Comparative Assessment of Effectiveness of Alternative Genotyping Assays for Characterizing Carotenoids Accumulation in Tropical Maize Inbred Lines

• Published in: Agronomy (Basel) Vol. 11; no. 10; p. 2022
• Main Authors: Sayadi Maazou, Abdoul-Raouf, Gedil, Melaku, Adetimirin, Victor O., Meseka, Silvestro, Mengesha, Wende, Babalola, Deborah, Offornedo, Queen Nkem, Menkir, Abebe
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.10.2021
• Subjects: Alleles; biofortification; Biosynthesis; Carotene; Carotenoids; Chromatography; Corn; Cost analysis; Developing countries; Genes; Genotyping; Germplasm; Inbreeding; LDCs; Marker-assisted selection; Markers; Nucleotides; Performance evaluation; Polymorphism; provitamin A; Single-nucleotide polymorphism; Solvents; tropical maize inbred lines; Vitamin A; Vitamin deficiency; β-Carotene; United States > US; Africa

The development of maize varieties with increased concentration of Provitamin A (PVA) is an effective and affordable strategy to combat vitamin A deficiency in developing nations. However, the considerably high cost of carotene analysis poses a major challenge for maize PVA biofortification, prompti...