Underutilized crops with enhanced nutrition and health value could be reintroduced to the
diet as a promising intervention to meet global food and nutrition challenges. Considering …

Crop biofortification has significantly progressed in the last few decades. The first
biofortification success was quality protein maize, leading to double the amount of the …

Soils deficient in essential micro-nutrients produce nutritionally starved crops that do not
fulfill human nutritional requirements. This is getting serious since progressively increasing …

“Hidden hunger”, the deficiency of important mineral micronutrients, affects more than 2
billion people globally. Adolescence is unquestionably a period of nutritional risk, given the …

Legume-based cropping systems are regaining interest due to the environmental services
and the variety of food and feed uses they provide, this having special interest in …

Common bean is an ancient grain legume crop that has been cultivated in various parts of
the world by humankind for centuries. The seeds of this crop contain valuable source of …

A decline in common bean production has been ascribed to climate change. The adoption of
improved beans aims to increase productivity, profitability, and consumption, thus reducing …

Low Zn availability in soils is a problem in many parts of the world, with tremendous
consequences for food and feed production because Zn deficiency affects the yield and …

Legumes Biofortification Muhammad Azhar Nadeem· Faheem Shehzad Baloch· Sajid Fiaz·
Muhammad Aasim· Ephrem Habyarimana· Osman Sönmez· Nusret Zencirci Editors Legumes …

There are about two billion people suffered malnourished because of the failing global food
system, historical emphasis on crop yield, notably lacking in Fe and Zn. Breeding biofortified …