Title

Content analysis of vitamins, dietary fibers and amino acids  in a wide collection of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) from Tibet, China

Authors

Haijiao Huang, Xiaoli Gao, Yang Li, Pengjia Tian, Yangzong Nima, Zhaxi Laba, Zhen Ci, Xinhong Wei, Ji Qu, Weixing Guan, Wenhua Liao*

Affiliation

Tibet Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Sciences, Lhasa 850000, China (http://www.taaas.org/)

Email

Wenhua Liao, Email: liaowenhua@taaas.org

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received March 18, 2020; Revised April 1, 2020; Accepted April 3, 2020; Published April 30, 2020

Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is an important agricultural crop. Various studies on the genetic diversity, biochemical and molecular attributes on the species are known. However, information on nutritional variability in a large panel of barley cultivars is limited. Therefore, it is of interest for a quantitative analysis of vitamins, amino acids and dietary fibers in 245 barley of Tibet region in China. The coefficient of variation analysis revealed strong variation of vitamins (VB1>VB2>VE), essential amino acids (valine, histidine, methionine, lysine), nonessential amino acids (Proline, tyrosine, cysteine), dietary fibers, (cellulose>lignin). Principal component analysis detected three clusters of cultivars, each with specific characteristics. However, the most nutritional cultivars were found in Cluster 3, which encompassed 52 cultivars. Distinctly, six cultivars (ZQ2000, BJX230, BJX229, BJX249, BJX191 and BJX265) were identified with highest nutritional values. Overall, our study reveals a large nutritional diversity in barley cultivars from Tibet and represents an important reference for the exploitation of these germplasm in crop improvement and breeding programmes.

Keywords

Nutritional diversity; germplasm; barley; China; crop improvement.

Citation

Huang et al. 314- (2020) PDF, HTML ABSTRACT, DOI, PubMed Central

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.