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Exploration of millet models for developing nutrient rich graminaceous crops

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Title Exploration of millet models for developing nutrient rich graminaceous crops
 
Creator Muthamilarasan, Mehanathan
Dhaka, Annvi
Yadav, Rattan
Prasad, Manoj
 
Subject Millets
Nutrition
Gramineae
Food security
Genomics
 
Description Accepted date: 28 August 2015
Protein-energy malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies contribute to high mortality among considerable proportion of the current 7.2 billion global populations, especially children. Although poverty and diets poor in nutrition are prime reasons for prevalence of malnutrition, nutritionally dense crops offer an inexpensive and sustainable solution to the problem of malnutrition. Remarkably, millets are nutritionally superior to major non-millet cereals. They especially are rich in dietary fibers, antioxidants, phytochemicals and polyphenols, which contribute broad-spectrum positive impacts to human health. However, millets have received lesser research attention universally, and considering this, the present review was planned to summarize the reports available on nutrition profile of millets and non-millet cereals to provide a comparative insight on importance of millets. It also emphasizes the need for research on deciphering nutritional traits present in millets and to develop strategies for introgressing these traits into other conventional staple crops using germplasm and 'omics' technologies. In some millet species, excellent 'omics' and germplasm panels have started to get available which can act as a starting point for understanding as well as of introgressing healthful traits across millets and non-millet cereals.
Research in the area of millet genomics at Dr. Manoj Prasad’s
laboratory is supported by the core grant of National Institute of
Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, India. Mehanathan
Muthamilarasan and Annvi Dhaka acknowledge the receipt of
research fellowship from University Grants Commission, New
Delhi, India. Dr. Rattan Yadav acknowledges travel grant awarded to
him via Strategic Insight Programme (SIP) award (ABR CS 3141 INT)
of the UK’s Welsh Government that allowed placement in Dr. Manoj
Prasad’s laboratory at NIPGR and help developed ideas reported in
this review.
 
Date 2015-12-30T08:35:36Z
2015-12-30T08:35:36Z
2016
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Plant Science, 242: 89-97
0168-9452
http://172.16.0.77:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/479
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168945215300558
10.1016/j.plantsci.2015.08.023
 
Language en_US
 
Publisher Elsevier B.V.