Environmental and geographic study of betanin accumulation in promising red beet accessions from the VIR collection
Background. Table beet (Beta vulgaris L.) is a source of ‘betanin’, a natural food dye known as food additive E-162. The VIR collection holds a large diversity of red beet accessions. It is the base for obtaining source material to breed cultivars with high betanin content.Materials and methods. In...
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N.I. Vavilov All-Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources
2020-01-01
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| Series: | Труды по прикладной ботанике, генетике и селекции |
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| Online Access: | https://elpub.vir.nw.ru/jour/article/view/457 |