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Designing and using vegetable nitrogen metabolism modulators for reducing the nitrate content of vegetables
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Designing and using vegetable nitrogen metabolism modulators for reducing the nitrate content of vegetables
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Both universities in Navarre and ADItech (SINAI Navarre R&D+i system coordinator) participated in the “Design and Handling of Nitrogenated Plant Metabolism Modulators for Reducing the Nitrate content in Vegetables” project (PC106-107). In the consortium of the three entities, the Universidad Pública de Navarra was the leader, with Idoia Ariz as IP, and the Universidad de Navarra was a member, with researcher Maria Movila as Co-IP.
In HORTA0,0, the role of the essential functions of nitrate in the phenomena of its accumulation in leafy vegetable species was researched. Likewise, some metabolic target points related with those functions have been identified on ones that act with metabolic modulators to handle responses from vegetable crops and provide end products that are healthy for consumers. Those modulating products will make it possible for the crop to regulate its own metabolism and achieve reduced nitrate content in its edible tissue (less than 50% of the maximum content allowed currently by the EU), and other anti-nutrients (e.g. oxalic acid salts). In addition, the composition of bioactive compounds in vegetables produced with those modulators was evaluated..