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Provitamin A, lysine and tryptophan enrichment in shrunken2-based sweet corn genotypes through genomics-assisted breeding for crtRB1 and opaque2 genes.
Molecular biology reports - 1 Jun 2023
Singh Bhavna, Zunjare Rajkumar U, Shrivastava Smriti, Chand Gulab, Gain Nisrita, Bhatt Vinay, Muthusamy Vignesh, Hossain Firoz
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Malnutrition affects large section of population worldwide. Vitamin A and protein deficiencies have emerged as the major global health-issue. Traditional shrunken2 (sh2)-based sweet corn is deficient in provitamin A (proA), lysine and tryptophan. Natural variant of β-carotene hydroxylase1 (crtRB1) and opaque2 (o2) enhances proA, lysine and tryptophan in maize. So far, no sweet corn hybrid rich in...
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