Metabolic signatures from genebank collections: An underexploited resource for human health?

Despite the almost universal acceptance of the phrase “you are what you eat,” investment in understanding diet-based nutrition to address human health has been dwarfed compared to that for medicine-based interventions. Moreover, traditional breeding has focused on yield to the detriment of nutrition...

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Autores principales: Sreenivasulu, Nese, Alseekh, Saleh, Tiozon, Rhowell N., Graner, Andreas, Martin, Cathie, Fernie, Alisdair R.
Formato: Journal Article
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Publicado: Annual Reviews 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163968
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author Sreenivasulu, Nese
Alseekh, Saleh
Tiozon, Rhowell N.
Graner, Andreas
Martin, Cathie
Fernie, Alisdair R.
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Fernie, Alisdair R.
Graner, Andreas
Martin, Cathie
Sreenivasulu, Nese
Tiozon, Rhowell N.
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Alseekh, Saleh
Tiozon, Rhowell N.
Graner, Andreas
Martin, Cathie
Fernie, Alisdair R.
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description Despite the almost universal acceptance of the phrase “you are what you eat,” investment in understanding diet-based nutrition to address human health has been dwarfed compared to that for medicine-based interventions. Moreover, traditional breeding has focused on yield to the detriment of nutritional quality, meaning that although caloric content has remained high, the incidence of nutritional deficiencies and accompanying diseases (so-called hidden hunger) has risen dramatically. We review how genome sequencing coupled with metabolomics can facilitate the screening of genebank collections in the search for superior alleles related to the nutritional quality of crops. We argue that the first examples are very promising, suggesting that this approach could benefit broader ranges of crops and compounds with known relevance for human health. We argue that this represents anapproach complementary to metabolic engineering by transgenesis or gene editing that could be used to reverse some of the losses incurred through a recent focus on breeding for yield, although we caution that ensuring such approaches are not (re)introducing antinutrients is also necessary.
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spelling CGSpace1639682025-12-08T09:54:28Z Metabolic signatures from genebank collections: An underexploited resource for human health? Sreenivasulu, Nese Alseekh, Saleh Tiozon, Rhowell N. Graner, Andreas Martin, Cathie Fernie, Alisdair R. food science Despite the almost universal acceptance of the phrase “you are what you eat,” investment in understanding diet-based nutrition to address human health has been dwarfed compared to that for medicine-based interventions. Moreover, traditional breeding has focused on yield to the detriment of nutritional quality, meaning that although caloric content has remained high, the incidence of nutritional deficiencies and accompanying diseases (so-called hidden hunger) has risen dramatically. We review how genome sequencing coupled with metabolomics can facilitate the screening of genebank collections in the search for superior alleles related to the nutritional quality of crops. We argue that the first examples are very promising, suggesting that this approach could benefit broader ranges of crops and compounds with known relevance for human health. We argue that this represents anapproach complementary to metabolic engineering by transgenesis or gene editing that could be used to reverse some of the losses incurred through a recent focus on breeding for yield, although we caution that ensuring such approaches are not (re)introducing antinutrients is also necessary. 2023-03-27 2024-12-19T12:53:14Z 2024-12-19T12:53:14Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163968 en Open Access Annual Reviews Sreenivasulu, Nese; Alseekh, Saleh; Tiozon, Rhowell N.; Graner, Andreas; Martin, Cathie and Fernie, Alisdair R. 2023. Metabolic signatures from genebank collections: An underexploited resource for human health?. Annu. Rev. Food Sci. Technol., Volume 14 no. 1 p. 183-202
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Sreenivasulu, Nese
Alseekh, Saleh
Tiozon, Rhowell N.
Graner, Andreas
Martin, Cathie
Fernie, Alisdair R.
Metabolic signatures from genebank collections: An underexploited resource for human health?
title Metabolic signatures from genebank collections: An underexploited resource for human health?
title_full Metabolic signatures from genebank collections: An underexploited resource for human health?
title_fullStr Metabolic signatures from genebank collections: An underexploited resource for human health?
title_full_unstemmed Metabolic signatures from genebank collections: An underexploited resource for human health?
title_short Metabolic signatures from genebank collections: An underexploited resource for human health?
title_sort metabolic signatures from genebank collections an underexploited resource for human health
topic food science
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/163968
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