Department of Agronomical Engineering, Technical University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain.
Department of Engineering, CIAIMBITAL Research Centre, University of Almería, Almería, Spain.
J Sci Food Agric. 2024 Jul;104(9):4950-4965. doi: 10.1002/jsfa.13309. Epub 2024 Jan 31.
Previous research has established that using high-quality planting material during the early phase of vegetable production significantly impacts success and efficiency, leading to improved crop performance, faster time to harvest and better profitability. In the present study, we conducted a global analysis of vegetable seedlings and transplants, providing a comprehensive overview of research trends in seedling and transplant production to enhance the nutritional quality of vegetables.
The analysis involved reviewing and quantitatively analysing 762 articles and 5248 keywords from the Scopus database from 1971 to 2022. We used statistical, mathematical and clustering tools to analyse bibliometrics and visualise the most relevant research topics. A visualisation map was generated to identify the evolution of keywords used in the articles, resulting in five clusters for further analysis. Our study highlights the importance of the size of seed trays for the type of crop, the mechanical seeder used and the greenhouse facilities to produce desirable transplants. We identified grafting and light-emitting diode (LED) lighting technology as rapidly expanding technologies in vegetable seedlings and transplant production used to promote plant qualitative profile.
There is a need for sustainable growing media to optimise resources and reduce input use. Thus, applying grafting, LED artificial lighting, biostimulants, biofortification and plant growth-promoting microorganisms in seedling production can enhance efficiency and promote sustainable vegetable nutritional quality by accumulating biocompounds. Further research is needed to explore the working mechanisms and devise novel strategies to enhance the product quality of vegetables, commencing from the early stages of food production. © 2024 The Authors. Journal of The Science of Food and Agriculture published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.
先前的研究已经表明，在蔬菜生产的早期阶段使用高质量的种植材料会显著影响生产的成功和效率，从而提高作物的性能，更快地收获并提高盈利能力。在本研究中，我们对蔬菜种苗和移植进行了全球分析，提供了种苗和移植生产研究趋势的综合概述，以提高蔬菜的营养品质。
该分析涉及审查和定量分析了 1971 年至 2022 年来自 Scopus 数据库的 762 篇文章和 5248 个关键词。我们使用统计、数学和聚类工具来分析文献计量学，并可视化最相关的研究主题。生成了一个可视化地图来识别文章中使用的关键词的演变，从而得出了五个进一步分析的聚类。我们的研究强调了种子盘的大小对作物类型、使用的机械播种机和温室设施的重要性，以生产出理想的移植苗。我们确定了嫁接和发光二极管（LED）照明技术是在蔬菜种苗和移植生产中迅速扩展的技术，用于促进植物的定性特征。
需要可持续的生长介质来优化资源和减少投入的使用。因此，在种苗生产中应用嫁接、LED 人工照明、生物刺激素、生物强化和植物生长促进微生物，可以通过积累生物化合物来提高效率并促进可持续的蔬菜营养品质。需要进一步研究来探索工作机制并设计新的策略，从食品生产的早期阶段开始提高蔬菜的产品质量。© 2024 作者。《食品科学杂志》由 John Wiley & Sons Ltd 代表化学工业协会出版。
