Ling Jiang, Xiaofeng Yang, Xiewang Gao, Hui Yang, Shumei Ma, Shan Huang, Jianyu Zhu, Hong Zhou, Xiaohong Li, Xiaoyan Gu, Hongming Zhou, Zeya Liang, Antong Yang, Yong Huang, Mu Xiao
The color of the seed coat has great diversity and is regarded as a biomarker of metabolic variations. Here we isolated a soybean variant (BLK) from a population of recombinant inbred lines with a black seed coat, while its sibling plants have yellow seed coats (YL). The BLK and YL plants showed no obvious differences in vegetative growth and seed weight. However, the BLK seeds had higher anthocyanins and flavonoids level and showed tolerance to various abiotic stresses including herbicide, oxidation, salt, and alkalinity during germination...
February 1, 2024: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry