(Colorado State University. Libraries, 2009) Al-Daej, Mohammed Ibrahim, author; Hughes, Harrison G., advisor
Potatoes are the fourth most important food crop by consumption in the world. Since antioxidants have been identified as having health benefits related to reducing free radicals, there is interest in increasing the levels of antioxidants in new potato cultivars. The objectives of this study were to: (1) Determine the total phenolics content (TPC) of progenies of 15 families derived from crosses of clones grown in the San Luis Valley (SLV), Colorado (CO). (2) Determine if pigment level as measured by MiniScan® XE Plus could be used as a method to identify high TPC tubers. (3) Study the correlation between TPC of all tubers and families' means harvested from the field with corresponding families' means and tubers harvested from the greenhouse (GH).
