Abstract
Increased demand for quinoa as a functional food has resulted in more quinoa-growing areas and initiatives to increase grain production, particularly in organic agriculture. Quinoa seeds are a superfood with incredible nutritional benefits. They are abundant in secondary metabolites with significant medicinal activity. This report was consequently performed to investigate whether Azolla fliculoides (AE) or moringa leaf extract (MLE) foliar spray can be supplemented as organic extracts to enhance quinoa growth and productivity under organic farming. Three quinoa cultivars, KVL–SRA2 (C1), Chipaya (C2), and Q–37 (C3), were grown organically and subjected to foliar spraying with AE or MLE at a 20% ratio, as well as their combination (AE+MLE). Plant performance of the three cultivars was significantly enhanced by MLE or AE applications as compared with control plants. The highest outputs were obtained by AE+MLE treatment, which significantly increased the seed yield by about 29% as compared with untreated plants. Seed quality exhibited a marked increase in response to AE+MLE that was superior in this regard as it showed higher protein, carbohydrates, saponine, tannins, phenolics, and flavonoids content. The C3-cultivar demonstrated the highest productivity, saponine, and flavonoids levels as compared to the other cultivars. Overall, the current study indicated that foliar spray with AE+MLE could enhance growth and productivity as well as quality and pharmaceutical active ingredients of quinoa cultivars grown under farming conditions.
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Claims 7
Claim · model-written summary
Moringa leaf extract enhanced quinoa plant performance relative to controls.
- Taxon
- Quinoa
Chenopodium quinoat0 - Treatment
- MLEe1
- Outcome
- Plant performancee0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Comparator
- control plantse0
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Verbatim
e0“Plant performance of the three cultivars was significantly enhanced by MLE or AE applications as compared with control plants.”
e1“moringa leaf extract (MLE) foliar spray”
t0“Quinoa”
Claim · model-written summary
Azolla extract enhanced quinoa plant performance relative to controls.
- Taxon
- QuinoaChenopodium quinoat0
- Treatment
- AEe1
- Outcome
- Plant performancee0
- Direction
- enhancede0
- Comparator
- control plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Plant performance of the three cultivars was significantly enhanced by MLE or AE applications as compared with control plants.”
e1“Azolla fliculoides (AE)”
t0“Quinoa”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined Azolla and moringa extracts raised quinoa seed yield by about 29% over untreated plants.
- Taxon
- QuinoaChenopodium quinoat0
- Treatment
- AE+MLE treatmente0
- Outcome
- seed yielde0
- Direction
- increasede0
- Value
- about 29%e0
- Comparator
- untreated plantse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“AE+MLE treatment, which significantly increased the seed yield by about 29% as compared with untreated plants”
t0“Quinoa”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined extracts increased quinoa seed protein, carbohydrates and saponine.
- Taxon
- QuinoaChenopodium quinoat0
- Treatment
- AE+MLEe0
- Outcome
- protein, carbohydrates, saponinee0
- Direction
- highere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Seed quality exhibited a marked increase in response to AE+MLE that was superior in this regard as it showed higher protein, carbohydrates, saponine, tannins, phenolics, and flavonoids content.”
t0“Quinoa”
Claim · model-written summary
Combined extracts increased quinoa seed tannins, phenolics and flavonoids.
- Taxon
- QuinoaChenopodium quinoat0
- Treatment
- AE+MLEe0
- Outcome
- tannins, phenolics, and flavonoids contente0
- Direction
- highere0
Not reportedComparator
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Seed quality exhibited a marked increase in response to AE+MLE that was superior in this regard as it showed higher protein, carbohydrates, saponine, tannins, phenolics, and flavonoids content.”
t0“Quinoa”
Claim · model-written summary
Q–37 had the highest productivity among the three cultivars.
- Taxon
- QuinoaChenopodium quinoat0
- Material
- Q–37e1
- Outcome
- productivitye0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Comparator
- the other cultivarse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The C3-cultivar demonstrated the highest productivity, saponine, and flavonoids levels as compared to the other cultivars.”
e1“Q–37 (C3)”
t0“Quinoa”
Claim · model-written summary
Q–37 had the highest saponine and flavonoid levels among the cultivars.
- Taxon
- QuinoaChenopodium quinoat0
- Material
- Q–37e1
- Outcome
- saponine, and flavonoids levelse0
- Direction
- higheste0
- Comparator
- the other cultivarse0
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“The C3-cultivar demonstrated the highest productivity, saponine, and flavonoids levels as compared to the other cultivars.”
e1“Q–37 (C3)”
t0“Quinoa”
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