Improving Nutritional Quality by Altering Concentrations of Enhancing Factors Using Induced Mutation and Biotechnology in Crops, D2.30.28

摘要

Food security, nutrition and health are key issues in the national agenda of government planning in many countries in the world. In addition to forming the major components of human diets, providing the required calories and nutrients to sustain life, edible crops also contain most of the essential vitamins and minerals required to prevent common micronutrient deficiency disorders. As the major staple crops are often deficient in some of these vitamins and minerals, in many areas of the world the basic monotonous diet does not provide them in sufficient quantities.