Impact of Two Brown Seaweed (Ascophyllum nodosum L.) Biostimulants on the Quantity and Quality of Yield in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Fruit Sampling
2.2. Extraction and Determination of Plastid Pigments and Tocopherols
2.3. Chemicals
2.4. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Yield of Cucumbers
3.2. Fruit Parameters
3.3. Plastid Pigments and Tocopherols in Cucumber
3.3.1. Plastid Pigments and Tocopherols in Cucumber Flesh
3.3.2. Plastid Pigments and Tocopherols in Cucumber Skin
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Control | Fitostim® Alga | Phylgreen® |
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Phylgreen® | Control | Fitostim® Alga |
Fitostim® Alga | Phylgreen® | Control |
Dry Weight | Number of Fruits | Fruit Part | Treatment | Harvest Date | Total Pigments | Total Tocopherol | Yield | Color | |
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Dry weight | 0.5258 | −0.0061 | −0.2037 | 0.5641 | 0.0193 | −0.0304 | 0.5358 | 0.0461 | |
Number of fruits | −0.0104 | −0.0597 | 0.7878 | 0.0648 | −0.0346 | 0.9936 | 0.2493 | ||
Fruit part | −0.0142 | −0.0286 | 0.9709 | 0.9562 | −0.0096 | 0.9636 | |||
Treatment | −0.0175 | −0.0049 | −0.0418 | −0.1389 | 0.8963 | ||||
Harvest date | 0.0125 | −0.1451 | 0.7895 | 0.4678 | |||||
Total pigments | 0.9518 | 0.0613 | 0.9862 | ||||||
Total tocopherol | −0.0353 | 0.5377 | |||||||
Yield | 0.0579 |
8 June 2018 (1st Harvest) | 20 June 2018 (2nd Harvest) | 4 July 2018 (3rd Harvest) | Average Measured Values | ||||||||||
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Control | Phylgreen® | Fitostim® Algae | Control | Phylgreen® | Fitostim® Algae | Control | Phylgreen® | Fitostim® Algae | Control | Phylgreen® | Fitostim® Algae | ||
Skin color | a* | −3.85 ± 0.37 a,† | −3.04 ± 0.36 b | −4.03 ± 0.48 a | −3.78 ± 0.51 a | −3.61 ± 0.07 a | −3.63 ± 0.10 a | −4.90 ± 0.20 a | −4.11 ± 0.22 a | −4.44 ± 0.60 a | −4.17 ± 0.24 a | −3.58 ± 0.71 b | −4.03 ± 0.31 a |
b* | 5.47 ± 0.68 a | 4.32 ± 1.66 b | 6.49 ± 0.63 a | 5.28 ± 0.96 a | 4.72 ± 0.17 a | 4.63 ± 0.32 a | 7.78 ± 0.53 a | 5.74 ± 0.60 c | 6.35 ± 1.43 b | 6.17 ± 0.22 a | 4.92 ± 0.30 b | 5.82 ± 0.42 a | |
L* | 23.48 ± 0.71 a | 21.47 ± 2.26 b | 20.81 ± 1.53 c | 25.12 ± 1.62 a | 23.99 ± 0.99 a | 24.09 ± 0.50 a | 25.11 ± 0.53 a | 23.47 ± 0.67 b | 23.55 ± 1.04 b | 24.56 ± 0.99 a | 22.97 ± 1.42 b | 22.81 ± 1.22 b | |
Dry weight | 3.47 ± 0.11 b | 3.47 ± 0.21 b | 3.66 ± 0.17 a | 3.89 ± 0.05 a | 3.79 ± 0.27 a | 3.89 ± 0.31 a | 4.27 ± 0.42 a | 4.08 ± 0.20 a | 3.90 ± 0.27 a | 3.87 ± 0.11 a | 3.78 ± 0.15 a | 3.81 ± 0.13 a | |
Flesh diameter | 27.04 ± 0.66 a | 26.46 ± 0.67 a | 26.09 ± 0.49 a | 29.08 ± 0.37 a | 26.90 ± 0.33 a | 29.53 ± 0.39 a | 29.49 ± 1.28 a | 28.60 ± 1.00 a | 27.00 ± 1.23 a | 28.53 ± 1.04 a | 27.32 ± 0.99 a | 27.54 ± 1.23 a | |
Placenta diameter | 22.50 ± 1.20 a | 21.56 ± 1.10 a | 21.71 ± 0.95 a | 21.18 ± 1.04 a | 21.02 ± 1.31 a | 20.76 ± 0.39 a | 20.44 ± 1.65 a | 20.84 ± 1.20 a | 20.07 ± 1.05 a | 21.37 ± 2.44 a | 21.14 ± 1.99 a | 20.84 ± 2.05 a |
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Zamljen, T.; Šircelj, H.; Veberič, R.; Hudina, M.; Slatnar, A. Impact of Two Brown Seaweed (Ascophyllum nodosum L.) Biostimulants on the Quantity and Quality of Yield in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). Foods 2024, 13, 401. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13030401
Zamljen T, Šircelj H, Veberič R, Hudina M, Slatnar A. Impact of Two Brown Seaweed (Ascophyllum nodosum L.) Biostimulants on the Quantity and Quality of Yield in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). Foods. 2024; 13(3):401. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13030401
Chicago/Turabian StyleZamljen, Tilen, Helena Šircelj, Robert Veberič, Metka Hudina, and Ana Slatnar. 2024. "Impact of Two Brown Seaweed (Ascophyllum nodosum L.) Biostimulants on the Quantity and Quality of Yield in Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.)" Foods 13, no. 3: 401. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13030401