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Enhancing Quality of Fresh Vegetables Through Salinity Eustress and Biofortification Applications Facilitated by Soilless Cultivation

Youssef Rouphael, Marios C. Kyriacou

Frontiers in Plant Science · 2018

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Summary

Closed soilless cultivation systems (SCS) support high productivity and optimized year-round production of standardized quality. Efficiency and precision in modulating nutrient solution composition, in addition to controlling temperature, light, and atmospheric composition, renders protected SCS instrumental for augmenting organoleptic and bioactive components of quality. Effective application of eustress (positive stress), such as moderate salinity or nutritional stress, can elicit tailored plant responses involving the activation of physiological and molecular mechanisms and the strategic accumulation of bioactive compounds necessary for adaptation to suboptimal environments. For instance, it has been demonstrated that the application of salinity eustress increases non-structural carbohy

Subject
Micronutrient biofortification
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Horticulture
DOI
10.3389/fpls.2018.01254
Catalogue ID
SNmp4zkmhb-66qvfj
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