Elsevier eBooks, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 153 - 177
Published: Jan. 1, 2025
Language: Английский
Frontiers in Nutrition, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 9
Published: Dec. 9, 2022
Nutritious foods are essential for human health and development. However, malnutrition hidden hunger continue to be a challenge globally. In most developing countries, access adequate nutritious food continues challenge. Although is less prevalent in developed countries compared where iron (Fe) zinc (Zn) deficiencies common. The United Nations (UN) 2nd Sustainable Development Goal was set eradicate hunger. Hidden has led numerous cases of infant maternal mortalities, greatly impacted growth, development, cognitive ability, physical working capacity. This influenced several develop interventions that could help combat Interventions such as dietary diversification supplementation being adopted. fortification but mainly biofortification been projected the sustainable solution Plant-based (PBFs) form greater proportion diets certain populations; hence, PBFs relevant combating Agronomic biofortification, plant breeding, transgenic approaches some currently used strategies crops. Crops cereals, legumes, oilseeds, vegetables, fruits have biofortified through all these three strategies. approach sustainable, efficient, rapid, making it suitable programs. Omics technology also introduced improve efficiency approach.
Language: Английский
Citations
72
Frontiers in Microbiology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 13
Published: Feb. 3, 2023
Pulses are an important source of energy and protein, essential amino acids, dietary fibers, minerals, vitamins, play a significant role in addressing global nutritional security. The pulse area, production, average productivity increased from 1961 to 2020 (60 years). usually grown under rainfed, highly unstable, complex production environments, with substantial variability soil environmental factors, high year-to-year output variability, variation moisture. Since the last six decades, there is not much satisfactory improvement yield pulses because their cultivation harsh coupled continuous ignorance farmers governments policy planning. As result, food supplies through remained negligible amounted merely ~1.0% total supply 1.2% vegan system. In this situation, protein-rich still question raised at level make malnutrition-free world. vital component agricultural biological diversity, for tackling climate change, serve as diet vegetarians. can mitigate change by reducing dependence on synthetic fertilizers that artificially introduce nitrogen (N) into soil. demand manufacture chemical emit greenhouse gases (GHGs), overuse harm environment. addition, increasing vegetal protein most agroecosystems has be met stressed rainfed situation. agroecosystem shelter poor people part globe, such Africa, South Asia, Latin America. Nearly, 83% [over 1,260 million hectares (ha)] cultivated land comes agriculture, contributing significantly security supplying over 60% food. areas, limitation natural resources shrinking land, nutrient mining, fertility depletion, declining factor, constantly depleting water availability, decreasing carbon (C) stock, augmented weed menace, ecological instability, reduced system creating more challenging Pulses, being crops marginal semi-marginal soils arid semi-arid climates, require less input cultivation, water, nutrients, tillage, labor, energy. Furthermore, accommodation area reduces groundwater exploitation, C N footprints, agrochemical application cropping systems, ill effects due inherent capacity withstand exhibit phytoremediation properties stand well condition. This article focuses services, human wellbeing, soil, health, economic advanced sustainability. Therefore, study will enhance understanding system-based approach involvement pulses. present highlighted research findings support direction exploring real potential It provide road map producers, researchers, policymakers, government planners working promote them achieve United Nations (UN's) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Language: Английский
Citations
59
Frontiers in Nutrition, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 10
Published: Sept. 14, 2023
Micronutrient deficiency also known as "hidden hunger" refers to a condition that occurs when the body lacks essential vitamins and minerals are required in small amounts for proper growth, development overall health. These deficiencies particularly common developing countries, where lack of access varied nutritious diet makes it difficult people get micronutrients they need. supplementation has been topic interest, especially during Covid-19 pandemic, due its potential role supporting immune function Iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), iodine (I), selenium (Se) humans significant food-related issues worldwide. Biofortification is sustainable strategy developed address micronutrient by increasing levels staple crops widely consumed affected communities. There number agricultural techniques biofortification, including selective breeding have higher specific nutrients, agronomic approach using fertilizers other inputs increase nutrient uptake transgenic approach. The offers temporary but speedy solution while genetic (breeding transgenic) long-term requires time develop nutrient-rich variety.
