Pearl millet: a climate-resilient nutricereal for mitigating hidden hunger and provide nutritional security

CT Satyavathi, S Ambawat, V Khandelwal… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is the sixth most important cereal crop after rice,
wheat, maize, barley and sorghum. It is widely grown on 30 million ha in the arid and semi …

Biofortified crops generated by breeding, agronomy, and transgenic approaches are improving lives of millions of people around the world

M Garg, N Sharma, S Sharma, P Kapoor… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Biofortification is an upcoming, promising, cost-effective, and sustainable technique of
delivering micronutrients to a population that has limited access to diverse diets and other …

Biofortification of crops with seven mineral elements often lacking in human diets–iron, zinc, copper, calcium, magnesium, selenium and iodine

PJ White, MR Broadley - New phytologist, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The diets of over two‐thirds of the world's population lack one or more essential mineral
elements. This can be remedied through dietary diversification, mineral supplementation …

Progress update: crop development of biofortified staple food crops under HarvestPlus

MS Andersson, A Saltzman, PS Virk… - African Journal of Food …, 2017 - ajol.info
Over the past 15 years, biofortification, the process of breeding nutrients into food crops, has
gained ample recognition as a cost-effective, complementary, feasible means of delivering …

Physiological limits to zinc biofortification of edible crops

PJ White, MR Broadley - Frontiers in plant science, 2011 - frontiersin.org
It has been estimated that one-third of the world's population lack sufficient Zn for adequate
nutrition. This can be alleviated by increasing dietary Zn intakes through Zn biofortification of …

Genetic improvement of pearl millet in India

OP Yadav, KN Rai - Agricultural Research, 2013 - Springer
Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is grown widely in the arid and semi-arid
tropical regions in Indian subcontinent and African continent under the most adverse agro …

Biofortification in millets: a sustainable approach for nutritional security

A Vinoth, R Ravindhran - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Nutritional insecurity is a major threat to the world's population that is highly dependent on
cereals-based diet, deficient in micronutrients. Next to cereals, millets are the primary …

[HTML][HTML] Breeding biofortified pearl millet varieties and hybrids to enhance millet markets for human nutrition

M Govindaraj, KN Rai, B Cherian, WH Pfeiffer… - Agriculture, 2019 - mdpi.com
Pearl millet is an important food crop in the arid and semi-arid tropical regions of Africa and
Asia. Iron and zinc deficiencies are widespread and serious public health problems …

Increasing the utilisation of sorghum, millets and pseudocereals: Developments in the science of their phenolic phytochemicals, biofortification and protein …

JRN Taylor, PS Belton, T Beta, KG Duodu - Journal of Cereal Science, 2014 - Elsevier
There is considerable interest in sorghum, millets and pseudocereals for their phytochemical
content, their nutritional potential and their use in gluten-free products. They are generally …

Biofortification under climate change: the fight between quality and quantity

A Maqbool, M Abrar, A Bakhsh, S Çalışkan… - … , climate, plant and …, 2020 - Springer
Climate change has been a serious problem in our industrialized world for the last century.
We have faced its devastating effects on the environment, agriculture and human …