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Assessment of fertility dynamics and nutritional quality of potato tubers in a compost-amended mars regolith simulant

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Caporale, Antonio Giandonato, Paradiso, Roberta, Palladino, Mario, Arouna, Nafiou, Izzo, Luana, Ritieni, Alberto, De Pascale, Stefania, Adamo, Paola·2024·Plants
DOI 10.3390/plants13050747PMC PMC10933922
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Mars exploration will foresee the design of bioregenerative life support systems (BLSSs), in which the use/recycle of in situ resources might allow the production of food crops. However, cultivation on the poorly-fertile Mars regolith will be very challenging. To pursue this goal, we grew potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) plants on the MMS-1 Mojave Mars regolith simulant, pure (R100) and mixed with green compost at 30% (R70C30), in a pot in a cold glasshouse with fertigation. For comparison purposes, we also grew plants on a fluvial sand, pure (S100) and amended with 30% of compost (S70C30), a volcanic soil (VS) and a red soil (RS). We studied the fertility dynamics in the substrates over time and the tuber nutritional quality. We investigated nutrient bioavailability and fertility indicators in the substrates and the quality of potato tubers. Plants completed the life cycle on R100 and produced scarce but nutritious tubers, despite many critical simulant properties. The compost supply enhanced the MMS-1 chemical/physical fertility and determined a higher tuber yield of better nutritional quality. This study demonstrated that a compost-amended Mars simulant could be a proper substrate to produce food crops in BLSSs, enabling it to provide similar ecosystem services of the studied terrestrial soils.

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  • Organic amendment of regolith simulants improved physicochemical and hydraulic features and slightly reduced alkaline pH, allowing thriving plant growth of crops.

    “however, the organic amendment improved physicochemical and hydraulic features and slightly reduced the alkaline pH, allowing a thriving plant growth of these crops.”

    From Fava bean plant performance and fertility dynamics in Mars regolith simulant-based substrates for space farming (2025) · cites this paper as Caporale et al., 2024

  • Easily bioavailable nutrient fractions generally declined across all substrates, whereas potentially bioavailable fractions increased.

    “By analysing the dynamics of nutrient bioavailability over time (by comparing the bioavailable fractions assessed after fava bean cultivation and those after the previous experiment with potato, published in Caporale et al., 2024), we observed that the easily bioavailable nutrient fractions generally declined across all substrates, whereas the potentially bioavailable fractions increased.”

    From Fava bean plant performance and fertility dynamics in Mars regolith simulant-based substrates for space farming (2025) · cites this paper as Caporale et al., 2024

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Caporale, A. G., Paradiso, R., Palladino, M., Arouna, N., Izzo, L., Ritieni, A., De Pascale, S., & Adamo, P.
Affiliations
  • University of Naples Federico II (IT)
  • Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Piazza Carlo di Borbone 1, 80055 Portici, Italy
Corresponding author
Paradiso, Roberta
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Venue
Plants
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2024-03-06
Volume
13
Issue
5
Pages
747
ISSN
2223-7747 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.3390/plants13050747
PMC
PMC10933922
OpenAlex
W4392563607
Cited by
7
References
6
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2
FWCI
1.55
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journal article
Language
en
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  • Plants (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Italian Space Agency (ASI) (CUP F74I16000000005)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Plant Growth and Agriculture Techniques
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Growth and nutrition in plants
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Agricultural Science and Fertilization
Keywords
potato, compost application, bioregenerative life support, in-situ resource utilization, tuber nutritional quality, soil fertility dynamics, nutrient bioavailability

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