1Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, AC&RI, Madurai-625104, Tamil Nadu, India
2Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, AD AC & RI, Trichy-622001, India
3Department of Plant Biotechnology (CPMB), TNAU, Cbe-3, Coimbatore-641003, Tamil Nadu, India
5Department of Plant Breeding and Head, Department of Cotton, TNAU, Cbe-3, Coimbatore-641003, Tamil Nadu, India
*Email: anbudanvel@gmail.com
Online published on 6 August, 2022.
The low level of micronutrients such as iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) in cereals crops is a widespread nutrition and health problem in developing countries like Africa and South Asian countries. Nutrition enrichment is one of the important processes, for enhancing the micronutrient content like Fe and Zn content and their bioavailability in small grained crops like rice. Evaluation on wild genotypes for Fe and Zn content is the initial step of determining their nutritional availability. In this study, we examined 37 accessions of pigmented rice genotypes and performed their diversity analysis along with three ruling check varieties for Fe and Zn concentration. Iron concentration ranged from 4.4 to 19.6 mg/Kg and zinc concentration from 12.0 to 49.0 mg/Kg.
Diversity, Iron, Pigmented rice, Variability, Zinc
