Table 4.
Zinc content in brown rice of mapping populations and selected lines of mapping populations of various national institutions analyzed at the XRF facility of IIRR and the number of promising lines with zinc ≥35 mg/kg.
| Mapping populations (MP)/Selected lines (SL) | No. of lines | Zinc content (mg/kg) | No. of lines with zinc content ≥35 mg/kg | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Range | Mean | |||
| NS-MP | 250 | 10.7–37.0 | 20.0 | 1 |
| NSA-SL | 30 | 21.3–46.5 | 36.3 | 18 |
| NSB-MP | 178 | 13.8–33.6 | 21.5 | Nil |
| NSZ-MP | 376 | 11.6–30.1 | 19.4 | Nil |
| AMB-SL | 55 | 12.9–31.7 | 19.4 | Nil |
| IR681444/BAS-1-SL | 5 | 13.7–31.7 | 19.8 | Nil |
| SS-SL | 37 | 11.3–31.6 | 18.7 | Nil |
| NSJ, NSK, NSM, NSS, NST-MP | 857 | 8.1–27.3 | 11.5 | Nil |
| Abhaya/Moro, Abhaya/Swarna, Abhaya/TN1-SL | 36 | 11.9–21.4 | 15.8 | Nil |
| Cure-1/IR681444, Cure-10/MTU1010, Cure-2/IR681444, Cure-3/IR681444, Cure-4/IR681444, Cure-7/IR681444-SL | 62 | 10.8–27.1 | 18.4 | Nil |
| CHIR, GC, HP, IR68144/Moro-MP | 317 | 8.3–28.8 | 15.7 | Nil |
| IR681444/Kranti, IR 681444/Moro, IR681444/Abhaya, IR681444/BAS-8, IR681444/HMT, IR681444/IR64, IR681444/Kranti, IR681444/Mahamaya, IR681444/MTU1010, IR681444/Shyamala, IR681444/Swarna | 73 | 13.8–24.5 | 17.7 | Nil |
| BAS-1/IR681444, Kranthi/IR681444, Mahamaya/IR681444, Moro/IR681444, Safari-17/IR68144 | 25 | 13.5–26.9 | 18.8 | Nil |
| Swarna/Bas-1, Swarna/Danteswari, Swarna/HMT, Swarna/IR64, Swarna/IR68144, Swarna/IR681444, Swarna/Moro, Swarna/Moro, Swarna/MTU1010 | 51 | 11.6–27.3 | 16.2 | Nil |
| Total | 2,352 | NA | NA | 19 |