Surveying mineral content (Ca, K, Na) in key Lentil Accessions
Quantify the mineral and trace element profiles for a panel of elite Lentil cultivars.
Identify germplasm with high levels of beneficial minerals and trace elements to act as breeding material when targeting increased nutritional value.
Identify potential markers for use in breeding programs when targeting increased nutritional value.
Germplasm
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Lens
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Germplasm Scientific Name |
Lens culinaris
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Germplasm Collection |
EVOLVES Mineral Diversity Panel
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Lentils are a good dietary source of essential minerals for the proper functioning of the human body. We evaluated 34 cultivars and elite lentil lines representing the breadth of the Canadian breeding program. Trials were established in 10 site-years across Saskatchewan. Concentrations of 27 minerals were quantified with an inductive coupled argon plasma emission spectrometer in whole and dehulled lentil seeds. Lithium (Li), vanadium (V), chromium (Cr), cobalt (Co), arsenic (As), silver (Ag), cadmium (Cd), tin (Sn), lanthanum (La), mercury (Hg), and lead (Pb) had concentrations below the quantification limit and were excluded from further analysis. The effects of site year, tissue type (whole and dehulled), and lentil genotypes were analyzed using a mixed model. Mineral concentrations of iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), magnesium (Mg), sodium (Na), potassium (K), phosphorus (P), sulfur (S), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), molybdenum (Mo), boron (B), nickel (Ni), selenium (Se), aluminum (Al), and barium (Ba) was different among genotypes and across environments. Most minerals except Cu had significantly different concentrations between whole and dehulled seeds. Ca, Fe, Mg, Mn, B, Al, and Ba were more concentrated in whole seeds, while K, S, and Ni were higher in dehulled seeds. Among the 34 genotypes, CDC Impala had the highest Fe, Zn, K, P, S, and Cu concentrations. Lentil genotypes with a higher composition of several minerals could be a starting point for enhancing mineral composition in lentils.
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Experiments
Quantify the mineral and trace element profiles for a panel of elite Lentil cultivars.
Associated Datasets
Mineral Concentration (XLSX, TSV)
This dataset includes the raw concentration of 16 minerals in whole and dehulled seeds of 34 lentil genotypes evaluated across 10 site-years in Saskatchewan during 2017-2018. These are the concentrations per plot which were averaged to generate the "Mean Mineral Concentration per genotype (S4)" dataset below.
Mean Mineral Concentration per genotype (XLSX, TSV)
This dataset includes the concentration of 16 minerals in whole and dehulled seeds of 34 lentil genotypes evaluated across 10 site-years in Saskatchewan during 2017-2018. These values represent the average concentration for each genotype obtained by averaging results across site-years. These data are also includes as supplementary material S4 in the linked publication. In this file, "WS" refers to whole seeds and "DS" refers to dehulled seeds and the units for these measurements are indicated in row 4 for each mineral.
Mean Yield in each site-year (XLSX, TSV)
This dataset provides the yield of the 34 genotypes evaluated for their concentration of 16 minerals grown across 10 site-years in Saskatchewan during 2017-18. Specifically, each site-year where the trial was grown is indicated as a column in this file and each genotype is a row. The value of any cell is then the mean yield value for that genotype in that site-year. These data are also included as supplementary material S5 in the linked publication.