Biofortification of cereals to overcome hidden hunger

N Rawat, K Neelam, VK Tiwari, HS Dhaliwal - Plant Breeding, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
More than 60% of the world population suffers from iron deficiency, and over 30% of the
global population has zinc deficiency. Micronutrient deficiency leads to compromised health …

Biofortification: Introduction, approaches, limitations, and challenges

U Singh, CS Praharaj, SK Chaturvedi… - Biofortification of food crops, 2016 - Springer
Micronutrient malnutrition is known to affect more than half of the world's population and
considered to be among the most serious global challenges to humankind. Modern plant …

Biofortification-promising approach to increasing the content of iron and zinc in staple food crops

ML García-Bañuelos, JP Sida-Arreola… - Journal of …, 2014 - agro.icm.edu.pl
Micronutrient deficiencies have increased over recent decades due to the general
depreciation of the quality of poor people's diet, both in developed and developing …

[HTML][HTML] Biofortification—A frontier novel approach to enrich micronutrients in field crops to encounter the nutritional security

SS Dhaliwal, V Sharma, AK Shukla, V Verma, M Kaur… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Globally, many developing countries are facing silent epidemics of nutritional deficiencies in
human beings and animals. The lack of diversity in diet, ie, cereal-based crops deficient in …

Biofortification of vegetables

MK Lal, A Kumar, HB Kardile, P Raigond… - Advances in agri-food …, 2020 - Springer
In the past few decades, the major concern on this planet was food security. After making a
successful lead in food security now, the developing nations are focusing on nutritional …

Bio-fortification of minerals in crops: current scenario and future prospects for sustainable agriculture and human health

DK Jaiswal, R Krishna, GK Chouhan… - Plant Growth …, 2022 - Springer
Minerals are the key factor determining human beings' optimum growth and development.
The deficiencies of minerals and vitamins hinder the human normal growth and …

[HTML][HTML] Crop biofortification for iron (Fe), zinc (Zn) and vitamin A with transgenic approaches

S Kumar, A Palve, C Joshi, RK Srivastava - Heliyon, 2019 - cell.com
Micronutrient malnutrition is an important issue in the developing countries especially in
Asia and Africa where millions of school-going children and pregnant women are affected …

[HTML][HTML] Biofortification of staple crops to alleviate human malnutrition: contributions and potential in developing countries

A Kiran, A Wakeel, K Mahmood, R Mubaraka, Hafsa… - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
Micronutrient malnutrition is a global health challenge affecting almost half of the global
population, causing poor physical and mental development of children and a wide range of …

Critical evaluation of strategies for mineral fortification of staple food crops

S Gómez-Galera, E Rojas, D Sudhakar, C Zhu… - Transgenic …, 2010 - Springer
Staple food crops, in particular cereal grains, are poor sources of key mineral nutrients. As a
result, the world's poorest people, generally those subsisting on a monotonous cereal diet …

Biofortifying crops with essential mineral elements

PJ White, MR Broadley - Trends in plant science, 2005 - cell.com
Humans require more than 22 mineral elements, which can all be supplied by an
appropriate diet. However, the diets of populations subsisting on cereals, or inhabiting …