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Publication of a research in a journal indexed within the Scopus and Clarivate Q2 database
2025-04-26
Instructor Dr. Haneen Shartouh Sharqi, a researcher at the Upper Euphrates Center for Sustainable Development Research at the University of Anbar (the first researcher), was able with a group of researchers to publish a research in a journal indexed within the Scopus and Clarivate Q2 containers in the well-known journal: (Pakistan Journal of Botany) with a research entitled:(COMPARING THE IMPACT OF DIFFERENT SOURCES AND LEVELS OF
MANUFACTURED AND COMMERCIAL ORGANIC FERTILIZERS ON THE QUALITATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF FENUGREEK (TRIGONELLA FOENUM-GRAECUM L.) SEEDS
Researchers involved in writing the research from the following parties:
1- Upper Euphrates Center for Sustainable Development Research / University of Anbar. First Researcher
2- Department of Applied Chemistry, College of Applied Sciences / University of Fallujah.
3- Department of Soil Sciences and Water Resources / College of Agriculture / University of Anbar.
4- Nutrition Research Institute / Director of the Nutrition Laboratory / Iraqi Ministry of Health.
5- Department of Food Science / College of Agriculture / University of Anbar.
The content of the study refers to the amount of food consumed increased with the increase in the population worldwide, which led to an increase in the amount of food waste. Therefore, it is safe to benefit from this waste by recycling it and using it as fertilizer, which improves the growth and productivity of plants and eliminates their harmful effects on the environment, Attention has turned towards adding organic fertilizers to reduce pollution and environmental damage caused by chemical fertilizers, as the excessive use of inorganic fertilizers leads to the deterioration of the soil and ecosystem, making it an unsuitable environment for agriculture, chemical fertilizers are harmful directly or indirectly, because they contain heavy metals (arsenic and cadmium) that accumulate in plants, which harms human health, as recycled fertilizers are environmentally friendly and rich in nutrients, making them ideal for improving plant growth, as they focus Recent agricultural trends to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers, and the trend towards the use of organic and biological fertilizers, that the waste of organic farms improves the physical properties of the soil, and increases the availability of nutrients in it. They also increase protein content, which may be attributed to the availability of all the essential nutrients present in organic matter, and organic fertilizers are rich in nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and micronutrients.
This study was conducted with the aim of finding local alternatives to commercial organic fertilizers by recycling household and city waste at the lowest cost and applying it to fenugreek plants to increase their nutritional content. The results of this study indicated that the use of organic fertilizers and organic acids extracted from household and city waste recycled into fertilizers could be a good way to improve the nutritional content of fenugreek seeds.
Fenugreek is widely used as a spice, as it contains an abundance of various active medicinal substances, as scientific research has proven the many health benefits of fenugreek, including its beneficial effects in the fight against cancer, diabetes, antioxidant properties, antimicrobials, anti-inflammatories, antibacterial and antifungal, and the pharmacological and therapeutic effects of fenugreek are attributed to the diversity of its components, including steroids (diosgenin), alkaloids (trigonelline), flavonoids (luteolin), coumarins, and amino acids (hydroxyisoleucine), Gum (galactomannan), volatile ingredients, fixed oils, and other substances.
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