Crithmum maritimum L. Biomass Production in Mediterranean Environment

Crithmum maritimum L., similarly to other halophytes, could be an essential plant in marginal areas of the Mediterranean basin; it can grow with low inputs and thus tackle environmental risks of soil erosion and biodiversity caused by climate change. The leaves can be used as food because of their g...

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Published in:Agronomy (Basel) 2022-04, Vol.12 (4), p.926
Main Authors: Zenobi, Stefano, Fiorentini, Marco, Ledda, Luigi, Deligios, Paola, Aquilanti, Lucia, Orsini, Roberto
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural production
Agriculture
Biodiversity
Biomass
Carbon sequestration
Chritmum maritimum L
Climate change
Crithmum maritimum
Cultural heritage
Environmental risk
Experimentation
Farms
Fermented food
Fertigation
Germplasm
halophyte
Halophytes
Irrigation
Irrigation water
Leaves
Liquid fertilizers
Mediterranean marginal areas
organic cropping systems
Organic farming
Organic fertilizers
Organic liquids
Soil erosion
Transplantation
valorization of local germplasm
Water shortages
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Summary:Crithmum maritimum L., similarly to other halophytes, could be an essential plant in marginal areas of the Mediterranean basin; it can grow with low inputs and thus tackle environmental risks of soil erosion and biodiversity caused by climate change. The leaves can be used as food because of their good chemical and nutritional parameters, as a cosmetic product and in medicine. The three treatments studied in the context of organic farming (control without input, irrigated with irrigation water only and fertigated with organic liquid fertilizer diluted in irrigation water) have provided encouraging results; in fact, regardless of the meteorological trend of the two years of experimentation, the production of aerial biomass remained at satisfactory levels and in particular, in the year following the transplantation, the production saw a significant increase in the treatments tested with low inputs (irrigated and fertigated). So, in the second year of production, a low nitrogen input with fertigation induced the plants to produce significantly more leaf biomass than the irrigated treatment, which in turn was significantly superior to the control. The production results for dry biomass are encouraging and may promote the spread of the local germplasm of this species around the Conero Park, where it is being studied to produce fermented vegetable conserves.
ISSN:2073-4395
2073-4395
DOI:10.3390/agronomy12040926