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Genetics- and genomics-based interventions for nutritional enhancement of grain legume crops: status and outlook

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13353-014-0268-z
10.1007/s13353-014-0268-z
 
Title Genetics- and genomics-based interventions for nutritional enhancement of grain legume crops: status and outlook
 
Creator Bohra, A
Parihar, A K
Singh, U
Singh, D
Singh, N P
Sahrawat, K L
Kumar, S
Joshi, R
 
Subject Genetics and Genomics
 
Description Meeting the food demands and ensuring nutritional
security of the ever increasing global population in the face of
degrading natural resource base and impending climate
change is the biggest challenge of the twenty first century.
The consequences of mineral/micronutrient deficiencies or
the hidden hunger in the developing world are indeed
alarming and need urgent attention. In addressing the problems
associated with mineral/micronutrient deficiency, grain
legumes as an integral component of the farming systems in
the developing world have to play a crucial role. For resourcepoor
populations, a strategy based on selecting and/or developing
grain legume cultivars with grains denser in
micronutrients, by biofortification, seems the most appropriate
and attractive approach to address the problem. This is evident
from the on-going global research efforts on biofortification to
provide nutrient-dense grains for use by the poorest of the
poor in the developing countries. Towards this end, rapidly
growing genomics technologies hold promise to hasten the
progress of breeding nutritious legume crops. In conjunction
with the myriad of expansions in genomics, advances in other
‘omics’ technologies particularly plant ionomics or ionome
profiling open up novel opportunities to comprehensively examine
the elemental composition and mineral networks of an
organism in a rapid and cost-effective manner. These emerging
technologies would effectively guide the scientific community
to enrich the edible parts of grain legumes with bioavailable
minerals and enhancers/promoters. We believe that
the application of these new-generation tools in turn would
provide crop-based solutions to hidden hunger worldwide
for achieving global nutritional security.
 
Publisher Springer
 
Date 2015
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9375/1/JAppliedGenetics_56_2_151-161_2015.pdf
Bohra, A and Parihar, A K and Singh, U and Singh, D and Singh, N P and Sahrawat, K L and Kumar, S and Joshi, R (2015) Genetics- and genomics-based interventions for nutritional enhancement of grain legume crops: status and outlook. Journal of Applied Genetics, 56 (2). pp. 151-161. ISSN 1234-1983