Comparison of Plant Morphology, Yield and Nutritional Quality of Fagopyrum esculentum and Fagopyrum tataricum Grown under Field Conditions in Belgium

Aubert, Lauranne; Decamps, Christian; Jacquemin, Guillaume; Quinet, Muriel

doi:10.3390/plants10020258

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Comparison of Plant Morphology, Yield and Nutritional Quality of Fagopyrum esculentum and Fagopyrum tataricum Grown under Field Conditions in Belgium

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Earth and Life Institute-Agronomy, Université Catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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Unité Productions Végétales, Département Productions Agricoles, Centre Wallon de Recherches Agronomiques, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium

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Plants 2021, 10(2), 258; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10020258

Submission received: 24 December 2020 / Revised: 18 January 2021 / Accepted: 23 January 2021 / Published: 28 January 2021

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Breeding Buckwheat for Nutritional Quality)

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Buckwheat is a pseudocereal with high nutritional and nutraceutical properties. Although common buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) is the main cultivated species, Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) is gaining interest. In this paper, we compared plant growth, yield-related parameters and seed nutritional qualities of two varieties of F. esculentum and F. tataricum under field conditions in Belgium. Fagopyrum esculentum flowered earlier, produced less nodes, less branches, less inflorescences, but more flowers per inflorescence than F. tataricum. The yield was higher in F. tataricum, while the thousand-grain weight was higher in F. esculentum. Yield ranged between 2037 kg/ha and 3667 kg/ha depending on the species and year. Regarding nutritional qualities, seeds of F. esculentum contained more proteins (15.4% vs. 12.8%) than seeds of F. tataricum although their amino acid profile was similar. Seeds of F. esculentum contained also more Mg (1.36 vs. 1.15 mg/g dry weight (DW)) and less Fe (22.9 vs. 32.6 µg/g DW) and Zn (19.6 vs. 24.5 µg/g DW) than F. tataricum. The main difference between seed nutritional quality was the concentration of flavonoids that was 60 times higher in F. tataricum than in F. esculentum. Both species grow well under Belgian conditions and showed good seed quality.

Keywords: common buckweat; Tartary buckweat; proteins; amino acids; minerals; yield; seed

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Aubert, L.; Decamps, C.; Jacquemin, G.; Quinet, M. Comparison of Plant Morphology, Yield and Nutritional Quality of Fagopyrum esculentum and Fagopyrum tataricum Grown under Field Conditions in Belgium. Plants 2021, 10, 258. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10020258

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Aubert L, Decamps C, Jacquemin G, Quinet M. Comparison of Plant Morphology, Yield and Nutritional Quality of Fagopyrum esculentum and Fagopyrum tataricum Grown under Field Conditions in Belgium. Plants. 2021; 10(2):258. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10020258

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Aubert, Lauranne, Christian Decamps, Guillaume Jacquemin, and Muriel Quinet. 2021. "Comparison of Plant Morphology, Yield and Nutritional Quality of Fagopyrum esculentum and Fagopyrum tataricum Grown under Field Conditions in Belgium" Plants 10, no. 2: 258. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10020258

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Aubert, L., Decamps, C., Jacquemin, G., & Quinet, M. (2021). Comparison of Plant Morphology, Yield and Nutritional Quality of Fagopyrum esculentum and Fagopyrum tataricum Grown under Field Conditions in Belgium. Plants, 10(2), 258. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10020258

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