Chapter 2. Screening and use of nutritional and health-related benefits of the main crops

Wheat, maize, rice, and barley play a critical role in the human diet, contributing to most of the calories and protein intake worldwide. This is mainly because of their higher productivity, storability, adaptability to different climate conditions, accessibility, and affordability, compared to othe...

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Autores principales: Ibba, Maria Itria, Palacios-Rojas, Natalia, Rosales-Nolasco, Aldo
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132636
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Palacios-Rojas, Natalia
Rosales-Nolasco, Aldo
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description Wheat, maize, rice, and barley play a critical role in the human diet, contributing to most of the calories and protein intake worldwide. This is mainly because of their higher productivity, storability, adaptability to different climate conditions, accessibility, and affordability, compared to other crops. However, even if food production has grown in the past years, nutrient deficiency is currently posing a serious threat, with millions of people suffering from malnutrition every year. Additionally, consumption of some cereals has been associated with adverse health reactions which affect 1%–10% of the world population. For these reasons, nutritional quality improvement of cereal grains has become a major target for all the stakeholders participating in cereal food production. Thus several breeding programs worldwide have been focusing on developing nutritionally enriched grains. This chapter will present the recent progress obtained in micronutrient biofortification (minerals, provitamin A, and anthocyanins), dietary fibers’ improvement, and modulation of protein content and quality in four major staple crops, wheat, maize, rice, and barley, using nontransgenic approaches. The feasibility of using natural variations, induced mutations, or other approaches involving genomic manipulation will also be discussed.
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spelling CGSpace1326362024-10-18T13:01:08Z Chapter 2. Screening and use of nutritional and health-related benefits of the main crops Ibba, Maria Itria Palacios-Rojas, Natalia Rosales-Nolasco, Aldo barley biofortification foods maize trace elements plant genetics rice wheat Wheat, maize, rice, and barley play a critical role in the human diet, contributing to most of the calories and protein intake worldwide. This is mainly because of their higher productivity, storability, adaptability to different climate conditions, accessibility, and affordability, compared to other crops. However, even if food production has grown in the past years, nutrient deficiency is currently posing a serious threat, with millions of people suffering from malnutrition every year. Additionally, consumption of some cereals has been associated with adverse health reactions which affect 1%–10% of the world population. For these reasons, nutritional quality improvement of cereal grains has become a major target for all the stakeholders participating in cereal food production. Thus several breeding programs worldwide have been focusing on developing nutritionally enriched grains. This chapter will present the recent progress obtained in micronutrient biofortification (minerals, provitamin A, and anthocyanins), dietary fibers’ improvement, and modulation of protein content and quality in four major staple crops, wheat, maize, rice, and barley, using nontransgenic approaches. The feasibility of using natural variations, induced mutations, or other approaches involving genomic manipulation will also be discussed. 2023 2023-11-01T15:39:25Z 2023-11-01T15:39:25Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/132636 en Limited Access Elsevier Ibba, M. I., Palacios-Rojas, N., & Rosales-Nolasco, A. (2023). Screening and use of nutritional and health-related benefits of the main crops. In Developing Sustainable and Health Promoting Cereals and Pseudocereals (pp. 25–55). Elsevier.
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biofortification
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plant genetics
rice
wheat
Ibba, Maria Itria
Palacios-Rojas, Natalia
Rosales-Nolasco, Aldo
Chapter 2. Screening and use of nutritional and health-related benefits of the main crops
title Chapter 2. Screening and use of nutritional and health-related benefits of the main crops
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title_short Chapter 2. Screening and use of nutritional and health-related benefits of the main crops
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biofortification
foods
maize
trace elements
plant genetics
rice
wheat
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