Enhancing the Nutritional Quality of Major Food Crops Through Conventional and Genomics-Assisted Breeding.

ABSTRACT: Nutritional stress is making over two billion world population malnourished. Either our commercially cultivated varieties of cereals, pulses, and oilseed crops are deficient in essential nutrients or the soils in which these crops grow are becoming devoid of minerals. Unfortunately, our major food crops are poor sources of micronutrients required for normal human growth. To overcome the problem of nutritional deficiency, greater emphasis should be laid on the identification of genes/quantitative trait loci (QTLs) pertaining to essential nutrients and their successful deployment in elite breeding lines through marker-assisted breeding. The manuscript deals with information on identified QTLs for protein content, vitamins, macronutrients, micro-nutrients, minerals, oil content, and essential

SUBMITTER: Gaikwad KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7725794 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature