Vitamins and Minerals Biofortification of Edible Plants

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 Poniedzialek, 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

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