Claim · model-written summary
Both selenate doses increased head fresh weight in Belstar.
- Taxon
- broccoli
Brassica oleracea var. italicat0 - Material
- Belstare0
- Treatment
- both doses of selenatee0
- Outcome
- head fresh weighte0
- Direction
- increasee0
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Verbatim
e0“both doses of selenate and the highest dose of selenite induced a significant increase in the head fresh weight (FW) only in cultivar Belstar”
t0“broccoli”
Title
Improving the foliar biofortification of broccoli with selenium without commercial quality losses
Fernando Felipe Muñoz; María Micaela Stoffel; Gabriel Céccoli; et al. Crop Science 2021. doi:10.1002/csc2.20630
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect The highest selenite dose increased head fresh weight in Belstar.
- Intervention effect Selenium treatment and cultivar had no significant effect on head dry matter.
- Observation Water use efficiency increased in Belstar.
- Observation Transpiration rate fell in Belstar.
- Intervention effect Selenium treatment maintained green head color at harvest.
- Intervention effect Selenium treatment did not affect head firmness or diameter at harvest.
- Intervention effect Selenate increased selenium content of heads with dose in both cultivars.
- Recommendation The authors recommend foliar selenium salts to enrich broccoli without loss of commercial quality.