ReviewFrontiers in nutrition2021
Biofortification of Cereals and Pulses Using New Breeding Techniques: Current and Future Perspectives.
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- Advances in breeding for enhanced iron and zinc concentrations in common bean in eastern Africa.Journal of experimental botany · 2025Review
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- Biofortification of Triticum species: a stepping stone to combat malnutrition.BMC plant biology · 2024Review
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- Historical shifting in grain mineral density of landmark rice and wheat cultivars released over the past 50 years in India.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The Selection of the Optimal Impregnation Conditions of Vegetable Matrices with Iodine.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Improving nutrition through biofortification-A systematic review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Review
- Recent advances of γ-aminobutyric acid: Physiological and immunity function, enrichment, and metabolic pathway.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Review
- Mineral Biofortification and Growth Stimulation of Lentil Plants Inoculated withMicroorganisms · 2021Article
- CRISPR-Cas-Led Revolution in Diagnosis and Management of Emerging Plant Viruses: New Avenues Toward Food and Nutritional Security.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Review
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Abstract
Cereals and pulses are consumed as a staple food in low-income countries for the fulfillment of daily dietary requirements and as a source of micronutrients. However, they are failing to offer balanced nutrition due to deficiencies of some essential compounds, macronutrients, and micronutrients, i.e., cereals are deficient in iron, zinc, some essential amino acids, and quality proteins. Meanwhile, the pulses are rich in anti-nutrient compounds that restrict the bioavailability of micronutrients. As a result, the population is suffering from malnutrition and resultantly different diseases, i.e., anemia, beriberi, pellagra, night blindness, rickets, and scurvy are common in the society. These facts highlight the need for the biofortification of cereals and pulses for the provision of balanced diets to masses and reduction of malnutrition. Biofortification of crops may be achieved through conventional approaches or new breeding techniques (NBTs). Conventional approaches for biofortification cover mineral fertilization through foliar or soil application, microbe-mediated enhanced uptake of nutrients, and conventional crossing of plants to obtain the desired combination of genes for balanced nutrient uptake and bioavailability. Whereas, NBTs rely on gene silencing, gene editing, overexpression, and gene transfer from other species for the acquisition of balanced nutritional profiles in mutant plants. Thus, we have highlighted the significance of conventional and NBTs for the biofortification of cereals and pulses. Current and future perspectives and opportunities are also discussed. Further, the regulatory aspects of newly developed biofortified transgenic and/or non-transgenic crop varieties
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