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Improving wheat grain composition for human health by constructing a QTL atlas for essential minerals.
Communications biology - 15 Aug 2024
Sigalas Petros P, Shewry Peter R, Riche Andrew, Wingen Luzie, Feng Cong, Siluveru Ajay, Chayut Noam, Burridge Amanda, Uauy Cristobal, Castle March, Parmar Saroj, Philp Charlie, Steele David, Orford Simon, Leverington-Waite Michelle, Cheng Shifeng, Griffiths Simon, Hawkesford Malcolm J
Abstract excerpt
Wheat is an important source of minerals for human nutrition and increasing grain mineral content can contribute to reducing mineral deficiencies. Here, we identify QTLs for mineral micronutrients in grain of wheat by determining the contents of six minerals in a total of eleven sample sets of three biparental populations from crosses between A.E. Watkins landraces and cv. Paragon. Twenty-three of the QTLs are...
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