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Author:   Noureddine Benkeblia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9781119511113

ISBN 10:   1119511119
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   02 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors vii Foreword xi 1 Biofortification of Edible Plants: Set the Stage for Better Nutrition 1 Noureddine Benkeblia 2 Food Fortification: What’s in It for the Malnourished World? 27 Barbara Poniedziałek, Kinga Perkowska, and Piotr Rzymski 3 Modern Biotechnologies and Mineral Biofortification of Edible Crops 45 Noureddine Benkeblia and Kathleen L. Hefferon 4 Biotechnologies and Vitamins Biofortification of Edible Crops 71 Noureddine Benkeblia and Kathleen L. Hefferon 5 Carotenoids Biofortification of Sweet Potatoes 87 Noureddine Benkeblia, Elisabete M. Pinto, and Marta W. Vasconcelos 6 Improving Iron Nutrition in Plant Foods: The Role of Legumes and Soil Microbes 103 Mariana Roriz, Marta Barros, Paula M. L. Castro, Susana M. P. Carvalho, and Marta W. Vasconcelos 7 Biofortification of Carotenoids in Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: A Promising Strategy to Target Vitamin A Malnutrition 123 Hulikere Jagdish Shwetha, Shivaprasad Shilpa, Bangalore Prabhashankar Arathi, Marisiddaiah Raju, and Rangaswamy Lakshminarayana 8 Agronomic Biofortification from a Stakeholder’s Viewpoint: Evidence from Studies on Iodine-Enriched Foods in Uganda 163 Solomon Olum, Joshua Wesana, Walter Odongo, Joseph Mogendi, Collins Okello, Dominic Webale, Anselimo Makokha, Duncan Ongeng, Xavier Gellynck, and Hans De Steur 9 Biofortification of Cereals through Foliar Application of Minerals 191 Shahid Hussain, Ayta Umar, Mamoona Amir, and Muhammad Aon 10 NAS Overexpression and Rice Zinc Biofortification: An Insight, Current Knowledge, and Outlook 223 Yuta Kawakami and Navreet K. Bhullar Index 235

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NOUREDDINE BENKEBLIA is a Professor of Crop Science at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, focusing on food-plants biochemistry and physiology. His work is mainly devoted to the metabolome and the metabolism in crops.

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