Crop Biofortification

Auteur

Sajid Fiaz, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Haripur, Pakistan. His research focuses on the development of high-quality rice through genome editing, as well as multi-omics approahces for improving plant traits. Adnan Noor Shah, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Engineering, Khawja Fareed University of Engineering and Information Technology, Punjab, Pakistan. He specializes in nitrogen metabolism and efficient utilization of nitrogen fertilizers by crop plants, and serves as editor for multiple leading plant science and agronomy journals. Javed Iqbal, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Bacha Khan University, Charsadda, Pakistan. His resaerch group focuses on developing eco-friendly and sustainable avanues for synthesizing novel functional nanomaterials from medicinal plants. Abdul Qayyum, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Agronomy, University of Haripur, Pakistan. His research focuses on plant physiology, the improvement of agronomic traits through selection, plant nutrition, and related subjects.

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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. Crops 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 spply. Crops Biofortification readers will also find: Presentation of recent advances in omics, particularly metabolomics, which can decipher potential changes in plants caused by biofortificationDetailed discussion of methods for increasing the nutritional content of edible plants to address specific nutritional deficienciesContributions towards a road map for increasing global food production by 70% before the year 2050 Crops 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.

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Table of Contents

1. Biofortification of Food Grains in Relation to Food Security
2. Golden Rice project and its impact on global nutritional security
3. Biofortification of cereals and Pulses using new-breeding techniques
4. Current Challenges and Recent Advancements in Adoption of Omics to Enhance Biofortificatio
5. Current Challenges and Recent Advancements in the Adoption of Omics to Enhance Biofortification
6. Role of Nanoparticles in Improving Biofortification: An Overview
7. Role of Seed Priming in Biofortification
8. Selenium Biofortification in Wheat: A Way Forward towards Nutritional Security
9. Scope And Research Perspective Of Lithium Biofortification In Crop Plants
10. Global action plan for agricultural diversification for achieving zero hunger
11. Targeting Tissue Specific Zinc Acquisition in Cereal
12. Combating Mineral Malnutrition through Iron Bio-fortification in cereal Crops
13. Selenium bio-fortification in horticultural crops
14. Magnesium Mysteries Unveiled: Insights into its Impact on Plants and Human Health and Biofortification Strategies to Enhance Magnesium Content in CerealCrops
15. Combating Fe Bio-fortification under Heavy Metal Pollution
16. Biofortification in Vegetables: Enhancing Nutritional Value for Improved Human Health
17. Genetic engineering for crops bio-fortification
18. Development of Biofortified Crops through Marker-Assisted Selection
19. Agronomic Perspective of Improving Iodine Bio-fortification
20. Applications of Nanoparticles in Biofortification of Crops: Amplifying Nutritional Quality
21. Zinc biofortification in rice -From conventional breeding to biotechnological approaches
22. Modification in Conventional Methods and Modern Plant Breeding Techniques to Enhance Genetic Gain for Future Food Security
23. Biofortification of crops and vegetables to achieve food nutritional security
24. Genetic Diversity and Crop Genome-wide Association Study (GWAS) studies to identify Bio-fortified traits for Micronutrients
25. Modification of conventional methods and modern plant breeding techniques to enhance genetic gain for future food security
26. Nano-fertilizers for growing fortified crops; a need of the day