Table 4.
Sample | Sulphur amino acid (μmol g−1 FW) |
Sulphur amino acid (% of total amino acid) |
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Total Cys | Total Met | Total Cys | Total Met | |
cv Kalya | 31.7 | 15.3 | 1.08 | 0.66 |
TC Con×SSA | 32.9 | 23.3 | 1.06 | 0.98 |
SAT 5B3×SSA | 32.5 | 24.0 | 1.10 | 0.97 |
Values are the mean of determinations on hydrolysed flour from pools of at least 7 g of mature F2 seed for each of two plants per genotype. The SDs of the measurements were ≤8%. Flour samples contained ∼12% moisture (i.e. dry weight ∼88% of FW).
Cys, cysteine; Met, methionine.