{"id":417,"date":"2011-09-23T09:41:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/?p=417"},"modified":"2011-09-23T09:44:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T15:44:42","slug":"proof-of-concept-prize-winning-pumpkin-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/23\/proof-of-concept-prize-winning-pumpkin-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof of Concept &#8211; Prize Winning Pumpkin Update?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ultimately we were unable to simply grow a pumpkin and leave well enough alone. \u00a0Based on recent findings in the lab (Kharenko et al 2011 Biochemical J) we ended up subjecting the pumpkin to field trial drought stress tests in mid-August. \u00a0Induction of ABA was anticipated to lead to stimulation of energy production and a larger pumpkin. \u00a0However the drought stage lasted longer than anticipated leading to death of the vine and a permanent end to fruit growth. \u00a0 No amount of moisture re-application would revive the vine and we harvested in mid-September. \u00a0 \u00a0Non-the less, the pumpkin weighed in at about 5 pounds, 6 ounces displaying unique and what we believe to be prize winning characteristics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pumpkin-final-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-419\" title=\"Pumpkin final 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pumpkin-final-11-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pumpkin-final-11-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pumpkin-final-11.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pumpkin-final-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-420\" title=\"Pumpkin final 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pumpkin-final-2-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pumpkin-final-2-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pumpkin-final-2-1023x762.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Pumpkin-final-2.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultimately we were unable to simply grow a pumpkin and leave well enough alone. \u00a0Based on recent findings in the lab (Kharenko et al 2011 Biochemical J) we ended up subjecting the pumpkin to field trial drought stress tests in mid-August. \u00a0Induction of ABA was anticipated to lead to stimulation of energy production and a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/23\/proof-of-concept-prize-winning-pumpkin-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Proof of Concept &#8211; Prize Winning Pumpkin Update?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loewenlabs.com\/michele\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}