Cultivo hidropônico de alface e rúcula com diferentes concentrações de ferro visando a biofortificação

• Autor(a) principal: Laurett, Luciene
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (riUfes)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufes.br/handle/10/8245
• topic: Mineral nutrition; Iron deficiency anemia; Greenery; Nutrição mineral; Anemia ferropriva; Agronomia; Alface; Hortaliças; Fluorescência; Nutrientes; 63

Lettuce and arugula are commonly consumed in the form of salad, supplying the body with vitamins and minerals. Iron is one of these important minerals for human health and its deficiency causes anemia. Anemia due to iron deficiency is on a nutritional deficiency of great magnitude, considered a public health problem both in developing countries as in developed countries. The objective of the research was to determine biofortification with iron and the effect on the biometric and physiological characteristics of lettuce and arugula in hydroponic cultures. Two experiments, one for each culture were installed. The experimental design was a randomized block, with five treatments and six replications. The treatments consisted of increasing concentrations of Fe 45 (control), 90; 135; 180; 225 μmol.L-1 . At 27 and 30 days after transplanting to rocket and lettuce, respectively, the shoot fresh weight, number of leaves, leaf area, root fresh weight, root volume, shoot dry matter, root dry matter, nutrient concentration, chlorophyll content and fluorescence were evaluated. The production of the shoot fresh matter of lettuce and arugula decreased significantly with increasing iron concentration, decreases were observed in 97,63 and 68,18%, respectively. The Fe content in tissues was significant only for the arugula root system, but it was observed a greater increase of the iron concentration in the root system of both cultures compared to the shoot concentration. For the arugula root system was observed 68,22 times increase in Fe content compared to the shoot concentration. The lettuce chlorophyll a content was significant difference in the highest concentration of iron. The analysis of fluorescence of chlorophyll a held to 14 and 27 DAT in lettuce and arugula, respectively, showed no significant difference between treatments. The chlorophyll a index, chlorophyll b and total chlorophyll content in arugula, showed no significant difference. For lettuce production Vitoria de Santo Antao and Rococo arugula hydroponically recommends the use of the concentration of 45 μmol.L-1 of Fe.