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Molecular breeding for nutritionally enriched maize: status and prospects

dc.contributor.authorPrasanna, B.M.
dc.contributor.authorPalacios-Rojas, N.
dc.contributor.authorHossain, F.
dc.contributor.authorMuthusamy, V.
dc.contributor.authorMenkir, A.
dc.contributor.authorDhliwayo, T.
dc.contributor.authorNdhlela, T.
dc.contributor.authorSan Vicente, F.
dc.contributor.authorNair, S.K.
dc.contributor.authorVivek, B.S.
dc.contributor.authorZhang, X.
dc.contributor.authorOlsen, M.
dc.contributor.authorFan, X.
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-19T11:28:07Z
dc.date.available2020-05-19T11:28:07Z
dc.date.issued2020-02-21
dc.identifier.citationPrasanna, B.M., Palacios Rojas, N., Hossain, F., Muthusamy, V., Menkir, A., Dhliwayo, T., ... & Zhang, X. (2020). Molecular breeding for nutritionally enriched maize: status and prospects. Frontiers in Genetics, 10: 1392, 1-16..
dc.identifier.issn1664-8021
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/6831
dc.description.abstractMaize is a major source of food security and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Latin America, and the Caribbean, and is among the top three cereal crops in Asia. Yet, maize is deficient in certain essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals. Biofortified maize cultivars enriched with essential minerals and vitamins could be particularly impactful in rural areas with limited access to diversified diet, dietary supplements, and fortified foods. Significant progress has been made in developing, testing, and deploying maize cultivars biofortified with quality protein maize (QPM), provitamin A, and kernel zinc. In this review, we outline the status and prospects of developing nutritionally enriched maize by successfully harnessing conventional and molecular marker-assisted breeding, highlighting the need for intensification of efforts to create greater impacts on malnutrition in maize-consuming populations, especially in the low- and middle-income countries. Molecular marker-assisted selection methods are particularly useful for improving nutritional traits since conventional breeding methods are relatively constrained by the cost and throughput of nutritional trait phenotyping.
dc.description.sponsorshipHarvestPlus
dc.description.sponsorshipCGIAR Research Program on Maize
dc.description.sponsorshipIndian Council of Agricultural Research
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectMaize
dc.subjectFood Security
dc.subjectConsumption
dc.subjectPopulation
dc.subjectQuality
dc.subjectProteins
dc.titleMolecular breeding for nutritionally enriched maize: status and prospects
dc.typeJournal Article
cg.contributor.crpMaize
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
cg.contributor.affiliationIndian Agricultural Research Institute
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationYunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionAfrica South of Sahara
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionCaribbean
cg.coverage.regionLatin America
cg.coverage.hubHeadquarters and Western Africa Hub
cg.researchthemeBiotech and Plant Breeding
cg.identifier.bibtexciteidPRASANNA:2020
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.iitasubjectAgronomy
cg.iitasubjectFood Security
cg.iitasubjectMaize
cg.iitasubjectNutrition
cg.iitasubjectPlant Genetic Resources
cg.iitasubjectPlant Health
cg.journalFrontiers in Genetics
cg.notesOpen Access Journal
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
cg.reviewstatusPeer Review
cg.usagerightslicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 0.0)
cg.targetaudienceScientists
cg.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2019.01392
cg.iitaauthor.identifierAbebe Menkir: 0000-0002-5907-9177


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