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- Title
Innovative Tools for Nitrogen Fertilization Traceability in Organic Farming Products: A Cauliflower Case Study.
- Authors
Campanelli, Gabriele; Amenta, Margherita; Bontempo, Luana; Leteo, Fabrizio; Montemurro, Francesco; Platani, Cristiano; Timpanaro, Nicolina; Torrisi, Biagio; Fabroni, Simona
- Abstract
Different research works have been carried out over the years to investigate new and reliable systems to test the authenticity of products obtained using organic cultivation methods. Based on a previously proposed integrated approach for discriminating organic from conventional products through the acquisition of isotopic data and other chemical and biochemical parameters, we herein report the results of an open-field cultivation case study for cauliflower crop. Experiments were carried out on soil, leaves, and corymb samples of cauliflowers grown using six different nitrogen fertilization treatments (organic, conventional, and mixed at different % of mineral fertilizers). The results of this study have shown that a multivariate analysis of isotopic data (13C/12C; 15N/14N, 34S/32S, 2H/1H, and 18O/16O isotopic ratios) combined with other parameters (fresh weight, total soluble solids, total acidity, cut resistance, CIE L*, a*, b* color indices, head height, head diameter, ascorbic acid content, total polyphenols, and ORAC units) performed using the linear discriminant analysis method gives researchers the possibility to discriminate organic products from conventional ones. Our study highlighted that the different isotopic signatures impressed on the cauliflowers by the different nitrogenous sources combined with the qualitative pattern of the crop, significantly affected by the different treatments, could effectively be jointly used to trace the organic origin of the crop.
- Subjects
ORGANIC products; CAULIFLOWER; FISHER discriminant analysis; ISOTOPIC signatures; ORGANIC farming; ISOTOPIC analysis
- Publication
Horticulturae, 2024, Vol 10, Issue 1, p94
- ISSN
2311-7524
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/horticulturae10010094