Publications by authors named "Deepti Angra"
We identified marker-trait associations for key faba bean agronomic traits and genomic signatures of selection within a global germplasm collection. Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is a high-protein grain legume crop with great potential for sustainable protein production.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIncreasing the proportion of locally produced plant protein in currently meat-rich diets could substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and loss of biodiversity. However, plant protein production is hampered by the lack of a cool-season legume equivalent to soybean in agronomic value. Faba bean (Vicia faba L.
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- Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is a nutrient-rich legume, but its seeds can produce harmful compounds called vicine and convicine, which can lead to favism in susceptible individuals.
- Researchers identified an enzyme named VC1, which is crucial for the production of these compounds, revealing that its activity is linked to the purine GTP rather than previously thought pyrimidine sources.
- The study suggests that faba bean varieties with low levels of these harmful substances have a mutation in the VC1 gene, offering a potential pathway to breeding safer faba bean cultivars.
Vicia faba L, is a globally important grain legume whose main centers of diversity are the Fertile Crescent and Mediterranean basin. Because of its small number (six) of exceptionally large and easily observed chromosomes it became a model species for plant cytogenetics the 70s and 80s. It is somewhat ironic therefore, that the emergence of more genomically tractable model plant species such as Arabidopsis and Medicago coincided with a marked decline in genome research on the formerly favored plant cytogenetic model.
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