Table of Contents
List of Contributors vii
Foreword xi
1 Biofortification of Edible Plants: Set the Stage for Better Nutrition 1Noureddine Benkeblia
2 Food Fortification: What’s in It for the Malnourished World? 27Barbara Poniedziałek, Kinga Perkowska, and Piotr Rzymski
3 Modern Biotechnologies and Mineral Biofortification of Edible Crops 45Noureddine Benkeblia and Kathleen L. Hefferon
4 Biotechnologies and Vitamins Biofortification of Edible Crops 71Noureddine Benkeblia and Kathleen L. Hefferon
5 Carotenoids Biofortification of Sweet Potatoes 87Noureddine Benkeblia, Elisabete M. Pinto, and Marta W. Vasconcelos
6 Improving Iron Nutrition in Plant Foods: The Role of Legumes and Soil Microbes 103Mariana 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 123Hulikere 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 163Solomon 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 191Shahid Hussain, Ayta Umar, Mamoona Amir, and Muhammad Aon10 NAS Overexpression and Rice Zinc Biofortification: An Insight, Current Knowledge, and Outlook 223Yuta Kawakami and Navreet K. Bhullar
Index 235