Biofortification of Food Crops

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Biofortification for Health and Nutrition

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Biofortification: Introduction, Approaches, Limitations, and Challenges

      • Ummed Singh, C S Praharaj, S. K. Chaturvedi, Abhishek Bohra

      Pages 3-18

   3. Global Poverty, Hunger, and Malnutrition: A Situational Analysis

      • Purushottam Sharma, Sudhakar Dwivedi, Deepak Singh

      Pages 19-30

   4. Zinc in Crops and Human Health

      • Soumitra Das, Andrew Green

      Pages 31-40

   5. Food Legumes for Nutritional Security and Health Benefits

      • N P Singh, Aditya Pratap

      Pages 41-50

   6. Biofortification of Food Legumes and Bioavailability of Nutrients

      • Jagdish Singh

      Pages 51-60

   7. Nutritional Benefits of Winter Pulses with Special Emphasis on Peas and Rajmash

      • A. K. Parihar, Abhishek Bohra, G. P. Dixit

      Pages 61-71

   8. Nutritional Benefits of Pigeonpea

      • I. P. Singh

      Pages 73-81

3. Biofortification Through Biotechnology and Breeding Tools

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Enriching Nutrient Density in Staple Crops Using Modern “-Omics” Tools

      • Abhishek Bohra, Uday Chand Jha, Sushil Kumar

      Pages 85-103

   3. Transgenic Strategies Towards Nutritional Enrichment of Crops

      • A. Das, S. Thakur, K. R. Soren, S. Datta, N P Singh

      Pages 105-113

   4. Genomics-Enabled Breeding for Enhancing Micronutrients in Crops

      • K. R. Soren, P. S. Shanmugavadivel, Priyanka Gangwar, Pallavi Singh, A. Das, N P Singh

      Pages 115-128

   5. Zinc Transporter: Mechanism for Improving Zn Availability

      • Lalit Kumar, Nand Lal Meena, Ummed Singh

      Pages 129-146

   6. Biofortification Through Breeding Interventions in Lentil

      • Jitendra Kumar, Rohit Kant, Syed Mohd Quatadah, Shiv Kumar, Ashutosh Sarker

      Pages 147-156

4. Biofortification with Improved Agronomy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-157

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   2. Soil Factors Associated with Micronutrient Acquisition in Crops- Biofortification Perspective

      • Anil Kumar, Anil K. Choudhary, Vijay Pooniya, Vinod K. Suri, Ummed Singh

      Pages 159-176

   3. Nutrient Mining: Addressing the Challenges to Soil Resources and Food Security

      • Kaushik Majumdar, Saroj Kumar Sanyal, Sudarshan Kumar Dutta, T. Satyanarayana, V. K. Singh

      Pages 177-198

   4. Improving Protein Density in Food Legumes Through Agronomic Interventions

      • C S Praharaj, Ummed Singh, S S Singh, Narendra Kumar

      Pages 199-215

   5. Micronutrient Deficiencies in Humans and Animals: Strategies for Their Improvement

      • Anshu Rahal, Yashbir Singh Shivay

      Pages 217-228

The chapters presented in this book ‘Biofortification of Food Crops’ depict how agricultural technological interventions have true role in alleviating malnutrition. This book highlights the role of multidisciplinary approaches to cope up with the challenges of micronutrient malnutrition or hidden hunger which is an alarming public health issue in most parts of the world including India. In this endeavour, different biofortification approaches such as agronomic (or ferti-fortification), breeding, biotechnological, physiological, microbial etc. has fulfilled their different mandates of nutrient enrichment of food crops including cereals and pulses. The contents of the book proves that biofortified plants have adequate potential to nourish nutrient depleted soils, help increase crop productivity and provide nutritional benefits to plants, humans and livestock.  The content and quality of information presented in this book will definitely provide multiple novel ideas of advance techniques and will stimulate innovative thoughts and directions amongst researchers and policy makers in the field of biofortification. In addition, the contributions presented in the book will be a good source of background knowledge and technical know-how to educate the readers about biofortification. The authors hope that the book entitled “Biofortification of Food Crops” would provide a suitable platform in our collective efforts for an appropriate dialogue among the scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, policy makers and farmers in reducing the budding issues of malnutrition through novel approaches and means.

• Anti-nutrients
• Biofortification
• Food Crops
• Hidden Hunger
• Quality Breeding

• Division of Crop Production, Indian Institute of Pulses Research, kanpur, India

  Ummed Singh

• Division of Crop Production, ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur, India

  C S Praharaj, S S Singh

• ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur, India

  N P Singh

Dr Ummed Singh is a Senior Scientist at ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur, India. Earlier Dr Singh served as Assistant Professor at SKUAST of Kashmir, Srinagar, India. He did his Post-Doctorate (2009-11) at the Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, P.R. China, where he worked on ‘Biofortification of Wheat’. He is currently responsible for developing efficient pulse based cropping systems, biofortified pulses and next generation fertilizers. His research findings have been documented in over 125 referred publications. He also serves as Editor, reviewer of national and international journals and holding life membership of 11 professional societies. Dr Singh has visited to China, Thailand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates etc. Dr Singh has also been awarded IMPHOS-FAI Award-2013, Best Poster-2014, SHRIRAM PURUSKAR 2013-14 and Innovative Scientist of the Year-2014.

Dr C S Praharaj is Principal Scientist at ICAR- IIPR Kanpur. He has also worked at CPRI, Shimla, CSWCRTI, Dehradun, CICR, Nagpur. His research interest is primarily on ‘enhancing water productivity per drop of water use’ through Resource conservation and Precision agriculture technologies. He has published 76 Research Papers, 2 books, 16 Book Chapters, 06 Technical Bulletins, 64 Papers in Proceedings/ symposium/ seminar, 51 Popular Articles and 24 compendiums/reports besides editor in three journals. He has visited the countries like, Egypt, Bangladesh and Nepal. He has also been awarded appreciation from Govt. of Odisha and Shriram Puruskar 2013-14.


Dr S S Singh is Principal Scientist & Head, Division of Crop Production, ICAR-IIPR, Kanpur. Earlier, he has been Head, Division of Crop Research at ICAR-RCER Patna, and Assistant Professor, Rajendra Agriculture University, Pusa, Bihar. His research interest is primarily in conservation agriculture, Integrated Farming Systems and Climate resilient agriculture. He has published 88 Research Papers, 3 books, 15 Book Chapters, 12 Technical Bulletins, 105 Papers in Proceedings/ symposium/ seminar, 45 Popular Articles and 42 Extension Folders. He has visited USA, UK, Australia, Mexico, Thailand, Philippines, Bangladesh and Nepal. He is recipient of Excellent Team Research Award of ICAR, Rajeev Gandhi Maulik Lekhan Award of Ministry of Home Affairs, GOI and Fellow of Indian Society of Agronomy.

Dr Narendra Pratap Singh, is a Director, ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur. Previously, Dr Singh was Project Coordinator (Chickpea). He did Post Doctorate from WA Biotechnology Centre, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia (2000) and Plant Biotechnology Institute, NRC, Saskatoon, Canada (2004). He has published over 150 research/conference papers. He served as Editor-in Chief, Journal of Food Legumes and Editors of more than 15 Indian and International Journals. Presently, he is also President of Indian Society of Pulses Research and Development, IIPR, Kanpur. He have been recipient of ‘Bioved Agri-Innovative Award-2015’ conferred by Bioved Research Institute, Allahabad.

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