Abstract
The use of selected plant water extracts to control pests and weeds is gaining growing attention in organic and sustainable agriculture, but the effects that such extracts may exert on the quality aspects of durum wheat are still unexplored. In 2014, 5 plant water extracts (Artemisia arborescens, Euphorbia characias, Rhus coriaria, Thymus vulgaris, Lantana camara) were prepared and distributed on durum wheat cv Valbelice to evaluate their potential herbicidal effects. After crop harvesting, the major physicochemical and technological parameters of wholemeal flours obtained from each treatment were measured and compared with those from chemical weeding and untreated controls. A baking test was also performed to evaluate the breadmaking quality. In wholemeal flours obtained after the treatment with plant extracts protein and dry gluten content were higher than in control and chemical weeding. Wholemeal flours obtained after chemical weeding reached the highest Mixograph parameters, and that from durum wheat treated with R. coriaria extract demonstrated a very high α-amylase activity. We concluded that the treatments with plant water extracts may influence many quality traits of durum wheat. This occurrence must be taken into account in overall decisions concerning the use of plant extracts in pest and weed management practice.
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Claims 4
Claim · model-written summary
Plant water extracts increased durum wheat flour protein and dry gluten relative to both controls.
- Taxon
- durum wheat
Triticum turgidum subsp. durume1 - Material
- Valbelicee1
- Treatment
- treatment with plant extractse0
- Outcome
- protein and dry gluten contente0
- Direction
- highere0
- Comparator
- control and chemical weedinge0
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Verbatim
e0“In wholemeal flours obtained after the treatment with plant extracts protein and dry gluten content were higher than in control and chemical weeding”
e1“durum wheat cv Valbelice”
Claim · model-written summary
Chemical weeding produced the highest Mixograph parameters in durum wheat flour.
- Taxon
- durum wheatTriticum turgidum subsp. durume1
- Treatment
- chemical weedinge0
- Outcome
- Mixograph parameterse0
- Direction
- higheste0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“Wholemeal flours obtained after chemical weeding reached the highest Mixograph parameters”
e1“durum wheat cv Valbelice”
Claim · model-written summary
R. coriaria extract yielded very high α-amylase activity in durum wheat flour.
- Taxon
- durum wheatTriticum turgidum subsp. durume0
- Treatment
- R. coriaria extracte0
- Outcome
- α-amylase activitye0
- Direction
- very highe0
Not reportedComparator
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Verbatim
e0“that from durum wheat treated with R. coriaria extract demonstrated a very high α-amylase activity”
Claim · model-written summary
The authors advise considering flour quality effects when using plant extracts for wheat pest and weed management.
- Taxon
- durum wheatTriticum turgidum subsp. durume0
- Outcome
- overall decisions concerning the use of plant extracts in pest and weed management practicee0
- Qualifier
- may influence many quality traitse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“the treatments with plant water extracts may influence many quality traits of durum wheat. This occurrence must be taken into account in overall decisions concerning the use of plant extracts in pest and weed management practice”
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