Variability of maize genotypes for grain carotenoid composition;Variabilidade de genótipos de milho quanto à composição de carotenoides nos grãos

Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 164-173

  Cardoso, Wilton Soares ^a   Paes, Maria Cristina Dias ^b   Galvão, João Carlos Cardoso ^b   de Almeida Rios, Sara ^b   de Oliveira Guimarães, Paulo Evaristo ^b   Schaffert, Robert Eugene ^b   Borém, Aluízio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA MILHO E SORGO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biofortification; Breeding; Carotenoid; Vitamin A; Zea mays

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 67949099062     PISSN: 0100204X     EISSN: 16783921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-204X2009000200008     Document Type: Article

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