Improvement of nutraceutical traits of banana: new breeding techniques

Banana (Musa spp.) is an herbaceous, everlasting green monocotyledonous plant belonging to the family Musaceae. It is a major staple crop after rice, maize, wheat, potato and cassava, and it has a high potential to contribute to food and nutrition security. It is an excellent fruit full of micronutr...

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Autores principales: Tripathi, J., Ntui, V.O., Malarvizhi, M., Muiruri, K.S., Ravishankar, K., Tripathi, L.
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Springer 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132392
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author Tripathi, J.
Ntui, V.O.
Malarvizhi, M.
Muiruri, K.S.
Ravishankar, K.
Tripathi, L.
author_browse Malarvizhi, M.
Muiruri, K.S.
Ntui, V.O.
Ravishankar, K.
Tripathi, J.
Tripathi, L.
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Ntui, V.O.
Malarvizhi, M.
Muiruri, K.S.
Ravishankar, K.
Tripathi, L.
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description Banana (Musa spp.) is an herbaceous, everlasting green monocotyledonous plant belonging to the family Musaceae. It is a major staple crop after rice, maize, wheat, potato and cassava, and it has a high potential to contribute to food and nutrition security. It is an excellent fruit full of micronutrients, especially vitamin A, iron, potassium, and magnesium, and is a source of energy for millions of inhabitants of tropical and subtropical regions. Despite these qualities, banana is still lacking in various essential nutrients. The conventional breeding program aims to increase the nutritional quality of banana. Still, the program is facing severe challenges due to the sterile seedless nature of banana and the narrow genetic diversity of several banana cultivars. Accessibility of well-annotated Musa genome sequences and established transformation and gene-editing platforms can contribute to developing banana with high dietary value. Furthermore, banana can produce edible vaccines, paving the way for future syringe-less vaccine development. This book chapter describes the various aspects of nutrition and the health-related importance of banana.
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spelling CGSpace1323922025-12-08T09:54:28Z Improvement of nutraceutical traits of banana: new breeding techniques Tripathi, J. Ntui, V.O. Malarvizhi, M. Muiruri, K.S. Ravishankar, K. Tripathi, L. bananas biofortification bioinformatics diversity breeding genetic engineering gene editing Banana (Musa spp.) is an herbaceous, everlasting green monocotyledonous plant belonging to the family Musaceae. It is a major staple crop after rice, maize, wheat, potato and cassava, and it has a high potential to contribute to food and nutrition security. It is an excellent fruit full of micronutrients, especially vitamin A, iron, potassium, and magnesium, and is a source of energy for millions of inhabitants of tropical and subtropical regions. Despite these qualities, banana is still lacking in various essential nutrients. The conventional breeding program aims to increase the nutritional quality of banana. Still, the program is facing severe challenges due to the sterile seedless nature of banana and the narrow genetic diversity of several banana cultivars. Accessibility of well-annotated Musa genome sequences and established transformation and gene-editing platforms can contribute to developing banana with high dietary value. Furthermore, banana can produce edible vaccines, paving the way for future syringe-less vaccine development. This book chapter describes the various aspects of nutrition and the health-related importance of banana. 2023 2023-10-24T08:22:35Z 2023-10-24T08:22:35Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132392 en Limited Access Springer Tripathi, J., Ntui, V.O., Malarvizhi, M., Muiruri, K.S., Ravishankar, K. & Tripathi, L. (2023). Improvement of netraceutical traits of banana: new breeding techniques. In C. Kole, Compendium of crop genome designing for nutraceuticals. Gateway East, Singapore: Springer, (p. 1-33).
spellingShingle bananas
biofortification
bioinformatics
diversity
breeding
genetic engineering
gene editing
Tripathi, J.
Ntui, V.O.
Malarvizhi, M.
Muiruri, K.S.
Ravishankar, K.
Tripathi, L.
Improvement of nutraceutical traits of banana: new breeding techniques
title Improvement of nutraceutical traits of banana: new breeding techniques
title_full Improvement of nutraceutical traits of banana: new breeding techniques
title_fullStr Improvement of nutraceutical traits of banana: new breeding techniques
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title_short Improvement of nutraceutical traits of banana: new breeding techniques
title_sort improvement of nutraceutical traits of banana new breeding techniques
topic bananas
biofortification
bioinformatics
diversity
breeding
genetic engineering
gene editing
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