Biofortify Your Greens: Iodine, Selenium & Hydroponic Nutrition

Host Dr. Russell Sharp of Hydroponics Daily explains how hydroponic fertigation and his product Gold Leaf (Liquid Gold in the UK) can be used to biofortify edible crops with nutrients like iodine, selenium, iron, zinc and silicon.

The episode covers practical benefits, higher micronutrient content, potential shelf-life and quality improvements, and serious cautions, especially selenium toxicity, stressing professional handling and precise dosing.

Listeners learn why hydroponics makes targeted nutrient enrichment easier than soil, which crops have been shown to respond (lettuce, basil), and how biofortification might impact human nutrition and future dietary needs.

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Howarth E. Bouis — International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) / HarvestPlus

Amy Saltzman — HarvestPlus

Wolfgang H. Pfeiffer — HarvestPlus / CGIAR

J.V. Meenakshi — IFPRI

Ekin Birol — IFPRI / HarvestPlus

Edward A. Boy — HarvestPlus

Dean A. Boy — HarvestPlus

Daniel Asare-Marfo — IFPRI / HarvestPlus

Erick Boy — HarvestPlus

Jan W. Low — International Potato Center (CIP)

Robert O.M. Mwanga — International Potato Center (CIP)

Maria I. Andrade — International Potato Center (CIP)

Hugo Campos — International Potato Center (CIP)

Graham Thiele — International Potato Center (CIP)

Marcin G. Wirth — ETH Zürich

Ines Slamet-Loedin — International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

B.P. Mallikarjuna Swamy — International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)

Rainer Schulin — ETH Zürich

Roslyn B. Gleadow — Monash University

Christine H. Foyer — University of Birmingham

Ismail Cakmak — Sabanci University

Güzel Velu — CIMMYT

Iván Ortiz-Monasterio — CIMMYT

R.P. (Ravi) Singh — CIMMYT

Velu Govindan — CIMMYT

Yuri (Y.) Hao — CIMMYT

Manish Roorkiwal — ICRISAT

Rajeev K. Varshney — CSIRO / formerly ICRISAT

Hari D. Upadhyaya — ICRISAT

Rajeev Gupta — CSIRO

Michael J. Welch — Cornell University

Ross M. Welch — Cornell University

Robin D. Graham — University of Adelaide

Richard D. Thompson — ETH Zürich

Philip J. White — The James Hutton Institute

Martin R. Broadley — University of Nottingham

Steven P. McGrath — Rothamsted Research

Andy R. Smith — University of Cambridge

Cathie Martin — John Innes Centre

Lionel J. Dupont — INRAE

Victor Raboy — USDA-ARS

Paul M. Hasegawa — Purdue University

Jian-Kang Zhu — Purdue University

David E. Salt — University of Nottingham

Nicolaus von Wirén — Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK)

Ute Krämer — Ruhr University Bochum

Hakan Wallin — Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

M.S. (Mike) Griffiths — University of York

Elad Tako — Cornell University

Julia F. Kotzé — University of Pretoria

Richard P. Glahn — USDA-ARS

Raymond P. Glahn — USDA-ARS

James P. Li — University of Minnesota

Tom L. Sleper — University of Missouri

Dean DellaPenna — Michigan State University

Robert A. McClung — Carnegie Mellon University

Peter Beyer — University of Freiburg

Ingo Potrykus — ETH Zürich

Paola Carillo — University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”

Roberto Papa — Marche Polytechnic University

Cristóbal Uauy — John Innes Centre

Nigel G. Halford — Rothamsted Research

Peter R. Shewry — Rothamsted Research

Alison J. Smith — University of Cambridge

Catherine J. Dixon — University of Leeds

Darren J. Plett — CSIRO Agriculture and Food

Mark Tester — University of Adelaide

Jana K. Scharfenberg — University of Hohenheim

Ivan Baxter — Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

Brian Larkins — University of Arizona

Torbert Rocheford — Purdue University

Regina A. Feil — University of Bonn

Karl-Josef Dietz — Bielefeld University

Hans-Peter Braun — Leibniz University Hannover

Elizabeth A. Ainsworth — USDA-ARS / University of Illinois

Donald R. Ort — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Krishna K. Niyogi — University of California, Berkeley

Sabeeha S. Merchant — University of California, Berkeley

Joanna Barłóg — Poznań University of Life Sciences

Mariola K. Kozak — Warsaw University of Life Sciences

Ramesh V. Sunkar — Oklahoma State University

Amitava Roy — Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)

K.V. Prasad — Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR)

K.C. Bansal — National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI)

Usha Kiran — NABI

Ramesh Chand — Banaras Hindu University

A.K. Singh — Indian Institute of Rice Research (IIRR)

A. Raman — Punjab Agricultural University

B.S. Gill — Texas A&M University

Ravi Singh — CIMMYT

Mahmoud S. Hussein — University of Guelph

Youbin Zheng — University of Guelph

Rowan F. Sage — University of Toronto

Bernard R. Glick — University of Waterloo

Leon V. Kochian — Cornell University

Jason P. Wallace — University of Georgia

Maria C. Gelli — University of Florida

Adam J. Boggs — University of California, Davis

James V. Anderson — USDA-ARS

Bruce Bugbee — Utah State University