Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend foliar selenium salts to enrich broccoli without loss of commercial quality.
- Taxon
- broccoli
Brassica oleracea var. italicae0 - Outcome
- use of both selenium salts in foliar forme0
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Verbatim
e0“the use of both selenium salts in foliar form would be a good strategy to obtain selenium‐enriched broccoli, without affecting the commercial quality of the heads”
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 Selenium treatment did not affect head firmness or diameter at harvest.
- Intervention effect Selenate increased selenium content of heads with dose in both cultivars.