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Organic vegetable production attempts to pursue multiple goals concerning influence on environment, production resources, and human health. In areas with limited availability of animal manure, there is a need for considering various off-farm nutrient resources for such production. Different organic and waste-derived fertilizer materials were used for broccoli production at two latitudes (58° and 67°) in Norway during two years. The fertilizer materials were applied at two rates of total N (80 and 170 kg ha–1) and compared with mineral fertilizer (170 kg ha–1) and no fertilizer. Broccoli yield was strongly influenced by fertilizer materials (algae meal < unfertilized control < sheep manure < extruded shrimp shell < anaerobically digested food waste < mineral fertilizer). Yield, but not glucosinolate content, was linearly correlated with estimated potentially plant-available N. However, extruded shrimp shell and mineral NPK fertilizer gave higher glucosinolate contents than sheep manure and no fertilizer. Sensory attributes were less affected by fertilizer material and plant-available N.
Author(s): Øvsthus I, Breland TA, Hagen S, Brandt K, Wold A-B, Bengtsson GB, Seljåsen R
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Year: 2015
Volume: 63
Issue: 50
Pages: 10757–10767
Print publication date: 23/12/2015
Online publication date: 09/11/2015
Acceptance date: 09/11/2015
Date deposited: 11/01/2016
ISSN (print): 0021-8561
ISSN (electronic): 1520-5118
Publisher: American Chemical Society
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.5b04631
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.5b04631
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