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Genetic Enhancement Perspectives and Prospects for Grain Nutrients Density

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/11776/
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8249-3_31
doi:10.1007/978-981-15-8249-3_31
 
Title Genetic Enhancement Perspectives and Prospects for Grain Nutrients Density
 
Creator Are, A K
Gorthy, S
Mehtre, S P
Hariprasanna, K
Jayakumar, J
Kotla, A
Phuke, R
Gaddameedi, A
Kunapareddy, A
 
Subject Biofortification
Food and Nutrition
 
Description Diet-induced micronutrient malnutrition continues to be a major challenge globally,
especially in the developing world. With the ever-increasing population, it
becomes a daunting task to feed millions of mouths with nutritious food. It is time
to reorient agricultural systems to produce quality food to supply the calorie and
nutrient requirements needed by the human body. Biofortification is the process
of improving micronutrients density by genetic means. It is cheaper and sustainable
and complements well with the nutrient supplementation and fortification—
the short-term strategies that are currently deployed to address the micronutrient
malnutrition. Sorghum is one of the important food crops globally, adapted to
semi-arid tropics, and there is increased awareness on its nutritional importance.
Further, there is great opportunity to improve sorghum for nutritional quality.
This chapter deals about the genetic enhancement perspectives and prospects for
improving the nutritional quality with main emphasis on grain micronutrient
density in sorghum.
 
Publisher Springer Nature
 
Date 2021-01
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11776/1/GeneticEnhancementPerspectivesSorghum.pdf
Are, A K and Gorthy, S and Mehtre, S P and Hariprasanna, K and Jayakumar, J and Kotla, A and Phuke, R and Gaddameedi, A and Kunapareddy, A (2021) Genetic Enhancement Perspectives and Prospects for Grain Nutrients Density. In: Sorghum in the 21st Century: Food – Fodder – Feed – Fuel for a Rapidly Changing World. Springer Nature, Singapore, pp. 791-808.