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] 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 …

Microbial biofortification: a green technology through plant growth promoting microorganisms

A Khan, J Singh, VK Upadhayay, AV Singh… - … green technologies for …, 2019 - Springer
The hidden hunger or malnutrition is considered to be the most dignified global challenge to
human kind. Malnutrition afflicts approximately more than one billion of world's population in …

Microbe-mediated biofortification for micronutrients: present status and future challenges

T Kaur, KL Rana, D Kour, I Sheikh, N Yadav… - New and future …, 2020 - Elsevier
Genetically varying, wild, traditional, or ancient food crops were nutritional-rich compounds
such as micronutrients. But, nowadays, level of micronutrients has been declined and even …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Biofortified crops generated by breeding, agronomy, and transgenic approaches are improving lives of millions of people around the world

M Garg, N Sharma, S Sharma, P Kapoor… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Biofortification is an upcoming, promising, cost-effective, and sustainable technique of
delivering micronutrients to a population that has limited access to diverse diets and other …

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Plant nutrient dynamics: a growing appreciation for the roles of micronutrients

S Mandal, SK Gupta, M Ghorai, MT Patil… - Plant Growth …, 2023 - Springer
Micronutrients are essential for plant growth and play a key role in crop nutrition.
Micronutrients such as zinc (Zn), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), and manganese (Mn) are necessary …

[HTML][HTML] Agronomic biofortification with Se, Zn, and Fe: An effective strategy to enhance crop nutritional quality and stress defense—A review

J Szerement, A Szatanik-Kloc, J Mokrzycki… - Journal of Soil Science …, 2022 - Springer
Human micronutrient deficiencies are a widespread problem worldwide and mainly concern
people whose diet (mainly of plant origin) consists of insufficient amounts of critical vitamins …

[HTML][HTML] Agronomic biofortification of food crops: An emerging opportunity for global food and nutritional security

AK Bhardwaj, S Chejara, K Malik, R Kumar… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Fortification of food with mineral micronutrients and micronutrient supplementation occupied
the center stage during the two-year-long Corona Pandemic, highlighting the urgent need to …

[PDF][PDF] Application of bio-fortification through plant breeding to improve the value of staple crops

T Mulualem - Biomedicine and Biotechnology, 2015 - academia.edu
Mineral deficiency is one of the main global challenges to human health for people who live
especially in developing world. It is known as 'Hidden hunger', results in poor growth and …