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Review
. 2021 Dec 14;10(12):2759.
doi: 10.3390/plants10122759.

Strategies of Elicitation to Enhance Bioactive Compound Content in Edible Plant Sprouts: A Bibliometric Study

María Trinidad Toro  1 , Jaime Ortiz  2 , José Becerra  3 , Nelson Zapata  1 , Paulo Fierro  1 , Marcelo Illanes  1 , María Dolores López  1
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Review

Strategies of Elicitation to Enhance Bioactive Compound Content in Edible Plant Sprouts: A Bibliometric Study

María Trinidad Toro et al. Plants (Basel). .

Abstract

Vegetable sprouts are a food source that presents high content of bioactive compounds which can also be enhanced through elicitation mechanisms. To better understand the scientific production and research trends on this topic, a bibliometric analysis by means of the Web of Science database was carried out. The results showed significant growth in research on the elicitation of edible plants sprouts. The three most productive journals were the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, followed by Food Chemistry and LWT-Food Science and Technology. The co-occurrence of keyword analysis of the different authors showed that the main research topics in this domain were 'germination', 'antioxidant activity', 'sprouts', 'glucosinolates' and 'phenolics'. The countries with the highest number of scientific publications were China, followed by India and USA. The productivity patterns of the authors conformed to Lotka's law. This study provides an overview of research on elicitation to enrich bioactive compounds in sprouts, and the need to review and update the trends on this subject.

Keywords: antioxidants; bibliometric analysis; elicitation; germinated; phytochemicals.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Figures

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Developmental differences between sprouts and microgreens.
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Number of the articles published on elicitation of sprouts in the WoS database between 1992 and 2020.
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Cumulative occurrences of journals overtime.
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Co-occurrence of author’s keyword manifested on clusters.
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Thematic evolution of the author’s keywords.
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Figure 6
Conceptual structure plot using Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA).
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Figure 7
Distribution of the number of publications from single and multiple countries (A). Frequency collaboration network between countries working with elicitation in plant sprouts (B) (the red links represent the collaborative associations between different countries. The blue color represents the number of publications. The darker the color, the greater the number of publications).
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Figure 8
Frequency of authors publishing a given number of articles. The blue area corresponds to the empirical or observed data and the dotted line represents modeled or theoretical relationship according to Lotka’s Law.
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Figure 9
Data collection flow diagram.
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