Vitamins and minerals bio-fortification of edible plants. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Noureddine Benkeblia.
• Editors: Benkeblia, Noureddine
• Contents: List of Contributors vii Foreword xi 1 Biofortification of Edible Plants: Set the Stage for Better Nutrition 1; Noureddine Benkeblia 2 Food Fortification: What’s in It for the Malnourished World? 27; Barbara Poniedziałek, Kinga Perkowska, and Piotr Rzymski 3 Modern Biotechnologies and Mineral Biofortification of Edible Crops 45; Noureddine Benkeblia and Kathleen L. Hefferon 4 Biotechnologies and Vitamins Biofortification of Edible Crops 71; Noureddine Benkeblia and Kathleen L. Hefferon 5 Carotenoids Biofortification of Sweet Potatoes 87; Noureddine Benkeblia, Elisabete M. Pinto, and Marta W. Vasconcelos 6 Improving Iron Nutrition in Plant Foods: The Role of Legumes and Soil Microbes 103; Mariana Roriz, Marta Barros, Paula M. L. Castro, Susana M. P. Carvalho, and Marta W. Vasconcelos 7 Biofortification of Carotenoids in Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: A Promising Strategy to Target Vitamin A Malnutrition 123; Hulikere Jagdish Shwetha, Shivaprasad Shilpa, Bangalore Prabhashankar Arathi, Marisiddaiah Raju, and Rangaswamy Lakshminarayana 8 Agronomic Biofortification from a Stakeholder’s Viewpoint: Evidence from Studies on Iodine-Enriched Foods in Uganda 163; Solomon Olum, Joshua Wesana, Walter Odongo, Joseph Mogendi, Collins Okello, Dominic Webale, Anselimo Makokha, Duncan Ongeng, Xavier Gellynck, and Hans De Steur 9 Biofortification of Cereals through Foliar Application of Minerals 191; Shahid Hussain, Ayta Umar, Mamoona Amir, and Muhammad Aon; ; 10 NAS Overexpression and Rice Zinc Biofortification: An Insight, Current Knowledge, and Outlook 223; Yuta Kawakami and Navreet K. Bhullar Index 235
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Chichester : Wiley Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 635.2; Crop improvement; Food crops -- Biotechnology; Plants, Edible; Enriched foods
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119511151
• Related ISBNs: 9781119511137
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