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Potato biofortification: an effective way to fight global hidden hunger.
Singh, Baljeet; Goutam, Umesh; Kukreja, Sarvjeet; Sharma, Jagdev; Sood, Salej; Bhardwaj, Vinay.
Afiliación
  • Singh B; Division of Crop Improvement and Seed Technology, Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, India.
  • Goutam U; School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India.
  • Kukreja S; School of Bioengineering and Biosciences, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India.
  • Sharma J; Department of Agronomy, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India.
  • Sood S; Division of Crop Production, Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, India.
  • Bhardwaj V; Division of Crop Improvement and Seed Technology, Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, India.
Physiol Mol Biol Plants ; 27(10): 2297-2313, 2021 Oct.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34744367
ABSTRACT
Hidden hunger is leading to extensive health problems in the developing world. Several strategies could be used to reduce the micronutrient deficiencies by increasing the dietary uptake of essential micronutrients. These include diet diversification, pharmaceutical supplementation, food fortification and crop biofortification. Among all, crop biofortification is the most sustainable and acceptable strategy to overcome the global issue of hidden hunger. Since most of the people suffering from micronutrient deficiencies, have monetary issues and are dependent on staple crops to fulfil their recommended daily requirements of various essential micronutrients. Therefore, increasing the micronutrient concentrations in cost effective staple crops seems to be an effective solution. Potato being the world's most consumed non-grain staple crop with enormous industrial demand appears to be an ideal candidate for biofortification. It can be grown in different climatic conditions, provide high yield, nutrition and dry matter in lesser time. In addition, huge potato germplasm have natural variations related to micronutrient concentrations, which can be utilized for its biofortification. This review discuss the current scenario of micronutrient malnutrition and various strategies that could be used to overcome it. The review also shed a light on the genetic variations present in potato germplasm and suggest effective ways to incorporate them into modern high yielding potato varieties.
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Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Idioma: En Revista: Physiol Mol Biol Plants Año: 2021 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: India

Texto completo: 1 Colección: 01-internacional Base de datos: MEDLINE Aspecto: Determinantes_sociais_saude Idioma: En Revista: Physiol Mol Biol Plants Año: 2021 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: India
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