WP 2. Cucurbita nutritional quality and agronomic yield: adaptability to drought and suboptimal fertilization
Assessing Cucurbita moschata, maxima, and pepo response to drought and suboptimal fertilization, in terms of nutritional quality and agronomic yield, by using phenotypically divergent material
2.1. Processing data from previously performed multi-year field trials aimed to screen Cucurbita spp. breeding collection (>120 accessions in total) in terms of fruit flesh nutritional quality and agronomic yield
2.2. Field trial: divergent Cucurbita spp. accessions grown under contrasting mineral nutrition and water availability regimes
2.3. Biochemical analyses of general parameters of nutritional quality
2.4. Results interpretation