Global Perspectives on Agriculture: Food Security and Nutrition

Increasing global demands for food have necessitated a comprehensive and informed approach to meet food and nutritional security. Agricultural policies framed a few decades back were aimed at the production and availability of surplus staple food crops. G

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ances in Agri-Food Biotechnology

Advances in Agri-Food Biotechnology

Tilak Raj Sharma • Rupesh Deshmukh • Humira Sonah Editors

Advances in Agri-Food Biotechnology

Editors Tilak Raj Sharma Department of Agriculture Biotechnology National Agri-Food Biotechnology Mohali, Punjab, India

Rupesh Deshmukh Department of Agriculture Biotechnology National Agri-Food Biotechnology Mohali, Punjab, India

Division of Crop Science Indian Council of Agricultural Research New Delhi, India Humira Sonah Department of Agriculture Biotechnology National Agri-Food Biotechnology Mohali, Punjab, India

ISBN 978-981-15-2873-6 ISBN 978-981-15-2874-3 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2874-3

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Global Perspectives on Agriculture: Food Security and Nutrition . . . Nitika Rana, Ruchi Bansal, Shiwani Sharma, Yogesh Sharma, Humira Sonah, Rupesh Deshmukh, and Tilak Raj Sharma

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Advanced Approaches for Biofortification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kanti Kiran

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Biofortification for Nutrient Content and Aroma Enrichment in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sonali Chandanshive, Yasmin Shaikh, Gaurav Raturi, Atul Prakash Sathe, Sandhya Sanand, and Altafhusain Nadaf

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Biofortification in Pulses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Satveer Kaur, Anita Kumari, Pargat Singh, Lovenpreet Kaur, Natasha Sharma, and Monika Garg

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Biofortification of Vegetables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Milan Kumar Lal, Awadhesh Kumar, Hemant Balasaheb Kardile,