MAXIMIZATION CARROT MINERALS PRESERVE AND ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITY BY FOLIAR APPLICATION OF AQUEOUS BARLEY SPROUTS EXTRACT, TREHALOSE, AND CALCIUM

Aseel M H H Al-Khafaji,Kadhim D H Al-Jubouri

doi:10.36103/ijas.v53i1.1515

Abstract

This research was implemented at vegetable field of the College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences - University of Baghdad during fall seasons, 2018 and 2019. The experiment was conducted using factorial within Randomized Complete Block Design arrangement with three factors and replicates (3X3X2). The aqueous barley sprouts extract (B0, B1) (0, 100 g.L-1) represented the first factor. Trehalose (T0, T1, T2) (0, 50, 75 mmole.L-1) represented the second factor. Calcium (C0, C1, C2) (0, 1, 2 ml.L-1) represented the third factor. The research objectives are assessing the impact of the mentioned factors and their interactions on carrot plant minerals and antioxidant accumulation. Results showed the effectiveness of three ways interaction treatment B1T2C1 in producing significant increases in phosphorus (0.302, 0.311%) total carotenoids (15.83, 15.93 mg.100-1g), β carotene (7.9, 7.967 mg.100-1g) and DPPH (97.94, 98.41%) in roots for both seasons respectively.in compare with control treatment B0T0C0.

Highlights

We need to uncover the role of barley aqueous sprouted Grains, trehalose, and Calcium on P, Ca tissue preserve, and antioxidant potency in carrot plant
Table 4 A showed that B1T2C2 significantly influenced the percentage of calcium in leaves (2.932, 2.933%) and roots (1.298, 1.311%) for both seasons respectively, compared to the lowest percentages produced by B0T0C0 for both seasons.The results of Table 3 B indicated that there were significant differences in two ways interaction between the aqueous extract of barley sprouts and trihalose. (B1T2) produced the highest percentage of phosphorus in leaves (0.347, 0.362%) and roots (0.248, 0.258%) for both seasons respectively
The results of the two ways interaction between calcium and trehalose (Table 3B) showed the consistent differences between treatments, T2C1 treatment increased P percentage in leaves (0.343, 0.356%) and roots (0.245, 0.253%) for both seasons respectively compared to the lowest percentages in T0C0

Summary

Introduction

Health food awareness has risen in recent years. That resulted from aggravation of health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, cancers, autoimmune, and gastrointestinal diseases since of applying wrong diets for several decades [18]. With reference to the interaction between aqueous germinated barley grains extract and calcium (Table 3B); B1C1 showed the highest percent of P in both tested tissues (leaves, roots) for both seasons than the control plants.

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