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Genetic analysis of grain yield and resistance of extra-early-maturing maize inbreds to northern corn leaf blight by Badu-Apraku, Baffour, Bankole, F., Fakorede, M.A.B., Ayinde, O., Ortega Beltran, A.

“…One hundred and fiftyEEMhybrids, obtained by crossing 15 inbreds each of white- and yellow-endosperm maize using the North Carolina Design II, plus six checks, were evaluated in nine environments, six of which were inoculated with an isolate of E. turcicum and three of which were non-inoculated in 2018 and 2019. …”
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Trait profile of maize varieties preferred by farmers and value chain actors in northern Ghana by Adu, G.B., Badu-Apraku, Baffour, Akromah, R., Amegbor, I.K., Adogoba, D.S., Haruna, A., Manigben, K.A., Aboyadana, P.A., Wiredu, A.

“…Results of the participatory variety selection study revealed that across districts, farmers preferred high-yielding varieties with multiple cobs per plant, white grain endosperm color, and bigger and fully filled cobs. …”
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Selection of extra-early white quality protein maize (Zea mays L.) inbred lines for drought and low soil nitrogen resilient hybrid production by Annor, B., Badu-Apraku, B.

“…During the 2012 minor and major rainy seasons, 96 extra-early white QPM inbreds and four (4) normal endosperm maize inbred checks were assessed inmulti-location trials under stress and optimal conditions in Nigeria. …”
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Effect of parboiling conditions on zinc and iron retention in biofortified and non-biofortified milled rice by Taleon, Victor, Hasan, Md. Zakiul, Jongstra, Roelinda, Wegmüller, Rita, Bashar, Mohammad Khairul

“…More zinc from the inner endosperm moved towards the outer layers at high soaking temperature, resulting in lower zinc TR for milled parboiled rice soaked in hotter water. …”
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Assessing the carotenoid profiles and allelic diversity of yellow maize inbred lines adapted to mid-altitude subhumid maize agroecology in Ethiopia by Garoma, B., Azimach, G., Bante, K., Menkir, A.

“…To this end, a total of 161 yellow/orange inbred lines, selected from among the 752 lines, were evaluated for their endosperm PVA and other carotenoid compounds levels in two separate trials composed of 63 and 98 inbred lines in 2020 and 2021, respectively. …”
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Engineering high α‐amylase levels in wheat grain lowers Falling Number but improves baking properties by Ral, Jean-Philippe, Whan, Alex, Larroque, Oscar, Leyne, Emmett, Pritchard, Jeni, Dielen, Anne-Sophie, Howitt, Crispin A., Morell, Matthew K., Newberry, Marcus

“…This work demonstrated that wheat in which an isoform α‐amylase (TaAmy3) was overexpressed in the endosperm of developing grain to levels of up to 100‐fold higher than the wild‐type resulted in low FN similar to those seen in LMA‐ or PHS‐affected grains. …”
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Large-scale production and evaluation of marker-free indica rice IR64 expressing phytoferritin genes by Oliva, Norman, Chadha-Mohanty, Prabhjit, Poletti, Susanna, Abrigo, Editha, Atienza, Genelou, Torrizo, Lina, Garcia, Ruby, Dueñas, Conrado, Poncio, Mar Aristeo, Balindong, Jeanette, Manzanilla, Marina, Montecillo, Florencia, Zaidem, Maricris, Barry, Gerard, Hervé, Philippe, Shou, Huxia, Slamet-Loedin, Inez H.

“…In this study, we generated and evaluated a large number of rice or soybean ferritin over-accumulators in rice mega-variety IR64, including marker-free events, by introducing soybean or rice ferritin genes into the endosperm for product development. Accumulation of the protein was confirmed by ELISA, in situ immunological detection, and Western blotting. …”
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A two-gene strategy increases iron and zinc concentrations in wheat flour, improving mineral bioaccessibility by Harrington, Sophie A., Connorton, James M., Nyangoma, Natasha I. M., McNelly, Rose, Morgan, Yvie M. L., Aslam, Mohamad F., Sharp, Paul A., Johnson, Alexander A. T., Uauy, Cristobal, Balk, Janneke

“…Here we demonstrate that a transgenic approach combining endosperm-specific expression of the wheat VACUOLAR IRON TRANSPORTER gene TaVIT2-D with constitutive expression of the rice (Oryza sativa) NICOTIANAMINE SYNTHASE gene OsNAS2 significantly increases the total concentration of zinc and relocates iron to white-flour fractions. …”
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Nutritional and industrial quality assessment of Spanish durum wheat commercial cultivars by Garcia-Calabres, Virginia, Andrade, Francisco, Tabbita, Facundo, Castilla, Alejandro, Sillero, Josefina Carmen, Hernandez-Espinosa, Nayelli, Ibba, Maria Itria, Guzman, Carlos, Alvarez, Juan B.

“…Arabinoxylans are the major dietary fibre component within the durum wheat endosperm. Twelve durum wheat cultivars were grown in five locations over two cropping seasons. …”
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Application of identified QTL-marker associations in rice quality improvement through a design-breeding approach by Wang, J.K., Wan, X, Li, H, Pfeiffer, Wolfgang H., Crouch, J.H., Wan, J

“…A permanent mapping population of rice consisting of 65 non-idealized chromosome segment substitution lines (denoted as CSSL1 to CSSL65) and 82 donor parent chromosome segments (denoted as M1 to M82) was used to identify QTL with additive effects for two rice quality traits, area of chalky endosperm (ACE) and amylose content (AC), by a likelihood ratio test based on stepwise regression. …”
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Participatory plant breeding in maize for the Chhotanagpur plateau of Eastern India by Kumar, Arun, Ganguli, D.K., Prasad, S.C., Gangwar, J.S., Virk, Daljit S., Witcombe, John R.

