The zinc biofortification component is an important new innovation. Biofortification is the process of growing crops to increase nutritional value from the seed on, Di Gioia explained. It is different ...

Biofortification of root crops has emerged as a pivotal strategy to address global micronutrient deficiencies by enhancing the concentrations of essential vitamins and minerals within staple tubers ...

Biofortification encompasses a suite of interventions aimed at increasing the density and bioavailability of essential micronutrients—such as iron, zinc, provitamin A and calcium—in staple cereal ...

Biofortification, the process of increasing the micronutrient content of a food crop through selective breeding, genetic modification, or enriched fertilizers, was first proposed in the 1990s as a low ...

A series of research papers and a free online data dashboard seek to boost the use of biofortification—an affordable, sustainable and climate-smart way to address global malnutrition by increasing the ...

Biofortification is a set of approaches to boost nutrients in food that have been lost due to industrial agriculture practices. Biofortification risks making our current industrial agriculture system ...

Researchers have discovered the genetic sequencing behind two mutations in peas responsible for high iron content. This discovery could aid future research into improving biofortification. Using a ...

Indonesia, Philippines, Pakistan, Malaysia, China, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Japan, Myanmar, Viet Nam, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Republic of Korea, Mongolia, Nepal ...

Hugo Campos is roots, tubers and banana breeding lead at CGIAR, the world’s largest publicly funded agriculture research organization. Anemia remains one of the most rampant yet preventable childhood ...

The Federal ministry of Agriculture and Food Security and HarvestPlus under the UKAID supported Scaling Climate Adapted Nutritious Crops in Nigeria has inaugurated the National Biofortification ...

Climate-resilient crops are crops that have been engineered or selected to possess specific adaptive traits that allow them to maintain yield stability and physiological fitness under intensifying ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — When the seeds of plants such as pea and sunflower are biofortified with zinc, the seedlings they quickly produce — harvested as microgreens — could both help to mitigate global ...