Fig. 5
From: Lower vicine content reduces the reproductive yield performance in faba bean (Vicia faba L.)
A proposed model of efficient selection strategy for high-yielding and low-vicine faba bean and hypothetical roles of vicine in improving reproductive and grain yield performance. (A) precise and efficient selection for low vicine-convicine (LVC) involving extensive phenotyping of large number of genotypes for yield component traits, their genotyping at VC locus for potential haplotypes/alleles and high-throughput vicine estimation for identification of high-yielding faba bean variants/mutants containing low vicine, whereas, inefficient selection without adequate phenotyping could lead to reduced reproductive/grain yield in faba bean. (B) vicine-convicine which are potent ANFs in faba bean might be involved in defense mechanism against biotic stress factors, stress regulatory pathways in adverse growing conditions, maintaining reproductive performance and seed viability, nucleic acid metabolism and regulation of unknown metabolic pathways, which ultimately lead to improved reproductive and grain yield performance.
