Table 1. List of 24 grain carotenoid traits that were annalyzed.
Traits listed in Table 2 | Traits listed in Table S5 |
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β-Carotenea | Phytofluenea |
β-Cryptoxanthina | ζ-Carotenea |
Zeaxanthina | Tetrahydrolycopenea |
α-Carotenea | Total β-xanthophyllsb |
Zeinoxanthina | Total α-xanthophyllsb |
Luteina | Provitamin Ac/total carotenoidsb |
Acyclic and monocyclic carotenesb | Acyclic carotenes/cyclic carotenesb |
Total carotenoidsb | β-Carotene/(β-cryptoxanthin + zeaxanthin)b |
β-Carotenoids/α-carotenoidsb | Total carotenes/total xanthophyllsb |
β-Xanthophylls/α-xanthophyllsb | |
β-Carotene/β-cryptoxanthinb | |
β-Cryptoxanthin/zeaxanthinb | |
α-Carotene/zeinoxanthinb | |
Zeinoxanthin/luteinb | |
Provitamin Ab,c |
The means of the BLUP values and heritability estimates for the 15 traits listed in the left column are reported in Table 2 and the values and estimates for the remaining traits are listed in Table S5.
Individual carotenoid compound measured by HPLC.
Derivative carotenoid trait.
Provitamin A is calculated as the sum of β-carotene, 1/2 α-carotene, and 1/2 β-cryptoxanthin.