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Advance in Impact of Agro-Technological Measures on Quality of Grain
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Advance in Impact of Agro-Technological Measures on Quality of Grain

A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Nutrition".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 August 2024 | Viewed by 1172

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Jurgita Ceseviciene

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Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Instituto al. 1, Akademija, LT 58344 Kedainiai, Lithuania
Interests: chemical composition and technological quality of plants, grains, and their products; impact of various agrotechnological measures on plant food resources, fodder, energy crops, and industrial processing
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Dear Colleagues,

The questions of grain’s nutritional value and technological properties will always be relevant, but in the near future, they will become especially important in terms of reduced intensification and the transition to a sustainable cultivation technology. Grain quality is strongly affected by soil, agro-technologies, and environmental factors; it is also influenced by changes observed as a result of the warming climate, which is associated with changing meteorological conditions. The application of new-generation varieties, ancient subspecies, adapted agro-technologies, innovative technological processes, and the non-typical use of grain can be linked not only with higher quality but also with the use of a wide range of phytonutrients for health promotion and disease prevention as well as for fostering a healthy diet and using natural components. This Special Issue of the Plants journal will cover all the above aspects to highlight the peculiarities and challenges of grain composition, its quality, and its technological properties in various agro-technological measures. This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality research articles, short communications, opinion papers, and review articles on the topic of the Impact of Agro-Technological Measures on Quality of Grain.

Dr. Jurgita Ceseviciene
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • agronomic management
  • grains (cereals, pulses, legumes, pseudocereals, oilseeds)
  • grain composition and quality
  • technological properties, innovative technologies

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A Preliminary Study of the Impacts of Duckweed Coverage during Rice Growth on Grain Yield and Quality
by Jingsheng Luo, Shaowu Hu, Tong Li, Fuhao He, Chao Tian, Yu Han, Yulin Mao, Liquan Jing, Lianxin Yang and Yunxia Wang
Plants 2024, 13(1), 57; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13010057 - 23 Dec 2023
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The overuse and misuse of fertilizers have been causing duckweed outbreaks in irrigation ditches and paddy fields in many rice-growing areas. However, how duckweed coverage in a paddy field affects the rice yield and grain quality is under debate because duckweed may act [...] Read more.
The overuse and misuse of fertilizers have been causing duckweed outbreaks in irrigation ditches and paddy fields in many rice-growing areas. However, how duckweed coverage in a paddy field affects the rice yield and grain quality is under debate because duckweed may act as either a weed, competing with rice for mineral nutrients, or a “nutrient buffer”, providing significant ecological and economic benefits. To understand the effects of duckweed coverage throughout rice growth on the yield and quality of rice grains, an experiment with three Japonica rice cultivars was conducted with fertile lotus-pond bottom soil as a growth medium to provide sufficient mineral nutrients for both the duckweed and rice. Averaged across three rice cultivars, duckweed coverage decreased the panicle density but increased the spikelet density and grain weight, resulting in no significant change in the rice yield. Duckweed coverage had no impact on the processing and appearance quality in general, but significant duckweed-by-cultivar interactions were detected in the head rice percentage and grain chalkiness, indicating different sensitivities of different cultivars in response to the duckweed treatment. The decrease in breakdown and increase in setback values in the rapid visco analyzer (RVA) profile of rice flour suggested that duckweed coverage during rice growth worsened the cooking quality of the rice. However, no significant change in the palatability of the cooked rice was found. The most profound change induced by the duckweed was the nutritional quality; duckweed coverage increased the protein concentration but decreased the concentrations of Mg, Mn, Cu, and Zn in rice grains. This preliminary study suggested that duckweed coverage during rice growth has profound effects on the rice nutrient uptake and grain nutritional quality under the circumstances, and further research on the responses of the rice quality to the duckweed coverage in paddy fields in multiple locations and years is needed. Full article
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