1Department of Biochemistry, B A College of Agriculture
2AINP on Pesticide Residues, ICAR, Unit-9, Anand Agricultural University, Anand-388 110, Gujarat, India
*Author for correspondence: E-mail: niteshlitoriya@gmail.com
Online published on 16 February, 2019.
In recent years, organic farming is gaining importance due to higher nutritional value of its produce. At present, systematic and scientific data are unavailable on the effect of fertilizers on proteomic level. An experiment was carried out to study the comparative effect of organic and chemical manures/fertilizers on protein content and its quality in durum wheat (GW1). Organic manure fortified with bio-fertilizer had significant effect on protein quality. Albumin and globulin fractions were increased 4 and 13%, respectively in same treatment as compared to chemical fertilizer treatment. Amino acid profiling done by UPLC system, indicated that organic treatment showed 21 to 50% increase in essential amino acid content over chemical treatment in wheat. It showed significantly higher amount of lysine and tryptophan (0.314 and 0.204 g 100g−1) content, which were 24 and 29% higher, respectively as compared to chemical treatment due to higher proportion of albumin and globulin fractions.
Wheat, protein quality, protein fractions, amino acid content
