Nutritional Quality Improvement in Plants

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Biofortified Zn and Fe Rice: Potential Contribution for Dietary Mineral and Human Health

   • Nikolaos Tsakirpaloglou, B. P. Mallikarjuna Swamy, Cecilia Acuin, Inez H. Slamet-Loedin

   Pages 1-24

3. All Roads Leading to: Iron Phytofortification

   • Karuna Yadav, Prashanti Patel, T. R. Ganapathi

   Pages 25-54

4. Paradigm Shift from Marker-Assisted Breeding to Genomics-Assisted Breeding for Calcium Nutrition in Finger Millet

   • Divya Sharma, Salej Sood, Anil Kumar

   Pages 55-77

5. Iodine Biofortification of Crops

   • Irma Esther Dávila-Rangel, Paola Leija-Martínez, Julia Medrano-Macías, Laura Olivia Fuentes-Lara, Susana González-Morales, Antonio Juárez-Maldonado et al.

   Pages 79-113

6. Biofortification of Maize for Protein Quality and Provitamin-A Content

   • Firoz Hossain, Vignesh Muthusamy, Rajkumar U. Zunjare, Hari S. Gupta

   Pages 115-136

7. Biofortification of Crops with Folates: From Plant Metabolism to Table

   • Rocío Isabel Díaz de la Garza, Perla Azucena Ramos-Parra, Heriberto Rafael Vidal-Limon

   Pages 137-175

8. Thiamine and Its Role in Protection Against Stress in Plants (Enhancement in Thiamine Content for Nutritional Quality Improvement)

   • Zetty Norhana Balia Yusof

   Pages 177-186

9. Vitamins B6-, C-, and E-Enriched Crops

   • Manish Sainger, Darshna Chaudhary, Ranjana Jaiwal, Anil K. Chhillar, Pawan Kumar Jaiwal

   Pages 187-229

10. Strategies that Influence the Production of Secondary Metabolites in Plants

    • Lina Garcia-Mier, Sandra Neli Jimenez-García, Cuauhtémoc Sandoval Salazar, Luis Miguel Contreras-Medina, Karen Esquivel Escalante, Carlos Guzman Martinez et al.

    Pages 231-270

11. Development of Brassica Oilseed Crops with Low Antinutritional Glucosinolates and Rich in Anticancer Glucosinolates

    • Naveen C. Bisht, Rehna Augustine

    Pages 271-287

12. Biotechnological Strategies for Development of Aflatoxin-Free Crops

    • Kalyani Prasad, Kiran Kumar Sharma, Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur

    Pages 289-376

13. Reducing the Acrylamide-Forming Potential of Crop Plants

    • Sarah Raffan, Nigel G. Halford

    Pages 377-399

14. Phytate-Free Food Crops: Phytases—The Game Changers for Alleviation of Micronutrient Malnutrition and Improved Nutrition

    • Tanushri Kaul, Nitya Meenakshi Raman, Murugesh Eswaran, Chinreddy Subramanyam Reddy, Rashmi Kaul, Arul Prakash Thangaraj et al.

    Pages 401-411

15. Biofortification in Pearl Millet: From Conception to Dissemination

    • Alphonse Vinoth, Ramalingam Ravindhran

    Pages 413-428

16. Biotechnology for Nutritional and Associated Processing Quality Improvement in Potato

    • Som Dutt, Anshul Sharma Manjul, Mamta Chauhan, Sushil Sudhakar Changan, Pinky Raigond, Brajesh Singh et al.

    Pages 429-483

17. Role and Applications of Bioinformatics in Improvement of Nutritional Quality and Yield of Crops

    • Mehak Dangi, Ritu Jakhar, Sahil Deswal, Anil K. Chhillar

    Pages 485-498

This book presents a detailed overview and critical evaluation of recent advances and remaining challenges in improving nutritional quality and/or avoiding the accumulation of undesirable substances in plants using a variety of strategies based on modern biological tools and techniques. Each review chapter provides an authoritative and insightful account of the various aspects of nutritional enhancement of plants. In the course of the last two decades, several food crops rich in macro- and micronutrients have been developed to improve health and protect a large section of the populace in developing countries from chronic diseases. Providing extensive information on these developments, this book offers a valuable resource for all researchers, students and industrialists working in agriculture, the plant sciences, agronomy, horticulture, biotechnology, food and nutrition, and the soil and environmental sciences.

• biofortification
• staple food crops
• micronutrient deficiency
• health-promoting substances
• phytonutrients
• Golden rice
• malnutrition
• secondary metabolites
• metabolic engineering
• pro-vitamin A crops
• vitamins
• molecular breeding

• Center for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India

  Pawan Kumar Jaiwal

• Centre for Biotechnology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India

  Anil K. Chhillar, Darshna Chaudhary

• Department of Zoology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, India

  Ranjana Jaiwal

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