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| Effect of Different Fertilizer Application on Growth，Yield and Quality of Graft Pellicular Muskmelon |
| ZHAO Yi-jie1，WU Yu-feng2，CHEN Yi-zhao1，LIN Hang1，CHEN Sheng2，ZHANG Wei-guang2* |
| 1Fuzhou Institute of Agricultural Sciences，Fuzhou 350018，Fujian，China；Agricultural Bio-resource Institute，Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences，Fuzhou 350003，Fujian，China |
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Abstract In this paper，the effect of different fertilizer application on growth，yield and quality of graft pellicular muskmelon（Cucumis melo L. var. makuwa Makino）was studied by adopting 4 kinds of fertilizer including controlled-release fertilizers，organic fertilizer，organic-inorganic compound fertilizers and complex fertilizer as basic fertilizer．This research was designed by equal fertilizer price which was invested in every muskmelon plant，taking complex fertilizer application as contrast．The results showed that 35 days after planting，by applying organic-inorganic compound fertilizers the thickness of scion main stem and the length of the first tendril were all significantly larger than that by other treatments．But the yield and quality of pellicular muskmelon were remarkably dropped down．By applying controlled-release fertilizers，the weight of single fruit of pellicular muskmelon improved 3.1%，its yield increased 7.3%，and the content of soluble solid matter rose 1.5%．The quality of pellicular muskmelon was the best，because of applying organic fertilizer．But the yield decreased 17.7%．The integrated review believes that controlled-release fertilizers are ideal basic fertilizer for graft pellicular muskmelon.
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Received: 27 February 2012
Published: 31 August 2012
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