Climatic variability has been acquiring an extensive consideration due to its widespread
ability to impact food production and livelihoods. Climate change has the potential to …

Nutrient‐efficient crops are a solution to the two grand challenges of modern agriculture:
improving food security while reducing environmental impacts. The primary challenges are …

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 …

Zinc (Zn) still represents an important health problem in developing countries, caused
mainly by inadequate dietary intake. A large consumption of cereal‐based foods with small …

Background As minerals have diverse functionalities and potentials in the body's
metabolism and homeostasis, deficiency of these bioactive constituents can result in an …

Rapid population growth, climate change, intensive monoculture farming, and resource
depletion are among the challenges that threaten the increasingly vulnerable global agri …

Arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury are toxic elements that are almost ubiquitously present
at low levels in the environment because of anthropogenic influences. Dietary intake of plant …

Micronutrient malnutrition is a global health issue and needs immediate attention. Over two
billion people across the globe suffer from micronutrient malnutrition. The widespread zinc …

Maize (Zea mays), also called corn, is believed to have originated in central Mexico 7000
years ago from a wild grass, and Native Americans transformed maize into a better source of …

Since its first discovery in an Iranian male in 1961, zinc deficiency in humans is now known
to be an important malnutrition problem world-wide. It is more prevalent in areas of high …