Anthocyanin bio-fortified colored wheat: Nutritional and functional characterization

<div><p>Colored wheat, rich in anthocyanins, has created interest among the breeders and baking industry. This study was aimed at understanding the nutritional and product making potential of our advanced, high yielding and regionally adapted colored wheat lines. Our results indicated that our advanced colored wheat lines exhibited higher anthocyanin content and antioxidant activity than donor wheat lines and it varied in the order of white</p></div

Estimation of anti-inflammatory effect of colored wheat lines on (A) NO level (B) LPS-induced pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-1β and (C) pro-inflammatory cytokine TNF-α level.

<p>Data was expressed as % of control and represents mean ± SD of 6 replicates. Same letters depict they are not significantly different (p<0.05).</p

Nutritional components of color and white wheat lines.

<p>W-white wheat, BD- Blue donor, BA-blue advanced wheat, PA-purple advanced wheat, BLD-black donor wheat, BLA-black advanced wheat.</p

Principal component analysis (PCA) plots for phytochemicals and antioxidant activity.

<p><b>(A)</b> Projection of variables (B) PCA score plots for wheat lines W-white wheat, BD- Blue donor, BA-blue advanced wheat, PD-purple donor wheat, PA-purple advanced wheat, BLD-black donor wheat, BLA-black advanced wheat.</p

Phytochemicals content and antioxidant activity of colored wheat lines relative to white wheat.

<p>Phytochemicals content and antioxidant activity of colored wheat lines relative to white wheat.</p

Anthocyanin bio-fortified colored wheat: Nutritional and functional characterization

<div><p>Colored wheat, rich in anthocyanins, has created interest among the breeders and baking industry. This study was aimed at understanding the nutritional and product making potential of our advanced, high yielding and regionally adapted colored wheat lines. Our results indicated that our advanced colored wheat lines exhibited higher anthocyanin content and antioxidant activity than donor wheat lines and it varied in the order of white</p></div

Principal component analysis based on nutritional components.

<p>(A) Projection of 17 variables tested on the plane formed by PC1 and PC2 (B) The scatter plot reports the projection of 6 wheat lines. Advanced wheat lines grouped with white wheat line.</p

Cell viability evaluation by using MTT assay.

<p>Different letters signify significant differences (p< 0.05).</p