About this Research Topic
As the world's population is increasing day by day, it is imperative to enhance crop productivity in near future. Most of the agricultural research is hence focused on improving the yield of cultivated crops. Quality improvement of food crops is equally essential as quantity enhancement. Bio-fortification of food crops with macro and micronutrients, essential amino acids, beneficial fatty acids, or other beneficial secondary metabolites is an important area that needs attention. Research on reducing anti-nutritional compounds in food and feed crops also needs to be focused on for enhancing nutritional quality. There is a strong need to eradicate hidden hunger, for which the new crop breeding technologies can be a pathfinder.
With increasing population, life style diseases are also increasing at an alarming rate. The choice of food and food habits influence the incidence of life style diseases. Better the quality of food better will be the quality of life. The quality of food is determined by the type, content and composition of various nutrients. The hidden hunger is a serious problem, which are not monitored regularly may lead to serious illness. Similarly consuming food with undesirable composition of fatty acids, starch, anti-nutritional factors etc. can lead to deteriorating health which are noticed only at later stage which demands medication. Regular consumption of nutritionally superior food can fight hidden hunger or lifestyle diseases. Even though the primary focus of agricultural research is always on enhancing productivity of food crops, plentiful research has been undertaken for enhancing nutritional quality as well. Previous breeding technologies and biotechnological interventions could lead to the development of nutritionally superior phenotypes. However, the inheritance of undesirable traits and apprehensions associated with genetically modified crops were always been a limitation for their commercialization. However, the new genome editing technologies namely, the CRISPR/Cas technology is a great replacement for the previous technologies. With its powerful performance, CRISPR/Cas is already revolutionizing the area of crop research including nutritional quality improvement.
The Research Topic aims at showcasing the potential of new breeding techniques like genome editing to enhance nutritional quality improvement of plants which attract various topics but not limited to, enhancing the content and composition of macro and micro nutrients in plants, engineering novel beneficial metabolites having nutraceutical potential in plant systems, decreasing content of anti-nutritional compounds. Research articles not accompanied with functional data are not encouraged.
Types of articles invited include:
- Full length original research articles
- Short communications
- Reviews
- Opinion papers
With increasing population, life style diseases are also increasing at an alarming rate. The choice of food and food habits influence the incidence of life style diseases. Better the quality of food better will be the quality of life. The quality of food is determined by the type, content and composition of various nutrients. The hidden hunger is a serious problem, which are not monitored regularly may lead to serious illness. Similarly consuming food with undesirable composition of fatty acids, starch, anti-nutritional factors etc. can lead to deteriorating health which are noticed only at later stage which demands medication. Regular consumption of nutritionally superior food can fight hidden hunger or lifestyle diseases. Even though the primary focus of agricultural research is always on enhancing productivity of food crops, plentiful research has been undertaken for enhancing nutritional quality as well. Previous breeding technologies and biotechnological interventions could lead to the development of nutritionally superior phenotypes. However, the inheritance of undesirable traits and apprehensions associated with genetically modified crops were always been a limitation for their commercialization. However, the new genome editing technologies namely, the CRISPR/Cas technology is a great replacement for the previous technologies. With its powerful performance, CRISPR/Cas is already revolutionizing the area of crop research including nutritional quality improvement.
The Research Topic aims at showcasing the potential of new breeding techniques like genome editing to enhance nutritional quality improvement of plants which attract various topics but not limited to, enhancing the content and composition of macro and micro nutrients in plants, engineering novel beneficial metabolites having nutraceutical potential in plant systems, decreasing content of anti-nutritional compounds. Research articles not accompanied with functional data are not encouraged.
Types of articles invited include:
- Full length original research articles
- Short communications
- Reviews
- Opinion papers
Keywords: Genome-editing, CRISPR/Cas, biofortification, nutritional quality improvement
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