Wheat and Barley Grain Biofortification

Coordinators: Gupta Om Prakash, Pandey Vanita, Narwal Sneh, Sharma Pradeep, Ram Sewa, Pratap Singh Gyanendra

Language: English

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Wheat and Barley Grain Biofortification addresses topics associated with the alleviation of malnutrition in globally diverse populations via wheat and barley biofortification. The book synthesizes the current trends of malnutrition across the globe, the need for wheat and barley nutritional enhancement and how agronomic, microbial and molecular understanding of biofortification can help in devising significant approaches and strategies. In addition, it includes discussions on potential genetic variability available and their efficient utilization in wheat and barley for molecular breeding for nutrients, challenges and opportunities for bioavailability, and technical advancement for analysis of bioavailability.

1. The unacceptable status quo: Malnutrition challenges of the developed and developing world 2. Role of Molecular Approaches in Improving Genetic Variability of Micronutrients and their Utilization in Breeding Programs 3. Getting more micronutrients from wheat and barley through agronomic biofortification 4. Anti-nutritional factors and bioavailability: approaches, challenges and opportunities 5. A decade of progress on genetic enhancement of grain zinc and iron in CIMMYT wheat germplasm 6. Biofortification of wheat through wide hybridization and molecular breeding 7. Exploring Genetic Variability for Developing Celiac Disease Safe Wheat 8. Prospecting plant-microbe interactions for enhancing nutrient availability and grain biofortification 9. Effect of Storage and Processing Conditions on Nutrient Composition of Wheat and Barley 10. Advantage of biofortification over fortification technologies 11. Barley Biofortification: Present Status and Future prospects 12. Barley grain beta glucan enrichment: Status and opportunities 13. Biofortification for enhancing nutritional outcomes and policy imperatives

Researchers in both wheat and barley/cereal science and those exploring means of enhancing nutritional value of foods

Due to his outstanding meritorious profile, Dr. Gupta has the distinction of receiving numerous honours, fellowships and awards in recognition to his excellent academic and research contributions. He has been bestowed with Jawahar Lal Nehru Award for outstanding Doctoral thesis by ICAR, University Silver Medal, Aspee Gold Medal and Dr. Kirtikar Memorial Gold Medal during his Bachelor degree programme. Dr. Gupta has published many original research and review papers in peer reviewed international journals. He presented his research papers in several national and international symposia/ workshops/ conferences. He is also editorial board members and reviewers of many international journals. Currently he is working on identification and characterization of Fe/Zn responsive transporters genes in wheat using NGS approach and in vitro bioavailability analysis of micronutrients such as Fe and Zn in wheat grains.
Dr. Pandey’s areas of specialization are molecular biology, transgenics and plant transformation, bioinformatics tools, plant RNAi studies, proteomics, transcriptomics, microarrays and molecular markers. Dr Pandey is a part of several projects with key focus on nutritional and processing quality enhancement of wheat using biochemical and molecular approaches with major emphasis on wheat grain biofortification. Dr Pandey has worked at Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and National Institute for Plant Biotechnology and had developed tobacco transgenics and nutritionally enhanced soybean low-phytate transgenics. Publications include nine research papers, several technical bulletins, articles and book chapters.
Dr. Narwal’s main area of research is on nutritional and processing quality of wheat and barley. She has worked on the antioxidant potential and phenolic compounds in wheat and barley including the effect of various processing conditions, cooking methods and blending on these traits. She is also working on the biofortification of wheat with iro
  • Addresses the need for wheat and barley biofortification to address global nutrition demands
  • Places emphasis on the current agronomic and molecular understanding of biofortification
  • Discusses the potential utilization of genetic variability
  • Highlights the economics of biofortification over fortification technology