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

cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Centeren_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeAccelerated Breedingen_US
cg.creator.identifierMaria Itria Ibba: 0000-0002-3263-0301en_US
cg.creator.identifiernatalia palacios rojas: 0000-0002-3072-4611en_US
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-90566-4.00015-1en_US
cg.isbn978-0-323-90566-4en_US
cg.placeUnited States of Americaen_US
dc.contributor.authorIbba, Maria Itriaen_US
dc.contributor.authorPalacios-Rojas, Nataliaen_US
dc.contributor.authorRosales-Nolasco, Aldoen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-01T15:39:25Zen_US
dc.date.available2023-11-01T15:39:25Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/132636en_US
dc.titleChapter 2. Screening and use of nutritional and health-related benefits of the main cropsen_US
dcterms.abstractWheat, 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.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationIbba, 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.en_US
dcterms.issued2023en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserveden_US
dcterms.publisherElsevieren_US
dcterms.subjectbarleyen_US
dcterms.subjectbiofortificationen_US
dcterms.subjectfoodsen_US
dcterms.subjectmaizeen_US
dcterms.subjecttrace elementsen_US
dcterms.subjectplant geneticsen_US
dcterms.subjectriceen_US
dcterms.subjectwheaten_US
dcterms.typeBook Chapteren_US

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