Managing the Nutrition of Plants and People

Table 2

Studies in which chromosomal loci (QTL) have been identified in crop plants that affect the concentrations of essential mineral elements most commonly lacking in human diets.

Crop species	Tissue	Elements	References
Rice (Oryza sativa)	Grain	Fe	Gregorio et al. [131]
	Grain	Fe, Zn, Mn	Stangoulis et al. [132]
	Grain	Fe, Zn, Mn, Cu, Ca	Lu et al. [133]
	Grain	Fe, Zn, Mn, Cu, Ca, Mg	Garcia-Oliveira et al. [134]
	Grain	Fe, Zn, Mn, Cu, Mg, Se	Norton et al. [135]
	Grain	Zn	Zhang et al. [136]
Wheat (Triticum spp.)	Grain	Fe, Zn, Mn	Distelfeld et al. [137]
	Grain	Zn	Shi et al. [138]
	Grain	Fe, Zn	Genc et al. [139]
	Grain	Fe, Zn, Mn, Cu, Ca, Mg	Peleg et al. [140]
Barley (Hordeum vulgare)	Grain	Zn	Lonergan et al. [141]
	Grain	Zn	Sadeghzadeh et al. [142]
Maize (Zea mays)	Kernel	Fe	Lung’aho et al. [143]
	Kernel	Fe, Zn, Mg	Šimić et al. [144]
Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)	Seed	Fe, Zn	Beebe et al. [145]
	Seed	Fe, Zn, Ca	Guzmán-Maldonado et al. [146]
	Seed	Zn	Cichy et al. [147]
	Seed	Fe, Zn, Ca	Gelin et al. [148]
	Seed	Fe, Zn	Blair et al. [149]
	Seed	Fe, Zn	Cichy et al. [150]
	Seed	Fe, Zn	Blair et al. [151]
	Seed	Fe, Zn	Blair et al. [152]
Soybean (Glycine max)	Seed	Ca	Zhang et al. [153]
Oilseed Rape (Brassica napus)	Seed	Fe, Zn, Mn, Cu, Ca, Mg	Ding et al. [154]
Brassica oleracea	Leaf	Ca, Mg	Broadley et al. [155]
	Leaf	Zn	Broadley et al. [156]
Brassica rapa	Leaf	Fe, Zn, Mn, Mg	Wu et al. [157]
	Leaf	Ca, Mg	Broadley et al. [158]
Potato (Solanum tuberosum)	Tuber	Fe, Zn, Cu, Ca, Mg	Subramanian [159]