Selen w perspektywie fortyfikacji roślin o znaczeniu gospodarczym dla Polski

Selenium is an essential element for animals and human. Thus, its growing deficiency, observed since many years in many European countries leads to consider available strategies of rising selenium level in diet of local inhabitant and farm animals that may ensure safety and commonness of such solution. Agronomic fortification, as one of the way, has been successfully proven in other countries with similar problem like Finland, United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand. While most of the food and feed consumed in Poland came from internal market, the implementation of this strategy in Poland may have beneficial effects on health of farm animals and local inhabitants. The most suitable plants for agronomic biofortification with selenium in Poland are crops, especially cereals and selected members of mustard plants. They have a great share in agriculture land in this country and what results from their metabolism, can assure biologically active, i.e. desired by final consumers, selenium compounds. Based on the current knowledge and experiences in biofortification of crops with selenium, a novel technology that increase selenium content in edible parts of plants of interest should be developed and implemented in Poland.