Sprouts and microgreens have attracted tremendous interest across multiple disciplines in recent years. Here, we critically review the most advances to underscore research prospects niches, related challenges, not yet addressed or fully pursued. In particular, report a number of themes that merit special attention as result their relevance plant science, nutrition, health, zootechnics: (1) species inadequately investigated, such wild plants, fruit tree strains; (2) abiotic biotic factors,...

The contents of total Se and inorganic organic species, as well the proteins, chlorophylls, carotenoids, phenolic acids, were measured in 10-day old sprouts rice ( Oryza sativa L.) obtained with increasing levels (15, 45, 135, 405 mg L-1) sodium selenite selenate distilled water control. Increasing increased sprouts, content especially their soluble conjugated forms. Moderate (i.e., not higher that 45 appeared best compromise to obtain high acid yields together proportion while limiting...

The use of sprouts in the human diet is becoming more and widespread because they are tasty high bioactive compounds antioxidants, with related health benefits. In this work, we sprouted rapeseed under increasing salinity to investigate effect on free bound total phenolics (TP), non-flavonoids (NF), tannins (TAN), phenolic acids (PAs), antioxidant activity. Seeds were incubated at 0, 25, 50, 100, 200 mM NaCl until early or late sprout stage, i.e., before after cotyledon expansion,...

The effect of dietary supplementation with flax and alfalfa sprouts (40 g/d) on bioactive compounds cholesterol contents hen's egg was examined. Thirty White Leghorn hens, 26 weeks age, were fed, for 66 days, three diets that included control (standard diet – C), standard + (A), (F). Productive performance hens recorded daily. content plasma yolk, the presence in egg, also analysed. Supplementation reduced probably due to synergy between different (polyunsaturated fatty acids - PUFAs,...

Total phenolic content (TPC), reducing power (RP), superoxide radical scavenging (RS), and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) production inhibition were measured in raw denatured aqueous extracts from sprouts wheatgrass of einkorn emmer obtained at increasing salinity. Grains incubated kept 0, 25, 50, 100 mM NaCl until either sprout or stage. Additionally, a recovery treatment was included, which then transferred 0 All parameters (TPC, RP, RS, TBARS inhibition) increased with...

This work aimed to study the effect of some light spectra on growth, oxidative state, and stress einkorn wheatgrass (Triticum monococcum L. ssp. monococcum). To this end, six treatments, having same total incident photon flux density (PFD) 200 μmol m–2 s–1, were applied compared: only blue light; red; three blue:red combinations, at different proportions PFD (75:25%, 50:50%, 25:75%, respectively); a wide spectrum, taken as control treatment, composed (18% PFD), red (18%), intermediate...

The evaluation of potential biostimulants to be used in sustainable horticulture production is a crucial goal research. Most research has focused on the effects plant growth, and less seed germination seedling growth. This study evaluated biostimulatory mugwort extract growth several vegetable crops (onion, carrot, tomato, rapeseed, cauliflower lettuce), order test its application as biostimulant. phenolic acid composition acids’ rankings were: homovanillic > gentisic gallic caffeic =...

Germination is related with improvements of nutritional value seeds, since it promotes accumulation health-promoting phytochemicals. However, only few studies have investigated on phytochemicals during sprouting under sub-optimal conditions. Thus, we the effect salinity germination an einkorn (TMoM), emmer (TDiZ) and a durum wheat (TDuC) genotype total polyphenols (TPC), free- bound-phenolic acids [PAs; i.e. caffeic acid, syringic Pcoumaric trans-ferulic salicylic acid] contents antiradical...

Seeds from Citrus species represent a relevant by-product of the juice industry and potential source bioactive compounds such as phenols other antioxidants. Sprouting could be an intriguing idea to enhance content these compounds, explored for fruittree species. In this experiment, sprouting performance, concentration total phenolic acids, antioxidant activity seeds sprouts were evaluated bitter orange (Citrus aurantium L. seedlings), blonde sinensis (L.) Osbeck cv.Biondocomune), sweet lemon...

Sprouted seeds represent intriguing ready-to-eat micro-scale vegetables for the healthy food market, since they are tasty and rich in bioactive compounds. However, sprouts have been recently proposed as a source extraction purification of several phytochemicals to be used supplementation or pharmaceutics. Recently, there has an industrialization sprout production, carried out indoor, often with use artificial light, which implications on biomass yield composition, energetic economic costs....

Abstract BACKGROUND Fresh sprouts are healthy foods, low in fats and high phytochemicals, but have a short shelf‐life, hence the need for processing methods that preserve their nutritional value. This work was aimed at evaluating effect of heat‐drying (HD) freeze‐drying (FD) on phytochemical fatty acid profiles alfalfa flax sprouts, as compared to fresh material. RESULTS Both FD HD reduced contents sprouts. better preserved phytoestrogens, phytosterols total tocols HD. However, phytoestrogen...

Salt stress and selenium are known to elicitate the production of plant secondary metabolites with antioxidant properties. On this basis, maize grains obtained from mother plants fertilized or not were sprouted at different levels salinity (0, 25, 50 mM NaCl) evaluate effects on sprout yield, inorganic organic Se species, minerals, metabolites, as revealed by a metabolomics analysis. Grain endogenous (135 mg kg−1 vs. 0.19 non-enriched grain) affected yield composition, having greatest effect...

Abstract Introducing grain legumes into cereal‐based cropping systems can enhance crop diversification and related factors (e.g., farm N‐self‐sufficiency). Lentil ( Lens culinaris Medik.) is a minor legume species that offers nutritional other benefits when incorporated diets. However, lentil production often characterized by low unstable yields due to drought, pests, high yield losses during mechanical harvest. Intercropping promising agroecological‐based strategy may overcome these...

Sprouts are increasingly present in the human diet, being tasty and healthy foods high antioxidant compounds. Although there is a body of literature on sprouting many plant species, Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz has not yet been studied for this purpose. This study aimed to characterize main bioactive compounds potential seeds sprouts five different cultivars (ALBA, CO46, CCE43, JOELLE, VERA). In particular, contents phenolic (PCs), acids (PAs), glucosinolates (GLSs) were investigated. PCs,...

In this study, we compared nutritional characteristics of breads from wholegrain flours three modern cultivars, four old cultivars and one landrace population common wheat (Triticum aestivum), Khorasan turgidum var turanicum) accession einkorn monococcum) cultivar. One bread refined flour was also included. All were enriched or not with 5% (w:w) sprout powder (WSP) to obtain (EB) control (CB), respectively. Total phenolics flavonoids, reducing power, radical scavenging thiobarbituric acid...

Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs) technology offers vast possibilities in plant lighting due to its ability mix different light frequencies, high energy use efficiency and low heat production combined long lifespan. In particular, the effect of Blue:Red (B:R) ratio other frequencies central part PAR spectrum (CGA, <em>i.e.</em> cyan, green amber) may be very important, though literature information is scarce. this paper, effects six spectra from LED were tested,...

Wheat sprouts and wheatgrass represent a sort of fresh vegetable for the ready-to-eat market are acknowledged their bioactive compounds content. Besides nutritional properties, sensory quality is crucial issue consumers' satisfaction. This work reports several traits from five genotypes Triticum species. Sprouts showed higher soluble solids content (SSC) SSC/TA (titratable acidity) ratio than wheatgrass. The prevalent volatile both were 1-penten-3-ol, 1-penten-3-one, E-2-hexenal,...