Abstract
Field and laboratory studies were carried out to evaluate the impact of fruit harvest timing and in-situ storage duration on seed yield and quality in cucumber. Fruits were harvested at 30, 40, and 50 days after anthesis (DAA) with seeds extracted immediately or after 5, 10, and 15 days of in-situ storage. Results showed that delaying fruit harvest from 30 to 50 DAA and extending in-situ storage from 0 to 15 days significantly increased the percentage of developed seeds, seed weight per fruit, 100-seed weight, membrane stability index, germination rate, and seedling vigor index. Conversely, the percentage of undeveloped seeds and the relative water content of seeds decreased as the harvest stage was delayed and the in-situ storage duration increased. The study concluded that for optimal seed yield and quality in the cucumber variety Punjab Naveen, seeds should be extracted from fruits harvested at 50 DAA after 10 days of in-situ storage.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Later harvest and longer storage increased developed seed percentage.
- Taxon
- cucumber
Cucumis sativust0 - Treatment
- delaying fruit harvest from 30 to 50 DAA and extending in-situ storage from 0 to 15 dayse0
- Outcome
- percentage of developed seedse0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“delaying fruit harvest from 30 to 50 DAA and extending in-situ storage from 0 to 15 days significantly increased the percentage of developed seeds, seed weight per fruit, 100-seed weight, membrane stability index, germination rate, and seedling vigor index.”
t0“cucumber (Cucumis sativus)”
Claim · model-written summary
Later harvest and longer storage increased seed weight per fruit and 100-seed weight.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- delaying fruit harvest from 30 to 50 DAA and extending in-situ storage from 0 to 15 dayse0
- Outcome
- seed weight per fruit, 100-seed weighte0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“delaying fruit harvest from 30 to 50 DAA and extending in-situ storage from 0 to 15 days significantly increased the percentage of developed seeds, seed weight per fruit, 100-seed weight, membrane stability index, germination rate, and seedling vigor index.”
t0“cucumber (Cucumis sativus)”
Claim · model-written summary
Later harvest and longer storage increased membrane stability.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- delaying fruit harvest from 30 to 50 DAA and extending in-situ storage from 0 to 15 dayse0
- Outcome
- membrane stability indexe0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“delaying fruit harvest from 30 to 50 DAA and extending in-situ storage from 0 to 15 days significantly increased the percentage of developed seeds, seed weight per fruit, 100-seed weight, membrane stability index, germination rate, and seedling vigor index.”
t0“cucumber (Cucumis sativus)”
Claim · model-written summary
Later harvest and longer storage increased germination and seedling vigor.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- delaying fruit harvest from 30 to 50 DAA and extending in-situ storage from 0 to 15 dayse0
- Outcome
- germination rate, and seedling vigor indexe0
- Direction
- increasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“delaying fruit harvest from 30 to 50 DAA and extending in-situ storage from 0 to 15 days significantly increased the percentage of developed seeds, seed weight per fruit, 100-seed weight, membrane stability index, germination rate, and seedling vigor index.”
t0“cucumber (Cucumis sativus)”
Claim · model-written summary
Later harvest and longer storage reduced undeveloped seed percentage.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- harvest stage was delayed and the in-situ storage duration increasede0
- Outcome
- percentage of undeveloped seedse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the percentage of undeveloped seeds and the relative water content of seeds decreased as the harvest stage was delayed and the in-situ storage duration increased.”
t0“cucumber (Cucumis sativus)”
Claim · model-written summary
Later harvest and longer storage reduced seed relative water content.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativust0
- Treatment
- harvest stage was delayed and the in-situ storage duration increasede0
- Outcome
- relative water content of seedse0
- Direction
- decreasede0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the percentage of undeveloped seeds and the relative water content of seeds decreased as the harvest stage was delayed and the in-situ storage duration increased.”
t0“cucumber (Cucumis sativus)”
Claim · model-written summary
Authors recommend extracting Punjab Naveen seeds after 10 days in-situ storage from fruit harvested at 50 DAA.
- Taxon
- cucumberCucumis sativuse0
- Material
- Punjab Naveene0
- Outcome
- seeds should be extracted from fruits harvested at 50 DAA after 10 days of in-situ storagee0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“for optimal seed yield and quality in the cucumber variety Punjab Naveen, seeds should be extracted from fruits harvested at 50 DAA after 10 days of in-situ storage.”
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