Biofortification—Advances in Functional Food Research
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Physiology and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 5483
Special Issue Editor
Interests: trees; dendroremediation; phytoremediation; phytoextraction; arsenic; environmental pollution; speciation; analytical chemistry
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Dear Colleagues,
There is no doubt that our health depends largely on the quality of the food we eat. When it lacks some critical macro or micronutrients, we start to get sick. Plant-based foods may not contain enough minerals. One reason for the low content of nutrients in plants is the deficiency of these nutrients in the soils where crops are grown. This deficiency results from the removal of elements with plants' yield, insufficient fertilization, and limitation of the introduction of ingredients into the environment from industrial sources. Elements present in soils can also occur in forms that are difficult to absorb and inaccessible to plants. Growing crops with high yields is also not conducive to the accumulation of large amounts of elements.
One of the promising ways to enrich our diet with specific elements is biofortification. It is one of the methods of plant breeding and production, the task of which is to enhance the nutritional value of the product by supplementing it with bioavailable nutrients such as calcium (Ca), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), iodine (I), magnesium (Mg), selenium (Se) or zinc (Zn) which are present in the natural human diet in a small amount. In other words, it is a food that has an additional positive effect on health over and above the biological nutritional value. Eating these improved foods aims to reduce the occurrence of diseases caused by elemental deficiencies.
Therefore, in this special issue, articles (original research papers, perspectives, hypotheses, opinions, reviews, modelling approaches and methods) that focus on biofortification and production of functional food like whole plant studies, field trials and agronomics in model plants, crop plants, trees, aquatic plants, native species and mushrooms are most welcome.
Dr. Sylwia Budzynska
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biofortification
- functional food
- diet enrichment
- nutritional value
- supplementation
- elemental deficiencies
