FIGURE 5.

Repetitive treatments with Cucurbitaceae COld Peeling Extract (CCOPE) derived from melon (Cucumis melo var. cantalupensis; mCOPE) do not affect rice growth or development. Rice plants were grown under greenhouse conditions and foliarly treated on a biweekly basis with the buffer used for CCOPE preparation (Control) or mCOPE. The illustrated data were assessed when seeds were ready to be harvested (i.e., after a growth period of approximately 4 months). Error bars represent the standard error of the mean. No significant differences were detected upon comparison of mCOPE-treated plants with mock-treated control plants using a two-sided heteroscedastic t-test (p < 0.05).