Article
β-glucan content in a panel of Triticum and Aegilops genotypes
2019-04-01
Abstract excerpt
Non-starch polysaccharides are the main components of dietary fibre, not digested in the small intestine, and with beneficial effects on human health. Among cereals, barley, oats and rye have the highest β-glucan content in the grain (from 3 to 10%), while wheat, rice and corn contain percentages lower than 1%. In this paper, we report the screening of a collection of cultivated and wild wheats for β-glucan conten...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 9570ffb7-ffc0-5be1-b09b-6f3c929a8d5b
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10722-019-00753-1
