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- Title
Induced mutations for enhancing nutrition and food production.
- Authors
Mohan Jain, S.; Suprasanna, P.
- Abstract
Issues of enhanced food security depend primarily on increasing agricultural production. Given this challenge, existing and new, appropriate technologies need to be integrated into agricultural research, to focus on the problems related to improving nutritional security. Among the different approaches, mutagenesis and the isolation of improved or novel phenotypes in conjunction with conventional breeding programmes can result in mutant varieties endowed with desirable traits. Induced mutations play an important role enhancing nutritional quality in crop plants. Several mutant genes have been successfully introduced into commercial crop varieties that significantly enhance the nutritional value of crops. This review briefly outlines the aspects of induced mutations and nutritional quality in crop improvement.
- Subjects
FOOD production; NUTRITION; AGRICULTURAL productivity; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; PHENOTYPES; MUTAGENESIS; FOOD security
- Publication
Gene Conserve, 2011, Vol 10, Issue 41, p201
- ISSN
1808-1878
- Publication type
Article