Effects of Two Low Phytic Acid Mutations on Seed Quality and Nutritional Traits in Soybean (Glycine maxL. Merr)

2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (9) ◽  
pp. 3632-3638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng-Jie Yuan ◽  
Dan-Hua Zhu ◽  
Bo Deng ◽  
Xu-Jun Fu ◽  
De-Kun Dong ◽  
...  
Plants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Raboy

The low phytic acid (lpa), or “low-phytate” seed trait can provide numerous potential benefits to the nutritional quality of foods and feeds and to the sustainability of agricultural production. Major benefits include enhanced phosphorus (P) management contributing to enhanced sustainability in non-ruminant (poultry, swine, and fish) production; reduced environmental impact due to reduced waste P in non-ruminant production; enhanced “global” bioavailability of minerals (iron, zinc, calcium, magnesium) for both humans and non-ruminant animals; enhancement of animal health, productivity and the quality of animal products; development of “low seed total P” crops which also can enhance management of P in agricultural production and contribute to its sustainability. Evaluations of this trait by industry and by advocates of biofortification via breeding for enhanced mineral density have been too short term and too narrowly focused. Arguments against breeding for the low-phytate trait overstate the negatives such as potentially reduced yields and field performance or possible reductions in phytic acid’s health benefits. Progress in breeding or genetically-engineering high-yielding stress-tolerant low-phytate crops continues. Perhaps due to the potential benefits of the low-phytate trait, the challenge of developing high-yielding, stress-tolerant low-phytate crops has become something of a holy grail for crop genetic engineering. While there are widely available and efficacious alternative approaches to deal with the problems posed by seed-derived dietary phytic acid, such as use of the enzyme phytase as a feed additive, or biofortification breeding, if there were an interest in developing low-phytate crops with good field performance and good seed quality, it could be accomplished given adequate time and support. Even with a moderate reduction in yield, in light of the numerous benefits of low-phytate types as human foods or animal feeds, should one not grow a nutritionally-enhanced crop variant that perhaps has 5% to 10% less yield than a standard variant but one that is substantially more nutritious? Such crops would be a benefit to human nutrition especially in populations at risk for iron and zinc deficiency, and a benefit to the sustainability of agricultural production.


Plants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleonora Cominelli ◽  
Roberto Pilu ◽  
Francesca Sparvoli

Phytic acid has two main roles in plant tissues: Storage of phosphorus and regulation of different cellular processes. From a nutritional point of view, it is considered an antinutritional compound because, being a cation chelator, its presence reduces mineral bioavailability from the diet. In recent decades, the development of low phytic acid (lpa) mutants has been an important goal for nutritional seed quality improvement, mainly in cereals and legumes. Different lpa mutations affect phytic acid biosynthetic genes. However, other lpa mutations isolated so far, affect genes coding for three classes of transporters: A specific group of ABCC type vacuolar transporters, putative sulfate transporters, and phosphate transporters. In the present review, we summarize advances in the characterization of these transporters in cereals and legumes. Particularly, we describe genes, proteins, and mutants for these different transporters, and we report data of in silico analysis aimed at identifying the putative orthologs in some other cereal and legume species. Finally, we comment on the advantage of using such types of mutants for crop biofortification and on their possible utility to unravel links between phosphorus and sulfur metabolism (phosphate and sulfate homeostasis crosstalk).


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2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 2490-2499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Averitt ◽  
Chao Shang ◽  
Luciana Rosso ◽  
Jun Qin ◽  
Mengchen Zhang ◽  
...  

Crop Science ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 363 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.N. Rutger ◽  
V. Raboy ◽  
K.A.K. Moldenhauer ◽  
R.J. Bryant ◽  
F.N. Lee ◽  
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Heliyon ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. e07912
Author(s):  
Mohammed A.E. Bakhite ◽  
Nkanyiso J. Sithole ◽  
Lembe S. Magwaza ◽  
Alfred O. Odindo ◽  
Shirly T. Magwaza ◽  
...  

Crop Science ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 2403-2408 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Guttieri ◽  
K. M. Peterson ◽  
E. J. Souza

1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 1600-1603 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. DAGHER ◽  
S. SHADAREVIAN ◽  
W. BIRBARI

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