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Heliyon. 2019 Feb 08;5(2):e01215. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01215. eCollection 2019 Feb.

Starch quality traits of improved provitamin A cassava (.

Heliyon

Evans Atwijukire, Joseph Ffuna Hawumba, Yona Baguma, Enoch Wembabazi, Williams Esuma, Robert Sezi Kawuki, Ephraim Nuwamanya

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biochemistry and Sports Science, College of Natural Sciences, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda.
  2. National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO), National Crops Resources Research Institute, 9 Km Gayaza-Zirobwe Road, P.O. Box 7084, Kampala, Uganda.
  3. National Agricultural Research Organization, Secretariat, Plot 3, Lugard Avenue, P.O. Box 295, Entebbe, Uganda.

PMID: 30788444 PMCID: PMC6369266 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01215

Abstract

Provitamin A cassava clones were analysed for starch yield and critical starch quality attributes, to understand possible applications in the food industry. Total carotenoids content in the test clones ranged from 0.03-11.94 μg g

Keywords: Biochemistry; Food analysis; Nutrition

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