Phenotypic recurrent selection to improve protein quality in non-opaque maize populations
Maize (Zea mays L.) protein is considered to be of low quality due to low levels of the g5210t-p90 essential lysine and tryptophan amino acids.An alternative to solve this problem is to use the opaque-2 gene, which improves the level of these amino acids, but has negative pleiotropic effects on agronomic characters.A phenotypic recurrent selection