Vitamins and Minerals Biofortification of Edible Plants

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.

• List of Contributors viiForeword xi1 Biofortification of Edible Plants: Set the Stage for Better Nutrition 1Noureddine Benkeblia2 Food Fortification: What’s in It for the Malnourished World? 27Barbara Poniedziałek, Kinga Perkowska, and Piotr Rzymski3 Modern Biotechnologies and Mineral Biofortification of Edible Crops 45Noureddine Benkeblia and Kathleen L. Hefferon4 Biotechnologies and Vitamins Biofortification of Edible Crops 71Noureddine Benkeblia and Kathleen L. Hefferon5 Carotenoids Biofortification of Sweet Potatoes 87Noureddine Benkeblia, Elisabete M. Pinto, and Marta W. Vasconcelos6 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. Vasconcelos7 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 Lakshminarayana8 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 Steur9 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. BhullarIndex 235