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Nutrition potential of foxtail millet in comparison to other millets and major cereals

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Title Nutrition potential of foxtail millet in comparison to other millets and major cereals
 
Creator Bandyopadhyay, Tirthankar
Jaiswal, Vandana
Prasad, Manoj
 
Subject Foxtail Millet
Millets and Major Cereals
Nutrition
 
Description Accepted date: November 25, 2017
Global population is burgeoning at an alarming rate and is expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 and 11.2 billion by the end of this century. This has led to immense pressure on global agriculture, compounded by dwindling productivity of the existing systems and acreage because of climate change, resulting in ever-increasing input costs for the cultivation of most resource-intensive cereal crops such as rice, wheat, and maize. Ironically, the most affected populations are those with least resources to mitigate the problem—those belonging to Asian and Sub-Saharan Africa. It is against this backdrop that there is an ever-increasing need for adopting cereal crops that are easy to cultivate, less resource hungry, climate resilient, and importantly, that meet the major nutritional requirement of the feeding population. Foxtail millet is a perfect cereal crop in this light and stands to help significantly global endeavors toward food security and nutrition. The present chapter provides a comparative nutritional assessment of foxtail millet with other cereal crops, summarizes the major scientific approaches currently being undertaken for its biofortification and highlights potential avenues of crop improvement using conventional breeding, genomics, and other interdisciplinary “omic” tools.
Studies on millet genomics in Dr. Manoj Prasad’s laboratory are supported by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India [Grant No. EMR/2015/000464], by Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India [Grant No. BT/HRD/NBA/37/01/2014], and by Core Grant of National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, India.
 
Date 2018-01-04T11:29:07Z
2018-01-04T11:29:07Z
2017
 
Type Book chapter
 
Identifier In: Prasad M (ed), The Foxtail Millet Genome. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, pp 123-135
978-3-319-65617-5
http://223.31.159.10:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/812
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65617-5_10
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65617-5_10
 
Language en_US
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher Springer