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Wheat is the most widely grown cereal grain, occupying a significant portion of the total cultivated land. As drought is the major environmental stressor affecting crop production, yield maintenance under water deficit conditions appears as a highly desirable phenotype for crop improvement. The HaHB4 (Helianthus annuus homeobox 4) gene from sunflower encodes for a transcription factor involved in tolerance to environmental stress. The introduction of HaHB4 in wheat led to the development of event IND-ØØ412-7 (HB4® wheat), which displayed higher yield in production environments of low productivity potential. Compositional analysis of IND-ØØ412-7 wheat, including 41 nutrients and 2 anti-nutrients for grain and 10 nutrients in forage, was performed. Results of these studies indicated that IND-ØØ412-7 is compositionally equivalent to non-transgenic wheat.
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The authors would like to thank the Bioceres/INDEAR Agronomy group for the generation and preparation of the samples used in this study, and Melacrom laboratory for conducting the analytical procedures. We thank Dr. Raquel Chan for reviewing this manuscript and making very useful suggestions. This work was partially supported by Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva, Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica, ANR 800 249/10.
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This work was partially supported by Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva, Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica, ANR 800 249/10.
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Ayala, F., Fedrigo, G.V., Burachik, M. et al. Compositional equivalence of event IND-ØØ412-7 to non-transgenic wheat. Transgenic Res 28, 165–176 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11248-019-00111-y
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