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Effect of foliar applied zinc sulphate on phenotypic variability, association and heritability of yield and zinc biofortification related traits of wheat genotypes

Heliyon, 2023
Wheat is an important food crop worldwide, providing substantial calories and nourishment. Genetic variability in wheat germplasm is crucial for the development of cultivars with desirable features.
Asad Azeem, Sami Ul-Allah, Farrukh Azeem, Muhammad Naeem, Abdul Sattar, Muhammad Ijaz, Ahmad Sher   +6 more
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Agronomic biofortification with micronutrients: An efficient approach to increase nutritional quality in crops and combat hidden hunger

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
Micronutrient deficiencies, especially iron and zinc deficiencies, affect billions of people, causing stunted growth, weakened immunity and reduced cognitive ability, particularly in developing nations.
Vajinder Pal, Sharandeep Kaur, Vivek Sharma, Manmeet Kaur, Gayatri Verma, Parvender Sheoran, Viliam Bárek, Marian Brestic, Md Parvez Kabir, Akbar Hossain   +9 more
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Role of socio-economic research in developing, delivering and scaling new crop varieties: the case of staple crop biofortification

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023
The CGIAR biofortification program, HarvestPlus, was founded with the aim of improving the quality of diets through micronutrient-dense varieties of staple food crops.
Ekin Birol, Howarth E. Bouis
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Biofortification of potato nutrition

Journal of Advanced Research
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the fourth most important food crop after rice, wheat and maize in the world with the potential to feed the world's population, and potato is a major staple food in many countries. Currently, potato is grown in more than 100 countries and is consumed by more than 1 billion people worldwide, and the global annual output ...
Li, Linxuan, Zhu, Tingting, Wen, Lina, Zhang, Tanran, Ren, Maozhi   +4 more
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Enhancement of antioxidant activity and total phenolic content of Fomitopsis pinicola mycelium extract

Fungal Biology and Biotechnology
Background Fomitopsis pinicola is one of the most common fungi found in temperate zone of Europe, widely distributed spread in Asia and North America.
Tetiana Krupodorova, Victor Barshteyn, Veronika Dzhagan, Andrii Pluzhnyk, Tetiana Zaichenko, Yaroslav Blume   +5 more
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Strain-specific features of Pleurotus ostreatus growth in vitro and some of its biological activities

BMC Biotechnology
Background The production of Pleurotus ostreatus mycelium as a promising object for use in food and other industries is hampered by a lack of information about the strain-specificity of this fungus mycelium growth and its acquisition of various ...
Tetiana Krupodorova, Victor Barshteyn, Victoria Tsygankova, Mustafa Sevindik, Yaroslav Blume   +4 more
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Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) as a Source of Essential Fatty Acids – A Biofortification Approach

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021
Chickpea is a highly nutritious pulse crop with low digestible carbohydrates (40–60%), protein (15–22%), essential fats (4–8%), and a range of minerals and vitamins. The fatty acid composition of the seed adds value because fats govern the texture, shelf-
Amod Madurapperumage, Leung Tang, Pushparajah Thavarajah, William Bridges, Emerson Shipe, George Vandemark, Dil Thavarajah   +6 more
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Manipulation of Metabolic Pathways to Develop Vitamin-Enriched Crops for Human Health

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017
Vitamin deficiencies are major forms of micronutrient deficiencies, and are associated with huge economic losses as well as severe physical and intellectual damages to humans.
Ling Jiang, Ling Jiang, Weixuan Wang, Weixuan Wang, Tong Lian, Chunyi Zhang, Chunyi Zhang   +6 more
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Multiplying the efficiency and impact of biofortification through metabolic engineering

Nature Communications, 2020
Biofortification is an effective means to reduce micronutrient malnutrition. Here, the authors review recent advances in biofortification and propose stacking multiple micronutrient traits into high-yielding varieties through the combination of ...
Dominique Van Der Straeten, Navreet K. Bhullar, Hans De Steur, Wilhelm Gruissem, Donald MacKenzie, Wolfgang Pfeiffer, Matin Qaim, Inez Slamet-Loedin, Simon Strobbe, Joe Tohme, Kurniawan Rudi Trijatmiko, Hervé Vanderschuren, Marc Van Montagu, Chunyi Zhang, Howarth Bouis   +14 more
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Biofortification: way forward toward micronutrient deficiency

EQA, 2021
Half of the World’s people are being affected by micronutrient-deficiencies. Mostly in developing countries, the human development, along with economic development are hindered by malnutrition.
Zain Mushtaq, Anum Nazir
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