Language: Английский
Citations
45
Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 14
Published: Jan. 30, 2023
Malnutrition results in enormous socio-economic costs to the individual, their community, and nation’s economy. The evidence suggests an overall negative impact of climate change on agricultural productivity nutritional quality food crops. Producing more with better quality, which is feasible, should be prioritized crop improvement programs. Biofortification refers developing micronutrient -dense cultivars through crossbreeding or genetic engineering. This review provides updates nutrient acquisition, transport, storage plant organs; cross-talk between macro- micronutrients transport signaling; profiling spatial temporal distribution; putative functionally characterized genes/single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated Fe, Zn, β-carotene; global efforts breed nutrient-dense crops map adoption such globally. article also includes overview bioavailability, bioaccessibility, bioactivity nutrients as well molecular basis absorption human. Over 400 minerals (Fe, Zn) provitamin A-rich have been released Global South. Approximately 4.6 million households currently cultivate Zn-rich rice wheat, while ~3 sub-Saharan Africa Latin America benefit from Fe-rich beans, 2.6 people Brazil eat cassava. Furthermore, profiles can improved engineering agronomically acceptable background. development “Golden Rice” dessert bananas subsequent transfer this trait into locally adapted are evident, no significant profile, except for incorporated. A greater understanding may lead diet therapy betterment human health.
Language: Английский
Citations
29
Heliyon, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 10(9), P. e30595 - e30595
Published: May 1, 2024
Language: Английский
Citations
13
Current Plant Biology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 38, P. 100328 - 100328
Published: Feb. 12, 2024
Iron (Fe) deficiency is a pressing global health concern, particularly affecting vulnerable groups like women and children in resource-limited areas. Addressing this challenge requires innovative solutions, biofortified crops, Fe-enriched wheat, can offer sustainable solution to improve nutrition cereal-based diets. While conventional breeding methods have yielded competitive Fe-biofortified wheat varieties across various nations, the imminent challenges securing food nutritional security for future necessitate delicate balance: maintaining genetic progress grain yield while concurrently elevating Fe content. Despite substantial strides elucidating intricacies of homeostasis, there remains knowledge gap, especially context similar crop species. It paramount gain comprehensive understanding hurdles impeding enrichment plant tissues delve into diverse mechanisms governing uptake, translocation, transport, storage within wheat. To surmount these challenges, researchers explored multitude strategies, including mutagenesis, QTL mapping, meta-QTL analysis, GWAS, transgenesis, genome editing. Furthermore, harnessing potential microorganisms, engineered endophytes coupled with genes associated accumulation, emerges as promising pragmatic tool augmenting biofortification This review underscores significant advancements made unravelling genomic aspects accumulation also delineating research directions field. By synergistically deploying multifaceted approaches, scientists hold develop characterized by enhanced content, improved bioavailability, reduced anti-nutritional factors. Such innovations play pivotal role advancing outcomes populations reliant on wheat-based diets, resource-scarce regions.
Language: Английский
Citations
8
New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 66(6), P. 519 - 619
Published: Nov. 8, 2022
Food and feed has been produced from genetically modified (GM) crops for 25 years. It is timely to review whether this technology globally delivered the expected benefits ongoing debate on risks justified. Expected associated with GM include increased crop yields, reduced pesticide insecticide use, carbon dioxide emissions, improved soil structure, nutritive quality/value, decreased costs of production. Concerns focus food safety linked toxicity allergenicity, environmental potential chances gene flow, adverse effects non-target organisms, evolution resistance in weeds insects, genetic perturbations resulting unintended compounds, new diseases, or antibiotic resistance. This focusing concludes that they are a valuable option delivering economic outcomes by providing solutions many challenges facing mankind. technologies like non-GM can bring risks, but these have monitored quantified, allowing decisions balancing commercial, societal against measurable risks. While 'checks' 'balances' required, regulatory schemes must not alone which case countries.
Language: Английский
Citations
27
Chemosphere, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 314, P. 137713 - 137713
Published: Dec. 31, 2022
Language: Английский
Citations
24
Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 43(5), P. 348 - 375
Published: June 1, 2024
Rich nutrients, climate resilience, and the economic importance of millets are believed to ensure food security for future generations. Millets have habit growing against abiotic stresses (particularly drought stress). show much better resilience nutrient supplementation properties compared other major cereals. Understanding molecular mechanisms genes that respond transport will help understand tolerance mechanism improve both stresses. Genome sequences currently available two (sorghum pearl millet) eight minor (foxtail millet, finger kodo barnyard proso job's tear, fonio tef). Five (little brown top guinea raishan) do not genome date. Transcriptome studies identify differentially expressed (DEGs), mine induced in a particular stress develop several markers all plants, including millets. Some reports on transcriptome datasets plants exposed various biotic nutritional traits. Unfortunately, been adequately leveraged explore associated with traits such as enrichment, crop improvement. This underutilization stems from lack high-resolution limited exploration within field. As result, potential insights genetic understanding offered by these remain largely untapped. Through this review, we plan elucidate current status resources draw utilization resources. review motivate researchers utilize millet
Language: Английский
Citations
5
Sustainable development and biodiversity, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 31 - 61
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Language: Английский
Citations
4