Claim · model-written summary
Iron dosing did not significantly increase iron content in kale microgreens.
- Taxon
- kale
Brassica oleracea var. viridise1 - Organ / stage
- microgreense0
- Treatment
- Higher amounts of iron in the nutrient solutione0
- Outcome
- levels of irone0
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Verbatim
e0“Higher amounts of iron in the nutrient solution resulted in significantly higher levels of iron only in pea microgreens”
t0“crops grown in a vertical farm”
e1“In this study, we investigated the effect of the addition of 20ppm (+20 mg L −1 ) of zinc (ZnSO 4 ) or iron (Fe-EDTA) to the nutrient solution on the growth and nutritional components in pea microgreens, kale microgreens and kale baby leaf plants”
Title
Zinc and iron biofortification of crops grown in a vertical farm
A. Bucky; M. Pičmanová; V. Porley; et al. Proceedings of The Nutrition Society 2024. doi:10.1017/s0029665124004804
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Intervention effect Zinc dosing increased zinc content in pea microgreens by 205% relative to controls.
- Intervention effect Zinc dosing increased zinc content in baby leaf kale by 264% relative to controls.
- Intervention effect Zinc dosing increased zinc content in kale microgreens by 217% relative to controls.
- Intervention effect Iron dosing increased iron content in pea microgreens by 38%.
- Intervention effect Iron dosing did not significantly increase iron content in baby leaf kale.
- Observation Neither zinc nor iron dosing negatively affected crop performance.