Abstract
Maize, an important cereal crop, has a poor quality of endosperm protein due to the deficiency of essential amino acids, especially lysine and tryptophan. Discovery of mutants such as opaque-2 led to the development of nutritionally improved maize with a higher concentration of lysine and tryptophan. However, the pleiotropic effects associated with opaque-2 mutants necessitated the development of nutritionally improved hard kernel genotype, the present-day quality protein maize (QPM). The aim of present study was to analyze and compare the temporal profile of lysine and tryptophan in the developing maize kernel of normal, opaque-2 and QPM lines. A declining trend in protein along with tryptophan and lysine content was observed with increasing kernel maturity in the experimental genotypes. However, opaque-2 retained the maximum concentration of lysine (3.43) and tryptophan (1.09) at maturity as compared to QPM (lysine-3.05, tryptophan-0.99) and normal (lysine-1.99, tryptophan-0.45) lines. Opaque-2 mutation affects protein quality but has no effect on protein quantity. All maize types are nutritionally rich at early stages of kernel development indicating that early harvest for cattle feed would ensure a higher intake of lysine a...Continue Reading
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