Abstract
Drought is widely recognized as one of the most significant agricultural constraints worldwide. A strategy to avoid the adverse effects of drought on crops is to cultivate high-yielding varieties by grafting them onto drought-tolerant rootstocks with a differentiated root system. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate fruit yield and quality, root system architecture, and water productivity of watermelon grafted onto Lagenaria siceraria rootstocks. To do so, a commercial watermelon cultivar “Santa Amelia” [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.)] was grafted onto five L. siceraria rootstocks: ‘Illapel’, ‘Osorno’, ‘BG-48’, ‘GC’, and ‘Philippines’, which were grown under three irrigation treatments (100%, 75%, and 50% of evapotranspiration). The comparison of the L. siceraria rootstocks in the irrigation treatments demonstrated no significant effect on watermelon fruit quality parameters. The rootstocks ‘Illapel’, ‘Osorno’, and ‘GC’ significantly improved the fruit number and yield (total fruit weight) under water deficit. Similarly, ‘Illapel’, ‘Osorno’, and ‘GC’ consistently showed statistical differences for root system architecture traits compared to ‘BG-48’ and ‘Philippines’. Based on these results, we concluded that the used L. siceraria rootstocks did not affect the fruit yield and quality of grafted watermelon under water deficit. This study may help adjust the amount of applied water for watermelon production where L. siceraria rootstocks are utilized.
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Claims 6
Claim · model-written summary
The L. siceraria rootstocks had no significant effect on watermelon fruit quality parameters across irrigation treatments.
- Taxon
- watermelon
Citrullus lanatust0 - Treatment
- L. siceraria rootstockse0
- Outcome
- fruit quality parameterse0
- Direction
- no significant effecte0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
t0“Grafted Watermelon”
e0“The comparison of the L. siceraria rootstocks in the irrigation treatments demonstrated no significant effect on watermelon fruit quality parameters”
Claim · model-written summary
The Illapel rootstock significantly improved fruit number and yield of watermelon under water deficit.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Material
- Illapele1
- Treatment
- water deficite1
- Outcome
- fruit number and yielde1
- Direction
- significantly improvede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Grafted Watermelon”
e1“The rootstocks ‘Illapel’, ‘Osorno’, and ‘GC’ significantly improved the fruit number and yield (total fruit weight) under water deficit”
Claim · model-written summary
The Osorno rootstock significantly improved fruit number and yield of watermelon under water deficit.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Material
- Osornoe1
- Treatment
- water deficite1
- Outcome
- fruit number and yielde1
- Direction
- significantly improvede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Grafted Watermelon”
e1“The rootstocks ‘Illapel’, ‘Osorno’, and ‘GC’ significantly improved the fruit number and yield (total fruit weight) under water deficit”
Claim · model-written summary
The GC rootstock significantly improved fruit number and yield of watermelon under water deficit.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Material
- GCe1
- Treatment
- water deficite1
- Outcome
- fruit number and yielde1
- Direction
- significantly improvede1
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Grafted Watermelon”
e1“The rootstocks ‘Illapel’, ‘Osorno’, and ‘GC’ significantly improved the fruit number and yield (total fruit weight) under water deficit”
Claim · model-written summary
Illapel, Osorno and GC rootstocks showed statistical differences in root system architecture traits compared with BG-48 and Philippines.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- L. siceraria rootstockse0
- Outcome
- root system architecture traitse2
- Direction
- statistical differencese2
- Comparator
- BG-48e2
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Grafted Watermelon”
e0“The comparison of the L. siceraria rootstocks in the irrigation treatments demonstrated no significant effect on watermelon fruit quality parameters”
e2“consistently showed statistical differences for root system architecture traits compared to ‘BG-48’ and ‘Philippines’”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors concluded that the L. siceraria rootstocks did not affect fruit yield and quality of grafted watermelon under water deficit.
- Taxon
- watermelonCitrullus lanatust0
- Treatment
- L. siceraria rootstockse3
- Outcome
- fruit yield and qualitye3
- Direction
- did not affecte3
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
t0“Grafted Watermelon”
e3“we concluded that the used L. siceraria rootstocks did not affect the fruit yield and quality of grafted watermelon under water deficit”
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