Claim · model-written summary
Selenium treatment did not affect head firmness or diameter at harvest.
- Taxon
- broccoli
Brassica oleracea var. italicat0 - Treatment
- selenium treatmentse0
- Outcome
- firmness and diameter of the headse0
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Verbatim
e0“selenium treatments before harvest maintained the green color and did not affect the firmness and diameter of the heads at harvest”
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 Both selenate doses increased head fresh weight in Belstar.
- 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 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.