Selenium biofortification in conditions of soil salinity improve some nutritional value parameters of spinach for the fresh market
Ewelina Grochowska, Marcin Niemiec, Monika Komorowska, Monika Kula-Maximenko, Tan Suat Hian, Abzal Abdramanov, Anna Gorczyca · 2026
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Ewelina Grochowska and six colleagues test in 2026 whether spraying selenium on spinach leaves can enrich the crop while it grows in salty soil. Salt-affected farmland is spreading worldwide, and selenium is a nutrient many diets lack. Their pot trial under field-like conditions used the Matador spinach variety at two salinity levels.
Leaf spraying raised selenium levels in the plants roughly tenfold without hurting yield, even at the higher salinity. Treated plants carried more phenols and antioxidants, tolerated salt better, and gained dry matter plus sulfur, zinc, and manganese. Selenium uptake tied closely to sulfur metabolism. Grochowska and co-authors see foliar feeding as a workable way to upgrade spinach grown on salty ground.
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| CREATOR | Ewelina Grochowska, Marcin Niemiec, Monika Komorowska, Monika Kula-Maximenko, Tan Suat Hian, Abzal Abdramanov, Anna Gorczyca |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39623 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |