Dataset for: Standard Evaluation Trial for micronutrient content

Inheritance study using low and high concentration parents suggested that vitamin C concentration in tubers is highly heritable and hence increased levels could rapidly be achieved through selection of high concentration parents Standard evaluation trials assessed iron, zinc and vitamin C contents in tuber samples from advanced breeding clones to document their nutritional values. Healthy and representative tubers with regard to tuber size of each clone are picked up from plots of two replications of 10 hill plots from trials conducted in pathogen and pest protected fields and grown following local procedures.

Iron and Zinc content are determined by inductively coupled plasma–optical emission spectrophotometry (ICP) and concentrations expressed in mg/kg, dry weight (DW), while vitamin C is quantified by the spectrophotometric method and expressed in mg/100 g, fresh weight (FW).