Quality assessment of flax advanced breeding lines varying in seed coat color and their potential use in the food and industrial applications.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the increasing consumer awareness of the strong relationship between food and health, flax became a promising functional food due to its bioactive nutraceutical composition. Intra-specific crosses of eight contrasting flax genotypes were performed previously, and within segregating F6 progeny families, we investigated a close-up composition of phytochemicals derived from whole seeds.

Results

The considerable genetic variation among the flax F6 families suggested that intra-specific hybridization is essential in flax breeding to obtain and broaden genetic variability and largely affirmed the opportunity for selecting promising lines. Also, significant variations in the targeted metabolite contents and antioxidant properties were observed among brown and yellow

SUBMITTER: Abtahi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10804595 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature