Breeding for micronutrients in staple food crops from a human nutrition perspective.

By Ross M. Welch, R. Graham. Journal of Experimental Botany, 2004

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Molecular genetic approaches to increasing mineral availability and vitamin content of cereals (2007, background): “At present, 49 nutritional components are known to be essential and indispensable for sustaining human life (Welch and Graham, 2004).”
Iron and zinc grain density in common wheat grown in Central Asia (2007, background): “It is estimated that two billion people worldwide suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, especially children and women (Cakmak et al. 2002; Welch and Graham 2004).”
A review of zinc nutrition and plant breeding. (2013, background): “Zn deficiency is a severe micronutrient deficiency that threatens world food production (Alloway, 2001; Welch and Graham, 2004).”
Roots of the Second Green Revolution (2007, background): “Exploitation of this variation is part of a major international effort to breed staple foods with greater micronutrient density (‘HarvestPlus’: www.harvestplus.org) to address global micronutrient deficiencies in the human diet (Welch and Graham 2004).”
Biofortification strategies to increase grain zinc and iron concentrations in wheat (2014, neutral): “…very strong correlation between grain Zn and grain protein was also shown previously (Peterson et al., 1986; Feil and Fossati, 1995), indicating that grain Zn, Fe, and protein might have the same genetic base to some extent, and could be simultaneously improved by breeding (Welch and Graham, 2004).”
Concentration and localization of zinc during seed development and germination in wheat (2006, background): “breeding, application of fertilizers) seem to be the most promising and sustainable solution to the Zn deficiency problem (Cakmak et al., 2002; Welch and Graham, 2004; White and Broadley, 2005).”
Inheritance of seed iron and zinc concentrations in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) (2009, background): “…concentrations observed in this study were similar to those in previous analyses of common beans (Beebe et al. 2000; Islam et al. 2002; House et al. 2002; Welch et al. 2000) and confirm the relatively high nutritional value of common beans compared to the milled cereals (Welch and Graham 2004).”
Iron transport, deposition and bioavailability in the wheat and barley grain (2009, background): “This is in particular a problem for human populations where plants, due to poverty, serve as the main dietary source of essential minerals (Grotz and Guerinot 2006; Welch and Graham 2004).”
Multiple QTL‐effects of wheat Gpc‐B1 locus on grain protein and micronutrient concentrations (2007, background): “…malnutrition, and particularly deficiency in Zn and Fe, afflicts over three billion people worldwide, particularly in developing countries (Welch and Graham 2004), resulting in overall poor health, anemia, increased morbidity and mortality rates and lower worker productivity (Black 2003,…”
Grain concentrations of protein and mineral nutrients in a large collection of spelt wheat grown under different environments (2010, background): “Cereals do not only contain relatively low levels of Zn and Fe, but are also rich in compounds limiting bioavailability of Zn and Fe in the body, such as phytate and fibre (Welch and Graham, 2004).”
Winter Wheat Grain Quality, Zinc and Iron Concentration Affected by a Combined Foliar Spray of Zinc and Iron Fertilizers (2019, background): “Moreover, Fe deficiency affects more than two billion individuals, or one in three people globally [7,8], while about 30% of people in developing countries and 10% of Americans and Canadians are Zn deficient [9].”