{"id":3613,"date":"2014-12-01T11:31:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T16:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2014-12-01T11:31:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T16:31:56","slug":"fighting-malnutrition-with-stronger-chickpeas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/fighting-malnutrition-with-stronger-chickpeas\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting malnutrition with \u2018stronger\u2019 chickpeas<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have determined which genetic variations influence the iron and zinc concentrations in chickpea seeds, a finding that could help fight malnutrition in developing countries. The study examined 94 varieties of chickpea and found eight\u00a0genetic variations &#8211; known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs &#8211; that are associated with the iron and zinc concentration.<\/p>\n<p>Breeding programs can focus on these genetic variations to produce more nutritious varieties of chickpea for the estimated two\u00a0billion people are deficient in micronutrients like iron or zinc.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcresearchpress.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1139\/gen-2014-0108#.VHyXixaqFD2\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Genome\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>December 1<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Bunyamin Tar&#8217;an, University of Saskatchewan,\u00a0Saskatchewan<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have determined which genetic variations influence the iron and zinc concentrations in chickpea seeds, a finding that could help fight malnutrition in developing countries. The study examined 94 varieties of chickpea and found eight\u00a0genetic variations &#8211; known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs &#8211; that are associated with the iron and zinc concentration. Breeding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[101,170,113,917,909,51,476,1810],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-agriculture","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-evolution","tag-genetics","tag-health","tag-public-health","tag-saskatchewan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-Wh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3614,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}