Folate Biofortification in Soybean: Challenges and Prospects

Folate deficiency is a significant global health issue that affects millions of people and causes severe adverse effects. Major staple crops, which provide amounts calories, often contain inadequate folate levels. Synthetic fortification has contributed to reduction in low-folate populations, but more sustainable solution needed. Biofortification, or the breeding crops naturally increase their nutrient content, promising alternative. Soybean highly nutritious crop good candidate for biofortification. However, studies on have been limited due challenges analysis. The development sensitive selective tools, reference materials, stability vitamers facilitated improved determination methods. Additionally, soybean biofortification program can be by leveraging previous major cereals, common bean pea, as well combining conventional with new genomics approaches. In this review, we discuss composition, analytical suggest possible frameworks strategies soybean. We also conducted an silico analysis key biosynthesis enzymes