High environmental stress yields greater tocotrienol content while changing vitamin E profiles of wild emmer wheat seeds

Journal of Medicinal Food

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 216-223

  Watts, Emily J ^a,b   Shen, Yu ^c   Lansky, Ephraim P ^c   Nevo, Eviatar ^c   Bobe, Gerd ^a   Traber, Maret G ^a,b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Emmer wheat; Evolution Canyon; Tocopherols; Tocotrienols; Vitamin E; tocopherol

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ALPHA TOCOTRIENOL; CHROMAN DERIVATIVE; GAMMA TOCOPHEROL; MUTASE; PLASTOCHROMANOL 8; TOCOPHEROL CYCLASE; TOCOTRIENOL, BETA;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CEREAL; EMMER; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE; ISRAEL; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT RESPONSE; PLANT SEED; PLANT STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VTE1 GENE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM DICOCCON; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DICOCCOIDES; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

ALPHA-TOCOPHEROL; CHROMANS; ENVIRONMENT; GAMMA-TOCOPHEROL; INTRAMOLECULAR TRANSFERASES; ISRAEL; SEEDS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TOCOTRIENOLS; TRITICUM; VITAMIN E;

EID: 84922448116     PISSN: 1096620X     EISSN: 15577600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2014.0017     Document Type: Article

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