“…At the beginning of the project, a base population was produced in Ihe rainy season of 1997 by making nine crosses between three yellow-endospermed flint varieties (Suwan, Birsa Makka, and Chandan) and three white endospermed flint varieties (GDRM 187, Shweta, and Rudarpur local). …”
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Genetic loci controlling carotenoid biosynthesis in diverse tropical maize lines by Azmach, G., Menkir, A., Spilane, C., Gedil, Melaku A

“…A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of maize endosperm carotenoids was conducted using a panel of 130 diverse yellow maize tropical inbred lines genotyped with Genotyping by Sequencing (GBS) SNP markers. …”
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Detection of non-additive gene action within elite maize populations evaluated in contrasting environments under rainforest ecology in Nigeria by Akinwale, R.O., Eze, C.E., Traoré, D., Menkir, A.

“…Results of grouping were not related to the endosperm colour but grouping based on HGCAMT was related to the pedigree of the varieties. …”
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Combining ability of extra-early maturing provitamin A maize (Zea mays L.) inbred lines and performance of derived hybrids under Striga hermonthica infestation and low soil nitroge... by Makinde, S.A., Badu-Apraku, B., Ariyo, O.J., Porbeni, J.B.

“…Low soil nitrogen (low-N), Striga hermonthica infestation and vitamin A deficiency in normal endosperm maize are major challenges confronting maize production and nutrition of the people of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). …”
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Flood resilience loci SUBMERGENCE 1 and ANAEROBIC GERMINATION 1 interact in seedlings established underwater by Alam, Rejbana, Hummel, Maureen, Yeung, Elaine, Locke, Anna M., Ignacio, John Carlos I., Baltazar, Miriam D., Jia, Zhenyu, Ismail, Abdelbagi M., Septiningsih, Endang M., Bailey-Serres, Julia

“…ANAEROBIC GERMINATION 1 (AG1), encoding TREHALOSE 6‐PHOSPHATE PHOSPHATASE 7 (TPP7), promotes mobilization of endosperm reserves to enhance the elongation of a hollow coleoptile in seeds that are seeded directly into shallow paddies. …”
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Genome-wide association study of grain appearance and milling quality in a worldwide collection of indica rice germplasm by Qiu, Xianjin, Pang, Yunlong, Yuan, Zhihua, Xing, Danying, Xu, Jianlong, Dingkuhn, Michael, Li, Zhikang, Ye, Guoyou

“…Here, we reported a genome-wide association study in indica rice to identify QTL associated with 10 appearance and milling quality related traits, including grain length, grain width, grain length to width ratio, grain thickness, thousand grain weight, degree of endosperm chalkiness, percentage of grains with chalkiness, brown rice rate, milled rice rate and head milled rice rate. …”
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Grouping of early maturing quality protein maize inbreds based on SNP markers and combining ability under multiple environments by Badu-Apraku, Baffour, Annor, B., Oyekunle, M., Akinwale, R., Fakorede, M.A.B., Talabi, A.O., Akaogu, I.C., Melaku, G., Fasanmade, Y.

“…Ninety-one diallel crosses derived from 14 early maturing yellow-endosperm QPM inbreds were evaluated from 2010 to 2012 under Striga infested, drought, low-N and optimal environments in Nigeria. …”
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Markertrait association analysis of functional gene markers for provitamin A levels across diverse tropical yellow maize inbred lines by Azmach, G., Gedil, Melaku A, Menkir, A., Spillane, Charles

“…PCR -based DNA markers distinguishingalleles of three key genes of maize endosperm carotenoid biosynthesis (PSY1, lcyE and crtRB1) have been developedto facilitate maize provitamin A biofortification via marker assisted selection. …”
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Impact of provitamin A biofortified maize consumption on carotenoid status of Zambian children by Craft, Neal E., Palmer, Amanda, Schultze, Kerry, Chileshe, Justin, Barffour, Maxwell, Siamusantu, Ward, Klemm, Rolf, West, Keith

“…Objectives Provitamin A carotenoid biofortified “orange” maize has been developed as a vitamin A deficiency control strategy using selective breeding for the β-carotene hydroxylase-1 gene, which increases β-carotene, β-cryptoxanthin, and zeaxanthin in the endosperm. We conducted a cluster-randomized trial to test the impact of orange maize consumption (a predominantly β-carotene-rich variety) on serum retinol concentration in rural Zambian children (4–8 y). …”
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Biofortified indica rice attains iron and zinc nutrition dietary targets in the field by Trijatmiko, Kurniawan R, Dueñas, Conrado, Tsakirpaloglou, Nikolaos, Torrizo, Lina, Mae Arines, Felichi, Adeva, Cheryl, Balindong, Jeanette, Oliva, Norman, Sapasap, Maria V, Borrero Correa, Jaime C., Rey, Jessica, Francisco, Perigio, Nelson, Andrew, Nakanishi, Hiromi, Lombi, Enzo, Tako, Elad, Glahn, Raymond P., Stangoulis, James C.R., Chadha-Mohanty, Prabhjit, Johnson, Alexander A.T., Tohme, Joseph M., Barry, Gerard, Slamet-Loedin, Inez H.

“…Event NASFer-274 containing rice nicotianamine synthase (OsNAS2) and soybean ferritin (SferH-1) genes showed a single locus insertion without a yield penalty or altered grain quality. Endosperm Fe and Zn enrichment was visualized by X-ray fluorescence imaging. …”
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