Impact of Conventional and Integrated Management Systems on the Water-Soluble Vitamin Content in Potatoes, Field Beans, and Cereals

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 p...

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Published in:	Journal of agricultural and food chemistry Vol. 66; no. 4; pp. 831 - 841
Main Authors:	Freitag, Sabine, Verrall, Susan R, Pont, Simon D.A, McRae, Diane, Sungurtas, Julia A, Palau, Raphaëlle, Hawes, Cathy, Alexander, Colin J, Allwood, J. William, Foito, Alexandre, Stewart, Derek, Shepherd, Louise V.T
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States American Chemical Society 31-01-2018
Subjects:	Agriculture - methods Ascorbic Acid - analysis Crops, Agricultural - chemistry Edible Grain - chemistry Hordeum - chemistry Niacin - analysis Nutritive Value Seasons Solanum tuberosum - chemistry Thiamine - analysis Triticum - chemistry United Kingdom Vicia faba - chemistry Vitamin B Complex - analysis Vitamins - analysis wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) field beans (Vicia faba L.) water-soluble vitamins (WSVs) potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) integrated management liquid chromatography−triple quadrupole mass spectrometry
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Summary:	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.
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ISSN:	0021-8561 1520-5118
DOI:	10.1021/acs.jafc.7b03509