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An Overview on Management of Micronutrients Deficiency in Plants Through Biofortification: A Solution of Hidden Hunger

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Nowadays, malnutrition is one of the major problems, especially for the poor population of developing countries. The major staple crops are found to be deficient in some mineral elements, especially the micronutrients that result in the problem of hidden hunger. There are several promising strategies that are applied in agricultural fields to solve this problem. They enhance the bio-available concentrations of micronutrients in edible crops. One of the recent strategy is biofortification, which can be used to increase the content and/or bioavailability of vital nutrients in food crops through genetic (genetic transformation/plant breeding) and agronomic pathways (application of nutrient fertilizers). These strategies provide more nutritious diets to more people. Along with the traditional agricultural practices, the “omics” technologies can modify the crops by genetic transformation that improves the uptake, transport, and mineral accumulation in hybrid plants. This chapter has detail information about the nutrient constituents and its uptake in the plants along with a critical comparison of the several strategies that have been developed to enhance mineral levels and bioavailability of micronutrients in most of the important food crops. The use of biofortified crops should be promoted by educating the farmers by government agencies, so that they can be included in their diet to solve the problem of malnutrition up to certain extent.

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We are very grateful to The Head, Department of Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi for providing necessary facilities. The University Grants Commission, New Delhi is thankfully acknowledged for providing financial assistant to Dr. A. Singh as PI [F.30-431/2018(BSR)].

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Yadav, P.K., Singh, A., Agrawal, S.B. (2020). An Overview on Management of Micronutrients Deficiency in Plants Through Biofortification: A Solution of Hidden Hunger. In: Mishra, K., Tandon, P.K., Srivastava, S. (eds) Sustainable Solutions for Elemental Deficiency and Excess in Crop Plants. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8636-1_8

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