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Influence of Seed and Fruit Characteristics of Lagenaria siceraria on Production and Quality of Grafted Watermelon

Horticulturae, 2022
The use of Lagenaria siceraria rootstocks in watermelon production has favored fruit yield and quality under conditions of environmental stress. However, it is necessary to know if the differential characteristics of fruit and seed L.
Angel Manuel Suárez-Hernández, Onecimo Grimaldo-Juárez, Carlos Ceceña-Durán, Juan Carlos Vázquez-Angulo, Laura Dennisse Carrazco-Peña, Leonel Avendaño-Reyes, Carlos Enrique Ail-Catzim, Ulin Antobelli Basilio-Cortes, Azareel Angulo-Castro   +8 more
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Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Watermelon Grafted onto 10 Wild Watermelon Rootstocks under Low Nitrogen Conditions

Agronomy, 2018
Nitrogen availability is the key determinant of plant growth and development. The improvement of nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) in crops is an important consideration.
Muhammad Azher Nawaz, Xiaojie Han, Chen Chen, Zuhua Zheng, Fareeha Shireen, Zhilong Bie, Yuan Huang   +6 more
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Effect of Cold Stress on Growth, Physiological Characteristics, and Calvin-Cycle-Related Gene Expression of Grafted Watermelon Seedlings of Different Gourd Rootstocks

Horticulturae, 2021
Recently, grafting has been used to improve abiotic stress resistance in crops. Here, using watermelon ‘Zaojia 8424’ (Citrullus lanatus) as scions, three different gourds (Lagenaria siceraria, 0526, 2505, and 1226) as rootstocks, and non-grafted plants ...
Kaixing Lu, Jiutong Sun, Li Qiuping
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Crossbreeding Rootstocks Improve Nitrogen Efficiency of Grafted Watermelon by Inducing Leaf Physiological and Root Morphological Responses

Horticulturae, 2022
This is the first hydroponic study that evaluated the role of the heterotic plant characters of crossbreeding progenies and accessions which were used as rootstock for watermelon (scion) to improve the nitrogen (N) efficiency of this crop by grafting ...
Abdullah Ulas
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Cell Wall Polysaccharide Composition of Grafted ‘Liberty’ Watermelon With Reduced Incidence of Hollow Heart Defect

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Grafting watermelon scions to interspecific squash hybrids has been found to increase fruit firmness. Triploid (seedless) watermelon are prone to hollow heart (HH), an internal fruit disorder characterized by a crack in the placental tissue expanding to ...
Penelope Perkins-Veazie, Perkins-Veazie Penelope   +1 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Rootstocks Affected Postharvest Performance of Grafted ‘Crisby’ and ‘Crimson Tide’ Watermelon Cultivars

Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2018
Watermelon fruit from ‘Crisby’ (CR) and ‘Crimson Tide’ (CT) grafted onto Ferro, RS841, Argentario and Macis rootstocks and non-grafted CR and CT were compared for their postharvest quality at 7 °C for 21 days.
Ahmet Erhan Özdemir, Elif Çandır
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Assessing Quantitative Criteria for Characterization of Quality Categories for Grafted Watermelon Seedlings

Horticulturae, 2019
Vegetable grafting is a practice employed worldwide since it helps prevent biotic and abiotic disorders, and watermelon is one of the most important species grafted.
Filippos Bantis, Athanasios Koukounaras, Anastasios Siomos, Georgios Menexes, Christodoulos Dangitsis, Damianos Kintzonidis   +5 more
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An overview on watermelon grafting in Turkey

, 2010
Fruit bearing vegetables have been grafted for many years in East Asia to solve problems associated with intensive cultivation using limited agricultural land. Grafting in vegetables was introduced to Turkey in the late 20th century. The first experiment
TİTİZ, Savaş, SOLMAZ, İlknur, YETİŞİR, Halit, SARI, Nebahat   +3 more
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Rootstock effect on cold tolerance of grafted watermelon

, 2011
In this study, effect of rootstocks on plant growth in grafted watermelon under low temperature was investigated. Watermelon [Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum and Nakai) cultivar Crimson Tide was grafted onto five Lagenaria siceraria landraces, one ...
YETİŞİR, Halit, KARACA, Fatih
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Growth behaviour and fruit productivity of watermelon as an affected with grafting onto different rootstock genotypes [PDF]

Archives of Agriculture Sciences Journal, 2021
The experiments were conducted on watermelon (Citrullus lanatus L.) at an a private farm in Awlad Amr village, Qena city, Qena, Egypt located between 26° 10′ 0″ N, 32° 43′ 0″ E during the two consecutive spring-summer seasons of 2018 and 2019 ...
M. Abd El-Mageed, M. Ahmad, N. Younes
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