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Marker assisted selection of low phytic acid trait in maize (Zea mays L.).
Hereditas - 1 Feb 2014
Sureshkumar S, Tamilkumar P, Senthil N, Nagarajan P, Thangavelu A U, Raveendran M, Vellaikumar S, Ganesan K N, Balagopal R, Vijayalakshmi G, Shobana V
Abstract excerpt
Maize is the third important major food crop. Breeding for low phytate maize genotypes is an effective strategy for decreasing the content of kernel phytic acid (a chelator of cations such as Ca(2+) and Fe(3+) ) and thereby increasing the bioavailability of nutritive minerals in human diet and animal feed. Previous studies have established that a mutant plant with a lpa2-2 allele accumulates less phytic acid in...
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