Trainer

Trainer treated Perennial wall rocket, cv. Nature, grown in an unheated greenhouse during autumn-spring, winter and winter-spring had on average a 4.1 % shorter crop cycle (ns), a 12.4 % higher leaf area index, 19.6 % more plant dry matter, a 13.2 % higher yield, a 3.2 % higher mean weight (ns), leafs contained 9.8 % more chlorophyll, 8.1 % more dry matter, 3.1 % more malic acid (ns), 11.5 % more oxalic acid, 12.2 % more citric acid, 1.7 % more isocitric acid (ns), 16.4 % more NO3 (ns), 11.9 % more P,  2.1 % more K (ns), 3.5 % less S (ns), 9.5 % more Ca, 3.8 % less Mg (ns), 10.8 % more polyphenols, 83.6 % more ascorbic acid and had a 26.2 % higher anti-oxidant activity compared to the untreated control plants. There wasn't an effect of growing cycle on the measured parameters.