Nitrogen and water application differentially influence nutritional value and mineral content in grains of a genetically diverse sorghum germplasm collection
Mehmet Bedir, Muhammad Tanveer Altaf, Waqas Liaqat, Gönül Cömertpay, Christian Hermans, Volkan Çatalkaya, Nergiz Çoban, İbrahim Cerit, Celaleddin Barutçular, Tolga Karaköy, Andres Morales, Muhammad Azhar Nadeem, Recep Irfan Nazlı, Ephrem Habyarimana, Ahmad Alsaleh, Sajid Fiaz, Pablo Federico Cavagnaro, Faheem Shehzad Baloch · 2026
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Mehmet Bedir and colleagues published a 2026 field study of how nitrogen and water scarcity change the nutritional value of sorghum grain across a diverse collection of 124 varieties. Two years of trials compared full feeding and watering with nitrogen restriction alone and with combined nitrogen and water restriction. Fifteen traits were measured, spanning protein, antioxidants, phenolics, and ten minerals in the grain.
Restriction hurt most traits. Many values fell by a tenth to a half under nitrogen shortage and by up to nearly three-fifths under the double shortage, with zinc, magnesium, and copper among the hardest hit. Antioxidant capacity and phenolics moved the other way, rising sharply under stress, and the two tracked each other closely, identifying phenolics as the engine of the grain's antioxidant power. Breeding for nutrition, the authors note, must reckon with how farms actually feed and water the crop.
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| CREATOR | Mehmet Bedir, Muhammad Tanveer Altaf, Waqas Liaqat, Gönül Cömertpay, Christian Hermans, Volkan Çatalkaya, Nergiz Çoban, İbrahim Cerit, Celaleddin Barutçular, Tolga Karaköy, Andres Morales, Muhammad Azhar Nadeem, Recep Irfan Nazlı, Ephrem Habyarimana, Ahmad Alsaleh, Sajid Fiaz, Pablo Federico Cavagnaro, Faheem Shehzad Baloch |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 82640 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |