Toward Eradication of B-Vitamin Deficiencies: Considerations for Crop Biofortification.

ABSTRACT: 'Hidden hunger' involves insufficient intake of micronutrients and is estimated to affect over two billion people on a global scale. Malnutrition of vitamins and minerals is known to cause an alarming number of casualties, even in the developed world. Many staple crops, although serving as the main dietary component for large population groups, deliver inadequate amounts of micronutrients. Biofortification, the augmentation of natural micronutrient levels in crop products through breeding or genetic engineering, is a pivotal tool in the fight against micronutrient malnutrition (MNM). Although these approaches have shown to be successful in several species, a more extensive knowledge of plant metabolism and function of these micronutrients is required to refine and improve biofortification

SUBMITTER: Strobbe S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5897740 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature