Lentil (Lens culinaris L.) as a candidate crop for iron biofortification: Is there genetic potential for iron bioavailability?

Field Crops Research

Volumn 144, Issue , 2013, Pages 119-125

  DellaValle, Diane M ^a   Thavarajah, Dil ^b   Thavarajah, Pushparajah ^b   Vandenberg, Albert ^c   Glahn, Raymond P ^a  

^a ROBERT W HOLLEY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biofortification; Caco 2 cells; Iron bioavailability; Lentils

Indexed keywords

CROP; IRON; NUTRIENT; NUTRIENT LIMITATION;

EID: 84874564524     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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