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Effect of Fruit Thinning and Foliar Fertilization under the Low Light Intensity in Oriental Melon(Cucumis melo L. var. makuwa MAKINO)  

서태철 (원예연구소 채소재배과)
강용구 (원예연구소 채소재배과)
윤형권 (원예연구소 채소재배과)
김영철 (원예연구소 채소재배과)
서효덕 (원예연구소 채소재배과)
이상규 (원예연구소 채소재배과)
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Journal of Bio-Environment Control / v.12, no.1, 2003 , pp. 17-21 More about this Journal
Abstract
This experiment was conducted to find out the method of preventing decrease in the marketable yield of oriental melon (Cucumis melo L. var. makuwa MAKINO) under low light intensity. By maintaining low light of 400 $\mu$mol$.$m$^{[-10]}$ 2$.$S$^{-1}$ from 10 days after fruit set to fruit enlargement period, the photosynthetic rate and chlorophyll contents of leaf were reduced. Leaves which had no urea application showed largely decreased photosynthetic rate The content of soluble solids was lower$.$ in the low light than natural light treatment. Regardless of foliar application of urea, % fermentation fruits was under 4% in the natural light treatment and over 10% in the low light treatment. The less the fruit thinning, the greater was % fermentation fruits under low light condition. The % fermentation fruits were 39% and 40% in no fruit thinning treatment. The harvest was delayed under low light condition regardless of foliar fertilization. As the number of thinned fruits was decreased, the harvest time was delayed more. Marketable yield per plant sharply decreased under low light intensity. Compared with natural light, the yield under low light treatment was 16∼34%. The treatment fertilized with 0.5% urea on leaf had 34% greater harvest index of marketable yield than other treatments. In conclusion, when the long low light condition from 10th day after fruiting was forecasted, thinning two fruits out of six fruits and two times foliar fertilization with 0.5% urea should be applied.
Keywords
photosynthesis; chlorophyll; foliar fertilization; fruit thinning; low light;
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