Phytic Acid and Mineral Biofortification Strategies

Two billion people worldwide, mainly in developing countries, where diets are based on the consumption of staple crops, suffer from mineral deficiencies, particularly for iron and zinc. Mineral biofortification includes different strategies aimed to increase mineral concentration and to improve mine...

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description Two billion people worldwide, mainly in developing countries, where diets are based on the consumption of staple crops, suffer from mineral deficiencies, particularly for iron and zinc. Mineral biofortification includes different strategies aimed to increase mineral concentration and to improve mineral availability from the diet (mineral bioavailability) in the edible parts of plants, particularly the seeds. Phytic acid is a compound that strongly reduces mineral bioavailability as, being highly negatively charged, it strongly binds cations, acting as a magnet. All the contributions in this book aim to describe new results, review the literature, and comment on some of the economic and sociological aspects concerning mineral biofortification research. A number of contributions are related to the study of mineral transport, seed accumulation, and approaches to increase seed micronutrient concentration. The remaining ones are mainly focused on the study of low phytic acid mutants.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-688462024-03-28T03:33:10Z Phytic Acid and Mineral Biofortification Strategies Cominelli, Eleonora Sparvoli, Francesca Pilu, Roberto thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences Two billion people worldwide, mainly in developing countries, where diets are based on the consumption of staple crops, suffer from mineral deficiencies, particularly for iron and zinc. Mineral biofortification includes different strategies aimed to increase mineral concentration and to improve mineral availability from the diet (mineral bioavailability) in the edible parts of plants, particularly the seeds. Phytic acid is a compound that strongly reduces mineral bioavailability as, being highly negatively charged, it strongly binds cations, acting as a magnet. All the contributions in this book aim to describe new results, review the literature, and comment on some of the economic and sociological aspects concerning mineral biofortification research. A number of contributions are related to the study of mineral transport, seed accumulation, and approaches to increase seed micronutrient concentration. The remaining ones are mainly focused on the study of low phytic acid mutants. 2021-05-01T15:30:36Z 2021-05-01T15:30:36Z 2020 book ONIX_20210501_9783039362028_592 9783039362028 9783039362035 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68846 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2612 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2612 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-03936-203-5 10.3390/books978-3-03936-203-5 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783039362028 9783039362035 194 Basel, Switzerland open access
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Phytic Acid and Mineral Biofortification Strategies
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