Variability for Glutenins, Gluten Quality, Iron, Zinc and Phytic Acid in a Set of One Hundred and Fifty-Eight Common Wheat Landraces from Iran

Zahra Maryami,Ana Belén Huertas-García,Fausto Cervantes,Maria Itria Ibba,Thomas Payne,Mohammad Reza Azimi,Carlos Guzman,Nayelli Hernández-Espinosa,Velu Govindan

doi:10.3390/agronomy10111797

Abstract

Bread wheat can be used to make different products thanks to the presence of gluten, a protein network that confers unique visco-elastic properties to wheat doughs. Gluten is composed by gliadins and glutenins. The glutenins can be further divided into high and low-molecular-weight glutenins (HMWGs and LMWGs, respectively) and are encoded by Glu-1 and Glu-3 loci. The variability of these genes is associated with differences in quality. Because of this, the identification of novel glutenin alleles is still an important target. In this study, 57 haplotypes or glutenin combinations were registered among a set of 158 Iranian landraces and five novel HMWGs alleles were identified. The landraces were also characterized for several quality traits, including gluten quality, which allowed to associate the different glutenin alleles with low or high quality. Other quality traits examined were iron, zinc, and phytate contents, which are intimately related with the nutritional quality. Important variation for these components was found as well as for the phytate:iron/zinc molar ratios (related to the potential bioavailability of these important micronutrients). The landraces identified in the present study (some of them combining high gluten quality with low phytate:zinc values) could be a useful resource for breeders who aim to improve the wheat end-use quality and especially the content of zinc and its relative bioavailability.

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IntroductionCommon or bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L. ssp. aestivum) is the most cultivated and economically important
Among the wheat species, common or bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L. ssp. aestivum) is the most cultivated and economically important
In terms of overall gluten quality, measured with the SDS-sedimentation test, the landraces exhibited a large variation, with accessions showing extremely high values associated with very good gluten quality, and others with very low values associated with poor gluten quality

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Introduction

Common or bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L. ssp. aestivum) is the most cultivated and economically important. Aestivum) is the most cultivated and economically important. 94% of the total wheat cultivated area is dedicated to this crop. One of the main reasons behind bread wheat success is its versatility to produce diverse food products [1]. Wheat constitutes a staple food worldwide, providing ~20% of the total calories and proteins to human diets globally. Bread wheat can be used to make many different products due to the presence of gluten. A gluten network is formed after mixing wheat flour with water and confers the unique visco-elastic properties (elasticity and extensibility) of wheat doughs [2]

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