Micronutrient malnutrition particularly prevalent in resource poor families in the develo**
world has emerged as a major health challenge. Billions of people worldwide suffer from …

Malnutrition is one of the important problems which affect the overall human productivity
costing huge economic losses to the nations. Addressing malnutrition problem is one of the …

Malnutrition has emerged as one of the major health problems worldwide. Traditional yellow
maize has low provitamin-A (proA) content and its genetic base in proA biofortification …

Sweet corn has recently experienced sharp rise in demand worldwide. Recessive sugary1
(su1) and shrunken2 (sh2) that enhances kernel sweetness have been abundantly used in …

Maize is an important cereal crop in the world for feed, food, fodder, and raw materials of
industries. Turcicum leaf blight (TLB) is a major foliar disease that can cause more than 50 …

Maize is one of the important food crops after rice and wheat. It has good nutritive value in
terms of starch, proteins, vitamins, and micronutrients which makes this crop important for …

Waxy corn is popular beacuse of its high amylopectin due to mutation in granule-bound
starch synthase-I or Waxy1 (Wx1) gene. Here, we characterized the wx1 allele among 24 …

Vitamin E deficiency is a serious health concern in humans. Biofortification of maize kernel
with high vitamin E (α-tocopherol) provides sustainable and cost-effective solution. Here, a …

Carotenoids are important micronutrients required by humans for growth and development.
Yellow maize among cereals possesses sufficient carotenoids, and thus, it is important to …

Protein and micronutrient deficiency have emerged as the major public health problems in
under-developed as well as develo** countries. Of the several approaches used to …