Assessment of the protein quality of 15 new northern adapted cultivars of quality protein maize using amino acid analysis

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 5351-5361

  Zarkadas, Constantinos G ^a   Hamilton, Robert I ^a   Yu, Zi Ran ^a   Choi, Victor K ^a   Khanizadeh, Shahrokh ^b   Rose, Nicholas G W ^a   Pattison, Peter L ^a  

^a OTTAWA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amino acid composition; Amino acids; Corrected amino acid score; Essential amino acids; Maize; Opaque 2 maize; Protein quality; QPM; QPM performance; Quality protein maize

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEINS; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; LYSINE; O2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VEGETABLE PROTEIN; ZEIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORN; CULTIVAR; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAIZE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PLANT SEED; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN QUALITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACIDS; DIETARY PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, PLANT; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; PLANT PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEA MAYS;

AVENA; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0033667393     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf000374b     Document Type: Article

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