Diversifying food systems in the pursuit of sustainable food production and healthy diets

SL Dwivedi, ETL Van Bueren, S Ceccarelli… - Trends in plant …, 2017 - cell.com
Increasing demand for nutritious, safe, and healthy food because of a growing population,
and the pledge to maintain biodiversity and other resources, pose a major challenge to …

Senescence, nutrient remobilization, and yield in wheat and barley

A Distelfeld, R Avni, AM Fischer - Journal of experimental botany, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Cereals including wheat and barley are of primary importance to ensure food security for the
21st century. A combination of lab-and field-based approaches has led to a considerably …

Coarse and fine regulation of wheat yield components in response to genotype and environment

GA Slafer, R Savin, VO Sadras - Field Crops Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Wheat yield is frequently analysed in terms of yield components (spikes per m 2, grains per
spike, grain size), and correlations between components are commonly reported, but …

Biofortification of wheat grain with iron and zinc: integrating novel genomic resources and knowledge from model crops

P Borrill, JM Connorton, J Balk, AJ Miller… - Frontiers in plant …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Wheat, like many other staple cereals, contains low levels of the essential micronutrients
iron and zinc. Up to two billion people worldwide suffer from iron and zinc deficiencies …

A nitrogen fertilizer strategy for simultaneously increasing wheat grain yield and protein content: Mixed application of controlled-release urea and normal urea

G Zhang, S Liu, Y Dong, Y Liao, J Han - Field Crops Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing grain yield and protein content simultaneously in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is
challenging. Efficient nitrogen (N) management strategies, such as mixed application of …

Breeding for increased grain protein and micronutrient content in wheat: Ten years of the GPC-B1 gene

F Tabbita, S Pearce, AJ Barneix - Journal of Cereal Science, 2017 - Elsevier
To provide food and nutrition security for a growing world population, continued
improvements in the yield and nutritional quality of agricultural crops will be required. Wheat …

Enhancing the nutritional quality of major food crops through conventional and genomics-assisted breeding

KB Gaikwad, S Rani, M Kumar, V Gupta… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Nutritional stress is making over two billion world population malnourished. Either our
commercially cultivated varieties of cereals, pulses, and oilseed crops are deficient in …

Quantitative trait loci from identification to exploitation for crop improvement

J Kumar, DS Gupta, S Gupta, S Dubey, P Gupta… - Plant cell reports, 2017 - Springer
Advancement in the field of genetics and genomics after the discovery of Mendel's laws of
inheritance has led to map the genes controlling qualitative and quantitative traits in crop …

Genetic improvement of grain protein content and other health‐related constituents of wheat grain

HS Balyan, PK Gupta, S Kumar, R Dhariwal… - Plant …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
It is known that nearly one‐third of the world population currently suffers from malnutrition
due to lack of availability of adequate quantity of protein, vitamins and a number of …

Wheat end-use quality: State of art, genetics, genomics-assisted improvement, future challenges, and opportunities

M Subedi, B Ghimire, JW Bagwell, JW Buck… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Wheat is the most important source of food, feed, and nutrition for humans and livestock
around the world. The expanding population has increasing demands for various wheat …