Combined Effect of Salinity and LED Lights on the Yield and Quality of Purslane (Portulaca oleracea L.) Microgreens

Horticulturae

Giuseppina Pennisi¹  Francesco Orsini¹  Juan A. Fernández²  Almudena Giménez²  María del Carmen Martínez-Ballesta²  Perla A. Gómez²  Catalina Egea-Gilabert²  Francisco Artés-Hernández²  Andrea Crepaldi³ 

[1] Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences and Technologies, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy;Department of Agronomical Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, 30203 Cartagena, Spain;Flytech s.r.l., Via Dell’Artigianato 65, 32010 Paludi, Italy;

关键词: minerals;    fatty acids;    oxalate;    nitrate;    phytochemicals;    antioxidants;   

DOI  :  10.3390/horticulturae7070180

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The present work aims to explore the potential to improve quality of purslane microgreens by combining water salinity and LED lighting during their cultivation. Purslane plants were grown in a growth chamber with light insulated compartments, under different lighting sources on a 16 h d⁻¹ photoperiod—fluorescent lamps (FL) and two LED treatments, including a red and blue (RB)) spectrum and a red, blue and far red (RB+IR) LED lights spectrum—while providing all of them a light intensity of 150 µmol m⁻² s⁻¹. Plants were exposed to two salinity treatments, by adding 0 or 80 mM NaCl. Biomass, cation and anions, total phenolics (TPC) and flavonoids content (TFC), total antioxidant capacity (TAC), total chlorophylls (Chl) and carotenoids content (Car) and fatty acids were determined. The results showed that yield was increased by 21% both in RB and RB+FR lights compared to FL and in salinity compared to non-salinity conditions. The nitrate content was reduced by 81% and 91% when microgreens were grown under RB and RB+FR, respectively, as compared to FL light, and by 9.5% under saline conditions as compared with non-salinity conditions. The lowest oxalate contents were obtained with the combinations of RB or RB+FR lighting and salinity. The content of Cl and Na in the leaves were also reduced when microgreens were grown under RB and RB+FR lights under saline conditions. Microgreens grown under RB light reached the highest TPC, while salinity reduced TFC, Chl and Car. Finally, the fatty acid content was not affected by light or salinity, but these factors slightly influenced their composition. It is concluded that the use of RB and RB+FR lights in saline conditions is of potential use in purslane microgreens production, since it improves the yield and quality of the product, reducing the content of anti-nutritional compounds.

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