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© 2006 American Society for Nutrition J. Nutr. 136:870S-872S, March 2006

Supplement: Significance of Garlic and Its Constituents in Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease

Hydroponic Cultivation Offers A Practical Means of Producing Selenium-Enriched Garlic1–3,

Tadamitsu Tsuneyoshi4, Jiro Yoshida and Takashi Sasaoka

Healthcare Research Institute, Wakunaga Pharmaceutical Company, Akitakata, Hiroshima 739-1195, Japan

4 To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: tsuneyoshi_td{at}wakunaga.co.jp.

Garlic enriched by selenium (Se) could be an excellent source of dietary Se for cancer chemoprevention. The production of high-Se garlic requires Se-fertilized soil, but such soil may pollute the environment. Hydroponics is a closed system that allows good control over Se fertilization without environmental consequences. We examined the effect of hydroponic cultivation on Se uptake and assimilation in garlic seedlings. Garlic bulbs were grown in the nutrient solution without Se for first 2 wk, and with potassium selenate for an additional week. Sulfate in an ordinary hydroponic solution inhibited the absorption and assimilation of selenate, but when a sulfate-free nutrient was used for Se addition, the garlic seedlings accumulated >1 mg Se, dry weight. Through HPLC inductively coupled plasma MS (HPLC-ICP-MS) analysis, Se-methlyselenocysteine (MeSeCys), {gamma}-glutamyl-Se-methlyselenocysteine ({gamma}-GluMeSeCys), selenomethionine, and nonmetabolized selenate were identified in water extracts of the garlic seedlings. The results demonstrate that hydroponic enrichment of Se in garlic seedlings could be a practical means of producing organic Se compounds for nutritional supplements.

KEY WORDS: • garlic • selenium enrichment • chemoprevention • hydroponics






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