Climate change during the last 40 years has had a serious impact on agriculture and
threatens global food and nutritional security. From over half a million plant species, cereals …

Maize 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 …

Increasing demand for nutritious, safe, and healthy food because of a growing population,
and the pledge to maintain biodiversity and other resources, pose a major challenge to …

Improved genotypes developed by plant breeding remain pivotal to global food security. In
the wake of ever-increasing human population, declining agricultural resources and the …

Development of vitamin A-rich cereals can help in alleviating the widespread problem of
vitamin A deficiency. We report here significant enhancement of kernel β-carotene in elite …

Traditional yellow maize though contains high kernel carotenoids, the concentration of
provitamin A (proA) is quite low (< 2 μg/g), compared to recommended level (15 μg/g). It also …

Lysine and tryptophan are two essential amino acids and these are deficit in maize grain
thus posing the problem of nutritional deficiencies in the consumers. A wide range of …

Maize is a valuable source of food and feed worldwide. Maize endosperm protein is,
however nutritionally poor due to the reduced levels of two essential amino acids, lysine and …

Zn deficiency is one of the leading health problems in children and women of developing
countries. Different interventions could be used to overcome malnutrition, but biofortification …

Maize (Zea mays L.) is the third most important crop of country after rice and wheat and is
cultivated round the year. Its grain is used as feed, food and industrial raw material …