Unlocking the potential of wild rice to bring missing nutrition to elite grains

The domestication and artificial selection of rice involved profound genetic changes that rendered wild rice more suitable for cultivation and consumption. As a result, rice has been extensively used as a caloric source to address hunger without sufficiently considering its total nutritional value....

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Autores principales: Tiozon, Rhowell Jr.N., Zhang, Changquan, Kim, Sung-Ryul, Liu, Qiaoquan, Fernie, Alisdair R., Sreenivasulu, Nese
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175945
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author Tiozon, Rhowell Jr.N.
Zhang, Changquan
Kim, Sung-Ryul
Liu, Qiaoquan
Fernie, Alisdair R.
Sreenivasulu, Nese
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Kim, Sung-Ryul
Liu, Qiaoquan
Sreenivasulu, Nese
Tiozon, Rhowell Jr.N.
Zhang, Changquan
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Zhang, Changquan
Kim, Sung-Ryul
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description The domestication and artificial selection of rice involved profound genetic changes that rendered wild rice more suitable for cultivation and consumption. As a result, rice has been extensively used as a caloric source to address hunger without sufficiently considering its total nutritional value. In this review, we highlight how domestication has altered starch quality and other nutritional traits in rice, including flavonoid, protein, and lipid content, as well as digestibility and texture. Precise genetic alterations through transgenic technologies hold significant promise for the reintroduction of key nutrient biosynthesis genes that have been lost in cultivated rice. Although there is currently little concrete evidence that genome editing has improved wild rice, the de novodomestication of wild rice enables the retention of its multi-nutritional properties while enhancing its agronomic performance and grain quality. We propose that the use of accelerated breeding techniques to introgress beneficial nutritional alleles from wild rice into elite pools could advance efforts to use wild rice to improve human health.
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spelling CGSpace1759452025-12-08T09:54:28Z Unlocking the potential of wild rice to bring missing nutrition to elite grains Tiozon, Rhowell Jr.N. Zhang, Changquan Kim, Sung-Ryul Liu, Qiaoquan Fernie, Alisdair R. Sreenivasulu, Nese biofortification nutritional value human nutrition rice domestication artificial selection genome editing genetic improvement The domestication and artificial selection of rice involved profound genetic changes that rendered wild rice more suitable for cultivation and consumption. As a result, rice has been extensively used as a caloric source to address hunger without sufficiently considering its total nutritional value. In this review, we highlight how domestication has altered starch quality and other nutritional traits in rice, including flavonoid, protein, and lipid content, as well as digestibility and texture. Precise genetic alterations through transgenic technologies hold significant promise for the reintroduction of key nutrient biosynthesis genes that have been lost in cultivated rice. Although there is currently little concrete evidence that genome editing has improved wild rice, the de novodomestication of wild rice enables the retention of its multi-nutritional properties while enhancing its agronomic performance and grain quality. We propose that the use of accelerated breeding techniques to introgress beneficial nutritional alleles from wild rice into elite pools could advance efforts to use wild rice to improve human health. 2025-06 2025-08-04T03:02:07Z 2025-08-04T03:02:07Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175945 en Open Access application/pdf Elsevier Rhowell Jr, N. Tiozon, Changquan Zhang, Sung-Ryul Kim, Qiaoquan Liu, Alisdair R. Fernie, and Nese Sreenivasulu. "Unlocking the potential of wild rice to bring the missing nutrition to elite grains." Plant Communications (2025).
spellingShingle biofortification
nutritional value
human nutrition
rice
domestication
artificial selection
genome editing
genetic improvement
Tiozon, Rhowell Jr.N.
Zhang, Changquan
Kim, Sung-Ryul
Liu, Qiaoquan
Fernie, Alisdair R.
Sreenivasulu, Nese
Unlocking the potential of wild rice to bring missing nutrition to elite grains
title Unlocking the potential of wild rice to bring missing nutrition to elite grains
title_full Unlocking the potential of wild rice to bring missing nutrition to elite grains
title_fullStr Unlocking the potential of wild rice to bring missing nutrition to elite grains
title_full_unstemmed Unlocking the potential of wild rice to bring missing nutrition to elite grains
title_short Unlocking the potential of wild rice to bring missing nutrition to elite grains
title_sort unlocking the potential of wild rice to bring missing nutrition to elite grains
topic biofortification
nutritional value
human nutrition
rice
domestication
artificial selection
genome editing
genetic improvement
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175945
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