Table 2.

Summary of measured traits across the ten melon accessions. Data represent the mean ± SD. Different letters indicate significant statistical differences between accessions for each trait according to Tukey’s HSD test (α < 0.05).

Accession	Length (mm)	Surface Area (cm 2 )	Root Diameter (mm)	Root Volume (cm 3 )	Pulling (N)	Shoot_Wt (g)	Root_Wt (g)	S/R ratio	SRL (g m − 1 )	SRA (g cm − 2 )	SRV (g cm − 3 )
AY	1535.04 ± 240.14a	312.28 ± 86.15a	0.64 ± 0.08a	5.12 ± 2.06a	11.52 ± 2.22a	1.64 ± 0.03a	0.28 ± 0.04a	5.81 ± 0.89bc	5.05 ± 0.68d	0.95 ± 0.15b	14.53 ± 1.21bc
DUL	1041.26 ± 299.29ab	159.55 ± 55.51b	0.48 ± 0.03b	1.95 ± 0.8b	1.80 ± 0.92c	0.56 ± 0.10c	0.10 ± 0.03c	5.28 ± 0.14bc	9.06 ± 0.49a	1.3 ± 0.09a	14.98 ± 2.20bc
NA	891.54 ± 494.89ab	140.85 ± 64.25b	0.52 ± 0.07ab	1.8 ± 0.75b	4.03 ± 2.14bc	0.86 ± 0.18bc	0.14 ± 0.01bc	6.16 ± 1.22bc	6.38 ± 0.48c	0.99 ± 0.03b	12.49 ± 1.41c
NY	1516.46 ± 389.45a	240.81 ± 64.44ab	0.51 ± 0.04ab	3.06 ± 0.89ab	5.80 ± 2.60bc	1.16 ± 0.29ab	0.18 ± 0.07ab	6.36 ± 0.62b	7.59 ± 0.52b	1.22 ± 0.05a	15.66 ± 2.74bc
PI414723	700.78 ± 167.29b	166.04 ± 76.41ab	0.74 ± 0.29a	3.48 ± 2.76ab	8.25 ± 2.49ab	1.61 ± 0.31a	0.21 ± 0.04ab	7.68 ± 0.68a	3.64 ± 0.17e	0.78 ± 0.04c	14.74 ± 2.03bc
PSR	1333.99 ± 367.51ab	222.71 ± 81.56ab	0.52 ± 0.08ab	3.01 ± 1.47ab	5.48 ± 2.44bc	1.23 ± 0.21ab	0.17 ± 0.05b	7.86 ± 1.31a	7.45 ± 1.12abc	1.19 ± 0.02ab	15.28 ± 2.71bc
QME	1014.69 ± 218.27ab	173.36 ± 53.06ab	0.54 ± 0.06ab	2.38 ± 0.97ab	1.72 ± 0.96c	0.62 ± 0.05	0.14 ± 0.02bc	4.39 ± 0.80c	7.66 ± 1.02b	1.28 ± 0.08a	17.13 ± 2.56ab
SAS	1139.69 ± 295.13ab	189.87 ± 78.66ab	0.51 ± 0.11ab	2.58 ± 1.45ab	5.60 ± 1.55abc	0.73 ± 0.15c	0.11 ± 0.02c	5.58 ± 0.57bc	8.29 ± 0.34ab	1.26 ± 0.17ab	15.75 ± 2.10b
TAD	1184.71 ± 510.43ab	238.42 ± 116.81ab	0.62 ± 0.07ab	3.84 ± 2.1ab	9.93 ± 3.79ab	0.72 ± 0.25c	0.20 ± 0.06ab	3.23 ± 0.25d	6.42 ± 0.71c	1.24 ± 0.24ab	19.15 ± 0.49a
VEP	941.06 ± 590.78ab	167.65 ± 77.81ab	0.64 ± 0.20ab	2.48 ± 0.71ab	4.16 ± 2.56bc	0.57 ± 0.03c	0.14 ± 0.02bc	4.00 ± 0.74 cd	5.29 ± 0.19d	0.95 ± 0.15bc	14.06 ± 0.28 cd