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Development of sub-tropically adapted diverse provitamin-A rich maize inbreds through marker-assisted pedigree selection, their characterization and utilization in hybrid breeding.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2021
Duo Hriipulou, Hossain Firoz, Muthusamy Vignesh, Zunjare Rajkumar U, Goswami Rajat, Chand Gulab, Mishra Subhra J, Chhabra Rashmi, Gowda Munegowda M, Pal Saikat, Baveja Aanchal, Bhat Jayant S, Kamboj Mehar C, Kumar Bhupender, Amalraj John J, Khulbe Rajesh, Prakash Bhukya, Neeraja C N, Rakshit Sujay, Yadav Om P
Abstract excerpt
Malnutrition has emerged as one of the major health problems worldwide. Traditional yellow maize has low provitamin-A (proA) content and its genetic base in proA biofortification breeding program of subtropics is extremely narrow. To diversify the proA rich germplasm, 10 elite low proA inbreds were crossed with a proA rich donor (HP702-22) having mutant crtRB1 gene. The F2 populations derived from these crosses...
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