Develop more nutritious crops to aid in the fight against world hunger with this timely volume
One in nine people worldwide suffer from hunger or food scarcity. Massively increasing food production is one of the most urgent scientific projects in the modern world, particularly as a changing climate places increasing pressure on the global food supply and on sustainable food production processes. Biofortification is a process in which plant breeding, improved agronomic practices, and/or modern biotechnology are employed to increase nutrient density of crops without sacrificing any of their desirable characteristics. It’s an essential tool in the global fight against hunger.
Crop Biofortification offers an up-to-the-minute overview of this essential subject and its recent advances. It covers all the latest methodologies and techniques deployed in biofortification, as well as surveying plant responses to genetically induced biofortification and the effect of climate change on biofortified crops. Designed to allow for the application of these techniques at the field level, it’s a significant contribution towards the search for a sustainable global food supply.
Crop Biofortification readers will also find:
- Presentation of recent advances in omics, particularly metabolomics, which can decipher potential changes in plants caused by biofortification
- Detailed discussion of methods for increasing the nutritional content of edible plants to address specific nutritional deficiencies
- Contributions towards a road map for increasing global food production by 70% before the year 2050
Crop Biofortification is ideal for researchers, policymakers, and professionals interested in the potential biofortification of crop plants, as well as graduate and advanced undergraduate students in agronomy, plant physiology, plant breeding and genetics, agricultural biotechnology, and related fields.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
- Biofortification of Food Grains in Relation to Food Security
- Golden Rice project and its impact on global nutritional security
- Biofortification of cereals and Pulses using new-breeding techniques
- Current Challenges and Recent Advancements in Adoption of Omics to Enhance Biofortificatio
- Current Challenges and Recent Advancements in the Adoption of Omics to Enhance Biofortification
- Role of Nanoparticles in Improving Biofortification: An Overview
- Role of Seed Priming in Biofortification
- Selenium Biofortification in Wheat: A Way Forward towards Nutritional Security
- Scope And Research Perspective Of Lithium Biofortification In Crop Plants
- Global action plan for agricultural diversification for achieving zero hunger
- Targeting Tissue Specific Zinc Acquisition in Cereal
- Combating Mineral Malnutrition through Iron Bio-fortification in cereal Crops
- Selenium bio-fortification in horticultural crops
- Magnesium Mysteries Unveiled: Insights into its Impact on Plants and Human Health and Biofortification Strategies to Enhance Magnesium Content in CerealCrops
- Combating Fe Bio-fortification under Heavy Metal Pollution
- Biofortification in Vegetables: Enhancing Nutritional Value for Improved Human Health
- Genetic engineering for crops bio-fortification
- Development of Biofortified Crops through Marker-Assisted Selection
- Agronomic Perspective of Improving Iodine Bio-fortification
- Applications of Nanoparticles in Biofortification of Crops: Amplifying Nutritional Quality
- Zinc biofortification in rice -From conventional breeding to biotechnological approaches
- Modification in Conventional Methods and Modern Plant Breeding Techniques to Enhance Genetic Gain for Future Food Security
- Biofortification of crops and vegetables to achieve food nutritional security
- Genetic Diversity and Crop Genome-wide Association Study (GWAS) studies to identify Bio-fortified traits for Micronutrients
- Modification of conventional methods and modern plant breeding techniques to enhance genetic gain for future food security
- Nano-fertilizers for growing fortified crops; a need of the day
