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Genetic Enhancement Perspectives and Prospects for Grain Nutrients Density
Diet-induced micronutrient malnutrition continues to be a major challenge globally,
especially in the developing world. With the ever-increasing population, it
becomes a daunting task to feed millions of mouths with nutritious food. It is time
to reorient agricultural systems to produce quality food to supply the calorie and
nutrient requirements needed by the human body. Biofortification is the process
of improving micronutrients density by genetic means. It is cheaper and sustainable
and complements well with the nutrient supplementation and fortification—
the short-term strategies that are currently deployed to address the micronutrient
malnutrition. Sorghum is one of the important food crops globally, adapted to
semi-arid tropics, and there is increased awareness on its nutritional importance.
Further, there is great opportunity to improve sorghum for nutritional quality.
This chapter deals about the genetic enhancement perspectives and prospects for
improving the nutritional quality with main emphasis on grain micronutrient
density in sorghum
Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] Breeding
Tef or teff Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter, a cereal crop which adapts to extreme climatic and soil conditions, is extensively cultivated in the Horn of Africa. It is also considered as nutritious and a life-style crop due to its richness in essential nutrients and health-related benefits. However, the productivity of the crop is extremely low due to little scientific improvement made globally. It is, therefore, in the category of orphan crops. Together with all cereal crops, tef belongs to the Grass or Poaceae family. The improvement of tef focuses on selection and hybridization techniques. However, recently, molecular and high-throughput techniques have also been implemented to a limited scale. Forty-two tef varieties were approved for release by the Ethiopian National Variety Release Committee in the past four decades. Due to the adoption of improved varieties and technologies, the national average yield of tef has more than doubled over the last 20Â years. This review describes the progress in tef breeding and variety development as well as dissemination of the improved varieties to the farming community
Green Synthesis of Nanoparticles and Their Application in Cancer Therapy
none6simixedValeria De Matteis; Mariafrancesca Cascione; Loris Rizzello; Eva Liatsi-Douvitsa; Azzurra Apriceno; Rosaria RinaldiDE MATTEIS, Valeria; Cascione, Mariafrancesca; Rizzello, Loris; Liatsi-Douvitsa, Eva; Apriceno, Azzurra; Rinaldi, Rosari