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Salt-Affected Rocket Plants as a Possible Source of Glucosinolates
Soil salinity can have various negative consequences on agricultural products, from their quality and production to their aesthetic traits. In this work, the possibility to use salt-affected vegetables, that otherwise would be discarded, as a source of nutraceuticals was explored. To this aim, rocke...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10056271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36982584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24065510 |
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author | Corti, Emilio Falsini, Sara Gonnelli, Cristina Pieraccini, Giuseppe Nako, Besiana Papini, Alessio |
author_facet | Corti, Emilio Falsini, Sara Gonnelli, Cristina Pieraccini, Giuseppe Nako, Besiana Papini, Alessio |
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description | Soil salinity can have various negative consequences on agricultural products, from their quality and production to their aesthetic traits. In this work, the possibility to use salt-affected vegetables, that otherwise would be discarded, as a source of nutraceuticals was explored. To this aim, rocket plants, a vegetable featuring bioactive compounds such as glucosinolates, were exposed to increasing NaCl concentrations in hydroponics and analysed for their content in bioactive compounds. Salt levels higher than 68 mM produced rocket plants that did not comply with European Union regulations and would therefore be considered a waste product. Anyway, our findings, obtained by Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry, demonstrated a significant increase in glucosinolates levels in such salt-affected plants. opening the opportunity for a second life of these market discarded products to be recycled as glucosinolates source. Furthermore, an optimal situation was found at NaCl 34 mM in which not only were the aesthetic traits of rocket plants not affected, but also the plants revealed a significant enrichment in glucosinolates. This can be considered an advantageous situation in which the resulting vegetables still appealed to the market and showed improved nutraceutical aspects. |
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spelling | pubmed-100562712023-03-30 Salt-Affected Rocket Plants as a Possible Source of Glucosinolates Corti, Emilio Falsini, Sara Gonnelli, Cristina Pieraccini, Giuseppe Nako, Besiana Papini, Alessio Int J Mol Sci Article Soil salinity can have various negative consequences on agricultural products, from their quality and production to their aesthetic traits. In this work, the possibility to use salt-affected vegetables, that otherwise would be discarded, as a source of nutraceuticals was explored. To this aim, rocket plants, a vegetable featuring bioactive compounds such as glucosinolates, were exposed to increasing NaCl concentrations in hydroponics and analysed for their content in bioactive compounds. Salt levels higher than 68 mM produced rocket plants that did not comply with European Union regulations and would therefore be considered a waste product. Anyway, our findings, obtained by Liquid Chromatography-High Resolution Mass Spectrometry, demonstrated a significant increase in glucosinolates levels in such salt-affected plants. opening the opportunity for a second life of these market discarded products to be recycled as glucosinolates source. Furthermore, an optimal situation was found at NaCl 34 mM in which not only were the aesthetic traits of rocket plants not affected, but also the plants revealed a significant enrichment in glucosinolates. This can be considered an advantageous situation in which the resulting vegetables still appealed to the market and showed improved nutraceutical aspects. MDPI 2023-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10056271/ /pubmed/36982584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24065510 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Corti, Emilio Falsini, Sara Gonnelli, Cristina Pieraccini, Giuseppe Nako, Besiana Papini, Alessio Salt-Affected Rocket Plants as a Possible Source of Glucosinolates |
title | Salt-Affected Rocket Plants as a Possible Source of Glucosinolates |
title_full | Salt-Affected Rocket Plants as a Possible Source of Glucosinolates |
title_fullStr | Salt-Affected Rocket Plants as a Possible Source of Glucosinolates |
title_full_unstemmed | Salt-Affected Rocket Plants as a Possible Source of Glucosinolates |
title_short | Salt-Affected Rocket Plants as a Possible Source of Glucosinolates |
title_sort | salt-affected rocket plants as a possible source of glucosinolates |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10056271/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36982584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms24065510 |
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