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Application of beet sugar byproducts improves sugar beet biofortification in saline soils and reduces sugar losses in beet sugar processing

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Improving the chemical and physical properties of saline soils is crucial for the sustainable production of sugar beet and efficient processing of beet sugar. Here, the impacts of the application of treated filter cake on sugar beet biofortification under saline soil and sugar losses into molasses during beet sugar processing were evaluated for the first time. The application of treated filter cake significantly reduced K%, Na%, and α-amino-N while enhanced sucrose content and quality index of beet root juice. Consequently, sugar loss percentage, sugar loss yield, and relative sugar loss yield were reduced, whereas recoverable sugar yield was enhanced. Linear regression analysis revealed that quality index and sugar loss yield were increased, whereas sugar loss percentage and relative sugar loss yield were reduced in response to the reduction of soil Na+ content accompanied with increasing Ca2+ content in the soil increased. The results provide treated filter cake as a promising amendment for saline soil remediation for improving biofortification of sugar beet and reducing sugar losses during beet sugar processing.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the staff of the Delta Sugar Company Research Farm, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt, for excellent technical assistance.

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  1. King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, National Center for Agricultural Technology, Riyadh, 6086, Saudi Arabia

    Fahad Alotaibi

  2. Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

    Atif A. Bamagoos

  3. Delta Sugar Company, El-Hamool, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt

    Fekry M. Ismaeil

  4. Engineering Research Centre of Ecology and Agricultural Use of Wetland, Ministry of Education/Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Grain Industry, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, 434025, China

    Wenying Zhang

  5. Agronomy Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, 75526, Egypt

    Salah Fatouh Abou-Elwafa

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SFA conceived the study, analyzed the data, and wrote the manuscript. FMI performed the experiment and collected the data. FA, AAB, and WZ helped in data analysis and presentation. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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Alotaibi, F., Bamagoos, A.A., Ismaeil, F.M. et al. Application of beet sugar byproducts improves sugar beet biofortification in saline soils and reduces sugar losses in beet sugar processing. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 30303–30311 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-12935-5

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