Table 4 Biochemical evaluation of selected introgressed progenies with their respective recurrent parents.

From: Marker-assisted pyramiding of lycopene-ε-cyclase, β-carotene hydroxylase1 and opaque2 genes for development of biofortified maize hybrids

Introgressed inbreds

Lysine (%)

Tryptophan (%)

BC (ppm)

BCX (ppm)

proA (ppm)

QβLM11-A

0.298

0.080

7.46

3.65

9.28

QβLM11-B

0.311

0.086

5.70

3.62

7.51

QβLM11-C

0.361

0.066

6.09

4.13

8.16

QLM11

0.345

0.089

1.06

0.70

1.41

QβLM12-A

0.375

0.088

7.01

2.96

8.49

QβLM12-B

0.435

0.075

5.80

4.29

7.94

QβLM12-C

0.333

0.068

7.40

4.46

9.63

QLM12

0.362

0.091

0.75

0.62

1.05

QβLM13-A

0.335

0.090

6.27

3.82

8.18

QβLM13-B

0.383

0.074

6.89

4.25

9.01

QβLM13-C

0.295

0.083

5.39

3.63

7.20

QLM13

0.354

0.086

1.12

0.46

1.35

QβLM14-A

0.362

0.086

4.95

4.39

7.14

QβLM14-B

0.279

0.092

5.87

3.70

7.72

QβLM14-C

0.336

0.079

6.12

4.47

8.36

QLM14

0.321

0.094

1.25

0.22

1.36

SE(d)

0.01

0.00

0.25

0.19

0.21

CD (0.05%)

0.04

0.01

0.69

0.54

0.59

  1. BC, Beta-carotene; BCX, Beta-cryptoxanthin; proA, Provitamin-A; SE, standard error of difference; CD, critical difference for comparing the averages among sets.
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