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SUBMITTER: Olson ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4961408 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Olson Mark E ME Sankaran Renuka P RP Fahey Jed W JW Grusak Michael A MA Odee David D Nouman Wasif W
PloS one 20160726 7
The moringa tree Moringa oleifera is a fast-growing, drought-resistant tree cultivated across the lowland dry tropics worldwide for its nutritious leaves. Despite its nutritious reputation, there has been no systematic survey of the variation in leaf nutritional quality across M. oleifera grown worldwide, or of the other species of the genus. To guide informed use of moringa, we surveyed protein, macro-, and micro- nutrients across 67 common garden samples of 12 Moringa taxa, including 23 sample ...[more]