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Guwela, Veronica F., Maliro, Moses F., Broadley, Martin R., Hawkesford, Malcolm J., Bokosi, James M., Grewal, Surbhi, Coombes, Benedict, Hall, Anthony 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1806-020X, Yang, Caiyun, Banda, Mike, Wilson, Lolita and King, Julie
(2024)
The 4T and 7T introgressions from Amblyopyrum muticum and the 5Au introgression from Triticum urartu increases grain zinc and iron concentrations in Malawian wheat backgrounds.
Frontiers in Plant Science, 15.
ISSN 1664-462X
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Abstract
Micronutrient deficiencies (MNDs) particularly zinc (Zn) and iron (Fe) remain widespread in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) due to low dietary intake. Wheat is an important source of energy globally, although cultivated wheat is inherently low in grain micronutrient concentrations. Malawian wheat/Am. muticum and Malawian wheat/T. urartu BC1F3 introgression lines, developed by crossing three Malawian wheat varieties (Kenya nyati, Nduna and Kadzibonga) with DH-348 (wheat/Am. muticum) and DH-254 (wheat/T. urartu), were phenotyped for grain Zn and Fe, and associated agronomic traits in Zn-deficient soils, in Malawi. 98% (47) of the BC1F3 introgression lines showed higher Zn above the checks Paragon, Chinese Spring, Kadzibonga, Kenya Nyati and Nduna. 23% (11) of the introgression lines showed a combination of high yields and an increase in grain Zn by 16-30 mg kg -1 above Nduna and Kadzibonga, and 11-25 mg kg -1 above Kenya nyati, Paragon and Chinese Spring. Among the 23%, 64% (7) also showed 8-12 mg kg -1 improvement in grain Fe compared to Nduna and Kenya nyati. Grain Zn concentrations showed a significant positive correlation with grain Fe, whilst grain Zn and Fe negatively and significantly correlated with TKW and grain yield. This work will contribute to the efforts of increasing mineral nutrient density in wheat, specifically targeting countries in the SSA.
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| Additional Information: | Data availability statement: The original contributions presented in the study are publicly available. This data can be found here:PRJEB71366 and PRJEB70905/European Nucleotide Archive (ENA). Funding Information: The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by a studentship funded by the Future Food Beacon of Excellence, University of Nottingham, and Rothamsted Research UK (VG, MBr, MH, JK), registered jointly at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (JB, MBa, MM, VG). This work was also supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council as part of the Designing Future Wheat (BB/P016855/1) (JK MH, CY and SG) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, through the GeoNutrition project (INV-009129) (MBr and LW).Rothamsted Research receives strategic funding from the Growing Health (BB/X010953/1) (MBr) Institute Strategic Programmes. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | biofortification,genotyping,introgression,iron,micronutrients,phenotyping,zinc,plant science ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1110 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Biological Sciences |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Oct 2024 15:30 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 12:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/97155 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpls.2024.1346046 |
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