HarvestPlus: Breeding Crops for Better Nutrition

By W. Pfeiffer, B. Mcclafferty. 2007

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Evaluation of Dry Matter, Protein, Starch, Sucrose, β-carotene, Iron, Zinc, Calcium, and Magnesium in East African Sweetpotato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam] Germplasm (2011, methodology): “Also the technology has become a standard fast screening method for mirconutrients (provitamins A, Fe, and Zn) (Pfeiffer and McClafferty, 2007, Zum Felde et al., 2009).”
QTL mapping for grain zinc and iron concentrations and zinc efficiency in a tetraploid and hexaploid wheat mapping populations (2017, background): “Micronutrient concentrations are very low in commonly consumed cereal based diets and their bioavailability is also significantly affected by dietary factors (Pfeiffer and McClafferty 2007; Cakmak 2008).”
Formation of Heterotic Groups and Understanding Genetic Effects in a Provitamin A Biofortified Maize Breeding Program (2014, background): “org 15 high biologically useful concentrations of provitamin A carotenoids in the grain is regarded as a key approach toward alleviating VAD in these regions (Ortiz-Monasterio et al., 2007; Pfeiffer and McClafferty, 2007).”
The potential of lentil (Lens culinaris L.) as a whole food for increased selenium, iron, and zinc intake: preliminary results from a 3 year study (2011, background): “Biofortification may increase both the concentration of essential micronutrients and their bioavailable forms in staple food crops through conventional plant breeding and modern biotechnology (Pfeiffer and McClafferty 2007; Welch and Graham 2002; White and Broadley 2005).”
Managing the Nutrition of Plants and People (2012, positive): “There is sufficient natural genetic variation in the concentrations of mineral elements commonly lacking in human diets in the edible tissues of most crop species to breed for increased concentrations of mineral elements in edible tissues [14, 27, 118, 126] and also scope for targeted GM of crops [1”
Biofortification of crops with seven mineral elements often lacking in human diets--iron, zinc, copper, calcium, magnesium, selenium and iodine. (2009, background): “…to acquire mineral elements, is advocated as an immediate strategy not only to increase mineral concentrations in edible crops but also to improve yields on infertile soils (Graham et al., 2001, 2007; Bouis et al., 2003; Genc et al., 2005; White & Broadley, 2005a; Pfeiffer & McClafferty, 2007).”
Mechanism of Zinc absorption in plants: uptake, transport, translocation and accumulation (2016, background): “Furthermore, 1.8–6.6 fold variation in seed Zn concentrations in large core collections of legume germplasm has also been demonstrated (Grusak and Cakmak 2005; Pfeiffer and McClafferty 2007).”
The importance of minerals in human nutrition: Bioavailability, food fortification, processing effects and nanoencapsulation (2017, positive): “…mineral bioforti ﬁ cation works have beenperformed via conventional breeding based on the application of transgenic technology, breeding pipelines using standard varieties and non-genetically modi ﬁ ed organism methods are used to form the ﬁ rst delivery products (Pfeiffer & McClafferty, 2007).”
Variation in melon (Cucumis melo) landraces adapted to the humid tropics of southern India (2011, background): “Microenvironment variation for minerals, particularly Zn has been reported (Pfeiffer and McClafferty 2007).”