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Improvement of 6-gingerol production in ginger rhizomes (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) plants by mutation breeding using gamma irradiation.
Applied radiation and isotopes : including data, instrumentation and methods for use in agriculture, industry and medicine - 1 Aug 2020
Magdy Asmaa M, Fahmy Eman M, Al-Ansary Abd El-Rahman M F, Awad Gamal
Abstract excerpt
Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) is a valuable culinary and medicinal plant. The compound 6-gingerol is the main gingerol in ginger rhizomes and it possesses interesting pharmacological and physiological properties. Mutation breeding involved using low doses of gamma radiation (5-30 Gy) to increase the genetic variability in ginger rhizomes (M1 generation). Ginger plants selected from the next generation (M2)...
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