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Pro‐vitamin A carotenoid content of 48 plantain (Musa AAB genome) cultivars sourced from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

BACKGROUND: Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is widespread in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Unlike in developed countries, where the main source of vitamin A comes from meat, the diet of poor populations in SSA is largely plant based. It is thus important to identify local / popular plants with higher vitamin...

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Autores principales: Blomme, Guy, Ocimati, Walter, Nabuuma, Deborah, Sivirihauma, Charles, Davey, Mark, Buah, Stephen, Van den Bergh, Inge, Vutseme, Lusenge, Bahati, Liliane, Ekesa, Beatrice
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6973089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31591722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.10058