Overall the concentration of micronutrients in cereals and other staple food crops is significantly low. Genetic engineering offers huge potential to increase the capacity of…
Mineral elements and nutrients are absorbed by the plants in specific chemical forms i.e. roots absorb Fe and Zn in their cationic forms. For successful…
Food security is a global concern as micronutrient malnutrition, and health disorders are negatively impacting the socioeconomic conditions all over the world. Biofortification is directly…
Biofortification is a long journey from soil to grain but is essentially helpful to reduce hidden hunger. For the food chain, the plants are at…
Hidden hunger is affecting a significant portion of the population all over the globe and this problem must be eliminated to reduce disease burden and…
Nutrition-rich seeds are much beneficial for combating micronutrient malnutrition and hidden hunger elimination in human beings. Food security can be achieved by many folds by…
Physiology of Micronutrients Accumulation The physiological mechanisms for the accumulation of micronutrients in the edible portion of plants are not well identified. Biofortification of crop…