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- Title
Omics Technologies to Enhance Plant Based Functional Foods: An Overview.
- Authors
Nayak, Spurthi N.; Aravind, B.; Malavalli, Sachin S.; Sukanth, B. S.; Poornima, R.; Bharati, Pushpa; Hefferon, Kathleen; Kole, Chittaranjan; Puppala, Naveen
- Abstract
Functional foods are natural products of plants that have health benefits beyond necessary nutrition. Functional foods are abundant in fruits, vegetables, spices, beverages and some are found in cereals, millets, pulses and oilseeds. Efforts to identify functional foods in our diet and their beneficial aspects are limited to few crops. Advances in sequencing and availability of different omics technologies have given opportunity to utilize these tools to enhance the functional components of the foods, thus ensuring the nutritional security. Integrated omics approaches including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics coupled with artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches can be used to improve the crops. This review provides insights into omics studies that are carried out to find the active components and crop improvement by enhancing the functional compounds in different plants including cereals, millets, pulses, oilseeds, fruits, vegetables, spices, beverages and medicinal plants. There is a need to characterize functional foods that are being used in traditional medicines, as well as utilization of this knowledge to improve the staple foods in order to tackle malnutrition and hunger more effectively.
- Subjects
ARTIFICIAL intelligence; PLANT products; CROP improvement; MEDICINAL plants; FUNCTIONAL beverages; NATURAL products; HUNGER; MALNUTRITION
- Publication
Frontiers in Genetics, 2021, Vol 12, p1
- ISSN
1664-8021
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3389/fgene.2021.742095