The far bowl on the right contains Golden Rice, an example of biofortification using genetic engineering. The golden color of the grains comes from the increased amounts of beta-carotene.
Biofortification is the idea of breeding crops to increase their nutritional value. This can be done either through conventional selective breeding, or through genetic engineering. Biofortification differs from ordinary fortification because it focuses on making plant foods more nutritious as the plants are growing, rather than having nutrients added to the foods when they are being processed. This is an important improvement on ordinary fortification when it comes to providing nutrients for the rural poor, who rarely have access to commercially fortified foods. As such, biofortification is seen as an upcoming strategy for dealing with deficiencies of micronutrients in low and middle-income countries. In the case of iron, the WHO estimated that biofortification could help cure the 2 billion people suffering from iron deficiency-induced anemia.[1]
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Biofortification is the idea of breeding crops to increase their nutritional value. This can be done either through conventional selective breeding, or...
interventional strategies can be used: Adding zinc to soil, called agronomic biofortification, which both increases crop yields and provides more dietary zinc. Adding...
faster results and provide greater quantities of food. Transgenic biofortification in cereals has been considered as a promising method to combat malnutrition...
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phytate-laden food staples. Crop breeding to increase mineral density (biofortification) or reducing phytate content are under preliminary research. Wikimedia...
and industrial fortification (wheat flour, corn meal, cooking oils) Biofortification (breeding crops to increase their nutritional value, which can include...
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was awarded the World Food Prize in 2016 for his pioneering work on biofortification. Bouis was born in 1950 in Berkeley, California. He received his BA...
importance of thiamine (vitamin B1) in plant health: From crop yield to biofortification". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295 (34): 12002–13. doi:10.1074/jbc...
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Serio, Francesco; Santamaria, Pietro (2018). "Preliminary Evidences of Biofortification with Iodine of "Carota di Polignano", An Italian Carrot Landrace"....
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Transfer to Farmers for Convincing Politicians for Organic Rice and Biofortification of Zinc and Iron through it. International Conference on Scientific...
Prasad, Rajendra; Shivay, Yashbir S.; Kumar, Dinesh (2014). Agronomic Biofortification of Cereal Grains with Iron and Zinc. Advances in Agronomy. Vol. 125...
Other possible solutions are the industrial enrichment of food or biofortification of feedplants (e.g. vitamin A rich sweet potatoes). In the case of...
system research, fortification, small and medium enterprise assistance, biofortification of crops, and reducing post-harvest losses. GAIN has headquarters in...
Bacillus aryabhattai strains for improved growth, mobilization and biofortification of zinc in soybean and wheat cultivated in Vertisols of central India"...
breeding (i.e., it is not genetically modified) and an example of biofortification. QPM was developed by Surinder Vasal and Evangelina Villegas at the...
Fauquet C, Fellman J, et al. (2011). "The BioCassava plus program: biofortification of cassava for sub-Saharan Africa". Annual Review of Plant Biology...
emulsification. AGPs in cereal grains have potential applications in biofortification, as sources of dietary fibre to support gut bacteria and protective...
doi:10.1126/science.287.5451.303. PMID 10634784. S2CID 40258379. Iron biofortification Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, ACPFG website. Gray 2011...
Paul; Taylor, Nigel; Cahoon, Edgar (27 December 2017). "Provitamin A Biofortification of Cassava Enhances Shelf-Life but Reduces Dry Matter Content of Storage...
practice has been labeled a pseudoscience. bioeffector biofertilizer biofortification biofuel Any fuel that is produced from recently living biomass, as...
water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), calorie intake, balanced diet, biofortification of food etc. According to the Bangladesh Institute of Research and...
Agricultural Research, on nutritional focuses such as beta-glucan and iron biofortification. Though research outcomes are focused on wheat and barley for Australian...
traits particularly crucial for Africa like drought resistance and biofortification. In 2010, after nine years of talks, the Common Market for Eastern...
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