Additional file 3: Figure S1. of Quantitative trait loci associated with different polar metabolites in perennial ryegrass - providing scope for breeding towards increasing certain polar metabolites

Principal component analysis (PCA) based on the correlation matrix of 26 polar metabolites of parents and F1 samples of the Lolium mapping population. Red = P_m maternal line; blue = P_f paternal line; black = F1. (PDF 9 kb

Impact of Conventional and Integrated Management Systems on the Water-Soluble Vitamin Content in Potatoes, Field Beans, and Cereals

The reduction of the environmental footprint of crop production without compromising crop yield and their nutritional value is a key goal for improving the sustainability of agriculture. In 2009, the Balruddery Farm Platform was established at The James Hutton Institute as a long-term experimental platform for cross-disciplinary research of crops using two agricultural ecosystems. Crops representative of UK agriculture were grown under conventional and integrated management systems and analyzed for their water-soluble vitamin content. Integrated management, when compared with the conventional system, had only minor effects on water-soluble vitamin content, where significantly higher differences were seen for the conventional management practice on the levels of thiamine in field beans (<i>p</i> < 0.01), Spring barley (<i>p</i> < 0.05), and Winter wheat (<i>p</i> < 0.05), and for nicotinic acid in Spring barley (<i>p</i> < 0.05). However, for all crops, variety and year differences were of greater importance. These results indicate that the integrated management system described in this study does not significantly affect the water-soluble vitamin content of the crops analyzed here