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Mineral Bioavailability Through Mutation Breeding in Pulse Crops: A Review

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For any national food security program, crop production plays an important role to fulfill the demands of dwelling inhabitants. Induced mutagenesis is one of the important and practical fields of breeding strategies, through which the biggest accomplishments have been gained with the development of mutant varieties, especially for cereal crops, which are superior for certain useful traits like yield and minerals components. In spite of these achievements, the people of Indian subcontinent and other developing nations are facing immense scarcity of food and are in most awful condition with concomitant increase in malnutrition. In order to reduce food insecurity and malnutrition alarm, nations like India have to revitalize the policies and strategies of agriculture practices. Additionally, the research activities related to mutation breeding on other crops, especially pulses, have to be enhanced which can act as an aiding weapon to boost up the crop production. In the present review, an effort has been put forward to assess the impact of mutation breeding on crop production and mineral bioavailability enhancement in different crop plants. As mutation breeding has become the most successful field of application of nuclear techniques in food and agriculture all over the world, finishing annotations are being put in front to let the policy makers know the paybacks of enhancing mutation breeding research in crops especially pulses, of which India being the largest producer.

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The lead author is highly acknowledging the financial assistance in the form of Fellowship (BSR-UGC) received from UGC, New Delhi, India, and IAEA, Vienna Databases Management, through which most of the information was retrieved.

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  1. KERB Biotech, Bemina, Srinagar, 190 001, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Mohammad Imran Kozgar

  2. Mutation Breeding Laboratory, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, 202 002, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Mohammad Imran Kozgar & Samiullah Khan

  3. Department of Botany, Government Degree College (Boys), Anantnag, 192 102, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Mohd Rafiq Wani

  4. Department of Botany, Sri Pratap College, Srinagar, 190 001, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Parvaiz Ahmad

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    Parvaiz Ahmad

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    Mohd Rafiq Wani

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    Mohamed Mahgoub Azooz

  4. Signaling Pathway Research Unit, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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Kozgar, M.I., Wani, M.R., Khan, S., Ahmad, P. (2014). Mineral Bioavailability Through Mutation Breeding in Pulse Crops: A Review. In: Ahmad, P., Wani, M., Azooz, M., Tran, LS. (eds) Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8830-9_8

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