ArticleGenes & nutrition2013
The contribution of transgenic plants to better health through improved nutrition: opportunities and constraints.
Article in Genes & nutrition, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Agronomic biofortification of food crops: An emerging opportunity for global food and nutritional security.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Pooled it
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- Agronomic biofortification in crops with Zn: the zinc-iron interaction dilemma.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Zinc-solubilizing bacterial consortia: a promising approach for zinc biofortification of crops.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
- Empowering vital fruit crops with enhanced nutritional contents.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Review
- Strategies and bibliometric analysis of legumes biofortification to address malnutrition.Planta · 2024Review
- A versatileFrontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- CRISPR-Based Genome Editing for Nutrient Enrichment in Crops: A Promising Approach Toward Global Food Security.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Review
- Review
- Potato biofortification: an effective way to fight global hidden hunger.Physiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology · 2021Review
- Fruit crops in the era of genome editing: closing the regulatory gap.Plant cell reports · 2021Review
- Fighting Iron-Deficiency Anemia: Innovations in Food Fortificants and Biofortification Strategies.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Biofortification of Pulse Crops: Status and Future Perspectives.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Biofortified Crops Generated by Breeding, Agronomy, and Transgenic Approaches Are Improving Lives of Millions of People around the World.Frontiers in nutrition · 2018Review
- Applications of New Breeding Technologies for Potato Improvement.Frontiers in plant science · 2018Review
- Guidance for the risk assessment of the presence at low level of genetically modified plant material in imported food and feed under Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2017Article
- Phytosiderophores determine thresholds for iron and zinc accumulation in biofortified rice endosperm while inhibiting the accumulation of cadmium.Journal of experimental botany · 2017Article
- The expression of heterologous Fe (III) phytosiderophore transporter HvYS1 in rice increases Fe uptake, translocation and seed loading and excludes heavy metals by selective Fe transport.Plant biotechnology journal · 2017Article
- Transgenic expression of phytase in wheat endosperm increases bioavailability of iron and zinc in grains.Transgenic research · 2017Article
- New Biotechnological Tools for the Genetic Improvement of Major Woody Fruit Species.Frontiers in plant science · 2017Review
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Abstract
Malnutrition is a prevalent and entrenched global socioeconomic challenge that reflects the combined impact of poverty, poor access to food, inefficient food distribution infrastructure, and an over-reliance on subsistence mono-agriculture. The dependence on staple cereals lacking many essential nutrients means that malnutrition is endemic in developing countries. Most individuals lack diverse diets and are therefore exposed to nutrient deficiencies. Plant biotechnology could play a major role in combating malnutrition through the engineering of nutritionally enhanced crops. In this article, we discuss different approaches that can enhance the nutritional content of staple crops by genetic engineering (GE) as well as the functionality and safety assessments required before nutritionally enhanced GE crops can be deployed in the field. We also consider major constraints that hinder the adoption of GE technology at different levels and suggest policies that could be adopted to accelerate the deployment of nutritionally enhanced GE crops within a multicomponent strategy to combat malnutrition.
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