg, Fe and Nae6
- Direction
- higheste6
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“proximate composition of muskmelon (Cucumis melo)”
e6“However, N concentration (1.18) and uptake of N, P, Ca, Mg, Fe and Na was highest at spacing of 75 × 75 cm and at 10 t ha-1 swine manure rate”
Claim · model-written summary
Wider spacing of 75 × 75 cm and 100 × 100 cm at 10 t ha-1 favoured most muskmelon proximate composition compared with the narrowest spacing.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- wider spacing of 75 × 75 cm and 100 × 100 cm at 10 t ha-1e7
- Outcome
- proximate compositione7
- Direction
- favourede7
- Comparator
- narrowest spacing of 50 × 50 cme7
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“proximate composition of muskmelon (Cucumis melo)”
e7“wider spacing of 75 × 75 cm and 100 × 100 cm at 10 t ha-1 favoured most of the proximate composition compared to the narrowest spacing of 50 × 50 cm and other manure rates”
Claim · model-written summary
Applying 15 t ha-1 swine manure out-yielded 10 t ha-1 by 8.55% in muskmelon fruit yield.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- 15 t ha-1, swine manuree1
- Outcome
- fruit yieldse1
- Direction
- out-yieldede1
- Value
- 8.55%e1
- Comparator
- 10 t ha-1e1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“proximate composition of muskmelon (Cucumis melo)”
e1“Although there was no significant difference in fruit yields of 10 and 15 t ha-1, application of 15 t ha-1, swine manure out-yielded 10 t ha-1, by 8.55%”
Claim · model-written summary
Muskmelon fruit yields did not differ significantly between 10 and 15 t ha-1 swine manure.
- Taxon
- muskmelonCucumis meloe0
- Treatment
- 10 and 15 t ha-1e1
- Outcome
- fruit yieldse1
- Direction
- no significant differencee1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“proximate composition of muskmelon (Cucumis melo)”
e1“Although there was no significant difference in fruit yields of 10 and 15 t ha-1, application of 15 t ha-1, swine manure out-yielded 10 t ha-1, by 8.55%”
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