Abstract
Grafting is effectively used worldwide to overcome abiotic and biotic factors impacting yield, including soil temperature. Field studies were conducted in 2020 and 2021 in a cool Mediterranean climate (average daily air temperature range of 12.8–17.1 °C) to identify suitable rootstock combinations for grafted cantaloupe (Cucumis melo var. reticulatus) and evaluate fruit yield and quality. Cantaloupe cultivars Sugar Rush (SR), Goddess (G), and Athena (A) were compatible with interspecific hybrid squash (Cucurbita maxima × C. moschata) rootstock cultivars Super Shintosa (SS) and Carnivor (CN) but were incompatible with ‘Carolina Strongback (CS)’ (Citrullus amarus) and ‘Pelop (P)’ (Lagenaria siceraria) rootstocks. Nongrafted cultivars exhibited vine decline at harvest in 2020 but not in 2021, and grafting tended to delay harvest by 15–18 days. Overall, while grafting with interspecific hybrid squash rootstocks may have delayed fruit harvest, fruit quality was not compromised. Further, yield was increased for ‘Goddess’ and ‘Athena’, but not ‘Sugar Rush’. ‘A/CN’ had the highest fruit yield/ha and number per plant. The grafted treatments of each cantaloupe cultivar with interspecific hybrid squash rootstocks met the U.S. fancy grade criteria.
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Claims 11
Claim · model-written summary
Three cantaloupe cultivars were compatible with two interspecific hybrid squash rootstocks.
- Taxon
- Cantaloupe
Cucumis melo var. cantalupoe0 - Material
- Sugar Rush (SR), Goddess (G), and Athena (A)e0
- Outcome
- compatiblee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Cantaloupe cultivars Sugar Rush (SR), Goddess (G), and Athena (A) were compatible with interspecific hybrid squash (Cucurbita maxima × C. moschata) rootstock cultivars Super Shintosa (SS) and Carnivor (CN)”
Claim · model-written summary
The cantaloupe cultivars were incompatible with Carolina Strongback rootstock.
- Taxon
- CantaloupeCucumis melo var. cantalupoe0
- Material
- Carolina Strongback (CS)e1
- Outcome
- incompatiblee1
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Cantaloupe cultivars Sugar Rush (SR), Goddess (G), and Athena (A)”
e1“incompatible with ‘Carolina Strongback (CS)’ (Citrullus amarus)”
Claim · model-written summary
The cantaloupe cultivars were incompatible with Pelop rootstock.
- Taxon
- CantaloupeCucumis melo var. cantalupoe0
- Material
- Pelop (P)e1
- Outcome
- incompatiblee2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Cantaloupe cultivars Sugar Rush (SR), Goddess (G), and Athena (A)”
e1“‘Pelop (P)’ (Lagenaria siceraria) rootstocks”
e2“but were incompatible with”
Claim · model-written summary
Nongrafted cantaloupe showed vine decline at harvest in 2020 but not 2021.
- Taxon
- CantaloupeCucumis melo var. cantalupot0
- Outcome
- vine decline at harveste0
- Qualifier
- in 2020 but not in 2021e0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Nongrafted cultivars exhibited vine decline at harvest in 2020 but not in 2021”
t0“Cantaloupe”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting tended to delay cantaloupe harvest by 15–18 days.
- Taxon
- CantaloupeCucumis melo var. cantalupot0
- Treatment
- graftinge0
- Outcome
- harveste0
- Direction
- delaye0
- Value
- 15–18 dayse0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“grafting tended to delay harvest by 15–18 days”
t0“Cantaloupe”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting with hybrid squash rootstocks did not compromise cantaloupe fruit quality.
- Taxon
- CantaloupeCucumis melo var. cantalupot0
- Treatment
- grafting with interspecific hybrid squash rootstockse0
- Outcome
- fruit qualitye0
- Direction
- not compromisede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“grafting with interspecific hybrid squash rootstocks may have delayed fruit harvest, fruit quality was not compromised”
t0“Cantaloupe”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting increased yield for Goddess.
- Taxon
- CantaloupeCucumis melo var. cantalupot0
- Material
- Goddesse0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedTreatmentComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“yield was increased for ‘Goddess’ and ‘Athena’, but not ‘Sugar Rush’”
t0“Cantaloupe”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting increased yield for Athena.
- Taxon
- CantaloupeCucumis melo var. cantalupot0
- Material
- Athenae0
- Outcome
- yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedTreatmentComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“yield was increased for ‘Goddess’ and ‘Athena’, but not ‘Sugar Rush’”
t0“Cantaloupe”
Claim · model-written summary
Grafting did not increase yield for Sugar Rush.
- Taxon
- CantaloupeCucumis melo var. cantalupot0
- Material
- Sugar Rushe0
- Outcome
- yielde0
Not reportedTreatmentComparatorDirection
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“yield was increased for ‘Goddess’ and ‘Athena’, but not ‘Sugar Rush’”
t0“Cantaloupe”
Claim · model-written summary
A/CN had the highest fruit yield per hectare and fruit number per plant.
- Taxon
- CantaloupeCucumis melo var. cantalupot0
- Material
- A/CNe0
- Outcome
- fruit yield/ha and number per plante0
- Direction
- higheste0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“‘A/CN’ had the highest fruit yield/ha and number per plant”
t0“Cantaloupe”
Claim · model-written summary
Every cantaloupe cultivar grafted on hybrid squash rootstocks met U.S. fancy grade criteria.
- Taxon
- cantaloupeCucumis melo var. cantalupoe0
- Outcome
- met the U.S. fancy grade criteriae0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The grafted treatments of each cantaloupe cultivar with interspecific hybrid squash rootstocks met the U.S. fancy grade criteria”
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