Nutritionally Enhanced Food Crops; Progress and Perspectives
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Nutritionally Enhanced Food Crops; Progress and Perspectives
Great progress has been made over the past decade with respect to the application of biotechnology to generate nutritionally improved food crops. Biofortified staple crops such as rice, maize and wheat harboring essential micronutrients to benefit the world's poor are under development as well as new varieties of crops which have the ability to combat chronic disease. This review discusses the ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Molecular Sciences
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1422-0067
DOI: 10.3390/ijms16023895