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- A study evaluated 100 Indian Musa accessions for their mineral content, revealing significant genetic variability, particularly for calcium and potassium, with distribution patterns leaning towards positivity.
- The mineral concentration in fresh fruit pulp followed a hierarchy, with potassium being the highest and zinc the lowest, and 100 g of fruit pulp can provide a decent percentage of daily mineral needs for Indians.
- Calcium and iron showed the highest heritability, while zinc had the lowest, and the analysis found that magnesium directly influences iron content, although the physical grouping of accessions by genetic characteristics was unsuccessful.
Article Abstract
Evaluation of 100 Indian Musa accessions (IMA) for nine elements in their fresh fruit pulp (FFP) revealed genetic variability of 4.7-fold for K & Mg to 111.1-fold for Ca but, only with either highly or moderately positively skewed distribution. The descending order of mineral concentrations (MC) was K > Ca > Na > Mg > Fe > Mn > B > P > Zn. 100 g FFP contributes fairly about 5 (Fe) to 10% (Mn, Ca & Mg) of daily mineral requirement of Indians. Calcium (97%) and Fe (96%) showed the highest heritability while Zn exhibited lowest (85%). Significantly positive correlation was observed for all minerals. Magnesium had maximum direct effect on Fe content followed by Mn, Zn and Na in path analysis. Both principal component analysis and cluster analysis failed to group the IMA according to their ploidy/genome/subgroups. Twenty commercial cultivars were placed in top 10 positions based on their MC. Besides Ca and Mg, IMA were richer for all micronutrients than the world's Musa gene-pool.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2021.130080 | DOI Listing |
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