Claim · model-written summary
Early sowing changed total anthocyanins by -21%.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse0 - Treatment
- early sowinge0
- Outcome
- total anthocyaninse0
- Direction
- decreasee0
- Value
- -21%e0
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Verbatim
e0“The early sowing also significantly influenced the chemical composition of corn grains, with an increase in the concentration of cell-wall-bound phenolic acids (+5%) and β-cryptoxanthin (+23%) and a decrease in the concentration of lutein (-18%) and total anthocyanins (-21%).”
Title
Debora Giordano; Trust Beta; Federica Gagliardi; et al. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 2018. doi:10.1021/acs.jafc.8b00326
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Intervention effect Early sowing changed grain yield by +26%.
- Intervention effect Early sowing changed thousand kernel weight by +3%.
- Intervention effect Early sowing changed test weight by +2%.
- Intervention effect Early sowing changed concentration of cell-wall-bound phenolic acids by +5%.
- Intervention effect Early sowing changed β-cryptoxanthin by +23%.
- Intervention effect Early sowing changed concentration of lutein by -18%.
- Association Grain-development environmental conditions significantly influenced corn grain phytochemical content.
- Recommendation The authors suggest early spring sowing could benefit productivity and some antioxidant content of whole-meal corn flour.