Genome-wide association studies identified three independent polymorphisms associated with α-tocopherol content in maize kernels.
Tocopherols are a class of four natural compounds that can provide nutrition and function as antioxidant in both plants and animals. Maize kernels have low α-tocopherol content, the compound with the highest vitamin E activity, thus, raising the risk of vitamin E deficiency in human populations rely...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012
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