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 …

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 …

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Plant nutrient dynamics: a growing appreciation for the roles of micronutrients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

Current status and potential of biofortification to enhance crop nutritional quality: an overview

S Sheoran, S Kumar, V Ramtekey, P Kar, RS Meena… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Around 2 billion people are suffering from chronic malnutrition or “hidden hunger”, which is
the result of many diseases and disorders, including cognitive degeneration, stunting …

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 …

Biofortification of crops for reducing malnutrition

GS Khush, S Lee, JI Cho, JS Jeon - Plant biotechnology reports, 2012 - Springer
Micronutrient deficiencies affect approximately 3 billion people worldwide. Malnutrition
hinders the development of human potential and social and economic development in …

Assessment of biofortification approaches used to improve micronutrient-dense plants that are a sustainable solution to combat hidden hunger

E Koç, B Karayiğit - Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2022 - Springer
Malnutrition causes diseases, immune system disorders, deterioration in physical growth,
mental development, and learning capacity worldwide. Micronutrient deficiency, known as …

Transgenic crops for biofortification

KA Malik, A Maqbool - Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Global food security concerns impact greatly on the United Nation's Sustainable
Development Goals, which are heavily focused on eradicating hunger by 2030. The Global …

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 …

Benefits and limitations of non-transgenic micronutrient biofortification approaches

E Marques, HM Darby, J Kraft - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Increasing the amount of micronutrients in diets across the world is crucial to improving
world health. Numerous methods can accomplish this such as the biofortification of food …