Tag: Biofortification

Free Download Harnessing Crop Biofortification for Sustainable Agriculture by Siddharth Tiwari, Baljeet Singh
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 398 Pages | ISBN : 9819734371 | 35.4 MB
This edited volume provides insights into the current state of food and nutritional security, highlights the significance of micronutrients for human health, offers a historical perspective on biofortification, and covers current strategies and challenges. This book explores the role of multidisciplinary approaches to cope up with the challenges of major nutrient deficiency.

Free Download Biofortification for Nutrient-Rich Crops
by Monika Garg
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032667273 | 331 pages | True PDF | 16.22 MB

Free Download Phytoremediation and Biofortification: Two Sides of One Coin by Xuebin Yin, Linxi Yuan
English | PDF | 2012 | 89 Pages | ISBN : 9400714386 | 2.1 MB
Phytoremediation consists of using plants and their associated microbes for environmental cleanup. Over the past 10 years, this treatment has gained recognition as a cost-effective, non-invasive, alternative or complimentary technology to engineering-based remediation methods. Biofortification, on the other hand, is an agricultural process that increases the uptake and accumulation of mineral nutrients in agricultural products through plant breeding, genetic engineering, or manipulation of agricultural practices.

Free Download Mineral Biofortification in Crop Plants for Ensuring Food Security by Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Muhammad Suleman Tahir, Mohsin Tanveer, Adnan Noor Shah
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 340 Pages | ISBN : 9819940893 | 9.7 MB
This book provides a comprehensive summary of the recent advances in the biofortification of plants under climate change and how it affects food security globally. The need for mineral biofortification to eradicate or alleviate malnutrition through sustainable agriculture is also discussed.

Free Download Legumes Biofortification by Muhammad Azhar Nadeem, Faheem Shehzad Baloch, Sajid Fiaz, Muhammad Aasim, Ephrem Habyarimana, Osman Sönmez, Nusret Zencirci
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 552 Pages | ISBN : 3031339568 | 43.6 MB
Sustainable food production is vital to ensure food and nutritional security to growing human population. Recently, there has been a shift in agricultural production system, crop production is not only considering yield as primary interest to produce higher number of calories for reducing hunger, but also more nutrient-rich food to reduce malnutrition or "hidden hunger". Micronutrient malnutrition is a continuing and serious public health problem in many countries, various Interventions to alleviate this problem have been implemented. Biofortification, the process of breeding nutrients into food crops, provides a comparatively cost effective, sustainable, and long-term means of delivering more micronutrients. Legumes have higher protein content than most plant foods approximately twice than cereals and are rich in the key micronutrients folate, niacin, thiamine, calcium, iron and zinc.

Free Download Phytoremediation and Biofortification: Strategies for Sustainable Environmental and Health Management
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1774914085 | 411 Pages | PDF (True) | 8 MB
For sustainable environmental management as a whole, the roles of phytoremediation and biofortification as two sides of the same coin must be highlighted. Phytoremediation is a process in which biological organisms are used to eliminate or nullify an environmental pollutant by a metabolic course of action. Biofortification, in contrast, is an agrarian process that enhances the micronutrient content of a food crop through plant breeding, genetic modification, use of enriched fertilizers, or management of agricultural practices. These two strategies, although targeting different objectives, both work on the same principle of the bio-extraction process that involves uptake, accretion, removal, and modification of micro- and macro-nutrient elements from the soil. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of phytoremediation and biofortification of Zn, Fe, Cu, and Cd, etc., and illustrates the emerging and innovative combination of these technologies.