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The polyphenol content in pearl barley, which is highly correlated to a browning reaction after heat treatment, was investigated using 1,347 cultivated barley varieties (H. vulgare) and two wild accessions (H. vulgare subsp. spontaneum) collected from different areas of the world. The polyphenol content in the cultivated barley shows a wide variation ranging from 0.19 to 0.75 mg/g with a nearly normal frequency distribution. The polyphenol content in the hulless varieties from Japan and Korea was low. On the other hand, the polyphenol content in wild barley was about two times higher than the average value recorded in cultivated barley. Based on HPLC analysis, five lowest-polyphenol content local varieties do not represent proanthocyanidin-free mutants.
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Fujita, M., Takeda, K., Kohyama, N. et al. Genotypic variation in polyphenol content of barley grain. Euphytica 124, 55–58 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015658305562
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