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NUTRIENT RICH CMS HYBRID BREEDING IN TROPICAL CARROTS (DAUCUS CAROTA L.)
Article number
939_6
Pages
53 – 61
Language
English
Abstract
Tropical carrot is an extensively grown vegetable crop in North Indian plains.
It is cherished by one and all, rich and poor for its colour, flavour and taste in various forms like raw, cooked, pickle, candy, puddle, juice, etc.
Traditionally, red carrots are popularly grown for commerce by the farmers from their own retained and maintained specific maturity cultivar seeds.
Of late, through systematic breeding for about a decade now, we have developed strains with high lycopene, anthocyanin, β-carotene and lutein content.
These pigments confer different colours to carrot like red due to lycopene, black due to anthocyanin, yellow due to lutein and orange due to carotene.
These pigments display a powerful antioxidants activity which can prevent diseases.
In order to develop biofortified carrots with two pigments, cytoplasmic male sterility was integrated through backcross breeding into improved breeding lines for exploiting new hybrid combinations.
This paper reports about the prospects of new bioactive compound rich high yielding hybrids suitability for fresh market and functional food industry.
It is cherished by one and all, rich and poor for its colour, flavour and taste in various forms like raw, cooked, pickle, candy, puddle, juice, etc.
Traditionally, red carrots are popularly grown for commerce by the farmers from their own retained and maintained specific maturity cultivar seeds.
Of late, through systematic breeding for about a decade now, we have developed strains with high lycopene, anthocyanin, β-carotene and lutein content.
These pigments confer different colours to carrot like red due to lycopene, black due to anthocyanin, yellow due to lutein and orange due to carotene.
These pigments display a powerful antioxidants activity which can prevent diseases.
In order to develop biofortified carrots with two pigments, cytoplasmic male sterility was integrated through backcross breeding into improved breeding lines for exploiting new hybrid combinations.
This paper reports about the prospects of new bioactive compound rich high yielding hybrids suitability for fresh market and functional food industry.
Authors
N.A. Kushlaf, P. Kalia
Keywords
carotenoids, anthocyanins, cytoplasmic male sterility, heterosis breeding
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