Phytonutrients of M4 moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam.) influenced by ethyl methane sulphonate

The objective of the current study is to identify viable moringa mutants to meet food and nutritional security.Therefore, without compromising nutrition or quality, this investigation was conducted using varying dosages (0.10%, 0.15%, 0.20%) of ethyl methane sulphonate (EMS), followed by selection from M 1 to M 4 generation based on yield.To verify the effectiveness of the chosen mutant, nutritional and quality analysis were conducted on the M 4 generation plants.The results showed that the mutants 35-1-68-43 and 35-1-68-39 had the highest levels of vitamin A (9.49 mg/100 g) and protein content (39.0 mg/100 g).The mutant 35-1-68-35 had the highest crude fibre (10.35%), vitamin C (216.67 mg/100 g), chlorophyll (48.1) and carbon content (48.18%).The highest calcium (2.33 mg/100 g) and nitrogen concentration (6.35%) was found in the mutant 35-1-68-07.The highest iron content (0.87 mg/100 g) was found in the mutant 35-1-68-49.These mutants are all the result of 0.15% of EMS treatment.This suggests that the EMS treatment may bring favourable modifications in moringa.Because of this, these mutants have the potential to be introduced as a variety and can be passed on to subsequent generations for assessment of their performance stability to combat food and nutritional security.