Comparative Nutritional Assessment and Metabolomics of a WRKY Rice Mutant with Enhanced Germination Rates

Rice is the primary staple food for half world’s population. Climate change challenges and insecurity supports need rice with agronomically advantageous traits. We report on a transposon insertional mutant enhanced germination rates. This trait growth in limited water regions to reduce yield constraints caused by weed bird competition. Evaluations of vital nutritional components, compositional analysis, comparative metabolomics threshed grain samples are performed, as these assays those used assess safety foods from genetically modified crops. Compared wild type (cv. Nipponbare), oswrky71 grains have similar size, shape, amount crude fiber, fat, ash content but higher protein. Mineral analyses reveal contents phosphorus zinc lower calcium, potassium, sodium, manganese mutant. Analysis B vitamins reveals significantly riboflavin concentrations choline chloride, calcium pantothenate, thiamine. In addition, untargeted identify approximately 50 metabolites whose levels differed between its type. Physical traits parameters analyzed mostly within range or very close being considered safe consumption International Life Sciences Institute Crop Composition Database. Further agronomic evaluation cooked sensory properties assessment needed before positioning this human consumption.