Abstract
The reduction of the environmental footprint of crop production without compromising crop yield and their nutritional value is a key goal for improving the sustainability of agriculture. In 2009, the Balruddery Farm Platform was established at The James Hutton Institute as a long-term experimental platform for cross-disciplinary research of crops using two agricultural ecosystems. Crops representative of UK agriculture were grown under conventional and integrated management systems and analyzed for their water-soluble vitamin content. Integrated management, when compared with the conventional system, had only minor effects on water-soluble vitamin content, where significantly higher differences were seen for the conventional management practice on the levels of thiamine in field beans (p < 0.01), Spring barley (p < 0.05), and Winter wheat (p < 0.05), and for nicotinic acid in Spring barley (p < 0.05). However, for all crops, variety and year differences were of greater importance. These results indicate that the integrated management system described in this study does not significantly affect the water-soluble vitamin content of the crops analyzed here.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 831-841 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry |
Volume | 66 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 19 Dec 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 31 Jan 2018 |
Keywords
- barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)
- field beans (Vicia faba L.)
- integrated management
- liquid chromatography-triple quadrupole mass spectrometry
- potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)
- water-soluble vitamins (WSVs)
- wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Chemistry
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences