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Nutritional value of vegetable Amaranthus tricolor L. seedlings grown in Moscow region
- Authors: Sergiev I.G.1, Todorova D.A.1, Gins V.K.2, Motyleva S.M.3, Gins E.M.4, Moskalev E.A.4
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- Federal Scientific Vegetable Center
- All-Russian Horticultural Institute for Breeding, Agrotechnology and Nursery
- Lorch Potato Research Institute
- Issue: Vol 14, No 3 (2019)
- Pages: 225-238
- Section: Crop production
- URL: https://agrojournal.rudn.ru/agronomy/article/view/19509
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-797X-2019-14-3-225-238
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The use of amperometric express method made it possible to measure quickly and evaluate content of waterand alcohol-soluble antioxidants in extracts from Amaranthus tricolor L. plants. Accumulation of low molecular weight antioxidants: ascorbic acid, beta-cyanine (amaranthine) and the total content of antioxidants in various organs of Valentina amaranth seedlings were studied. The maximum amount of low molecular weight antioxidants accumulates in leaves, compared with roots and stems of seedlings grown in open and protected ground. In open ground conditions, amaranth leaves and stems have 1.5-fold and 2-fold increased level of ascorbic acid than seedlings grown in protected ground. But the total content of water-soluble antioxidants in leaves and roots of seedlings is lower compared to seedlings of protected ground. Minimum amount of antioxidants was found in alcohol extracts of stems and roots in open ground, while the total content of antioxidants in stems and roots was 1.6 fold higher in seedlings grown in protected soil. The content of amaranthine is comparable in the studied organs of amaranth seedlings of both cultivation variants. The data obtained allow to recommend use of leaves and stems of amaranth seedlings grown in open and protected ground (early spring and autumn), as a preventive antioxidant dietary product.
About the authors
Iskren Georgiev Sergiev
Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: iskren@bio21.bas.bg
Associate professor, PhD, Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics
Sofia, BulgariaDesislava Aleksandrova Todorova
Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Email: dessita@bio21.bas.bg
Associate professor, PhD, Institute of Plant Physiology and Genetics
Sofia, BulgariaValentina Karlovna Gins
Federal Scientific Vegetable Center
Email: anirr@bk.ru
Doctor of Biological Sciences, professor, chief researcher at Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry and Introduction
VNIISSOK village, Russian FederationSvetlana Mikhailovna Motyleva
All-Russian Horticultural Institute for Breeding, Agrotechnology and Nursery
Email: iskren@bio21.bas.bg
Candidate of Agricultural Science, Associate Professor, Head of Laboratory of Physiology and Biochemistry
Moscow, Russian FederationEkaterina Muratovna Gins
Lorch Potato Research Institute
Email: iskren@bio21.bas.bg
Junior Researcher
Kraskovo village, Moscow Region, Russian FederationEvgeny Aleksandrovich Moskalev
Lorch Potato Research Institute
Email: iskren@bio21.bas.bg
Junior Researcher
Kraskovo village, Moscow Region, Russian FederationReferences
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