"Biofortification" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Improving the NUTRITIONAL VALUE of plant foods by augmenting the plant's environment, by using PLANT BREEDING, or by GENETIC ENGINEERING plants to increase their ability to synthesize VITAMINS or uptake essential NUTRIENTS from the soil.
| Descriptor ID |
D000072759
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| MeSH Number(s) |
J01.040.227.250
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| Concept/Terms |
Biofortified Crops- Biofortified Crops
- Biofortified Crop
- Crop, Biofortified
- Crops, Biofortified
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| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Biofortification" by people in Profiles.
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Stacking disease resistance and mineral biofortification in cassava varieties to enhance yields and consumer health. Plant Biotechnol J. 2021 04; 19(4):844-854.
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Genetically Modified Plants: Nutritious, Sustainable, yet Underrated. J Nutr. 2020 10 12; 150(10):2628-2634.
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Biofortification of field-grown cassava by engineering expression of an iron transporter and ferritin. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 02; 37(2):144-151.