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A Review of Important QTLs for Biofortification Traits in Rice
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: Received: 10 December 2019 / Approved: 12 December 2019 / Online: 12 December 2019 (03:52:07 CET)
How to cite: Sharma, V.; Saini, D. K.; Kumar, A.; Kaushik, P. A Review of Important QTLs for Biofortification Traits in Rice. Preprints 2019, 2019120158. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201912.0158.v1 Sharma, V.; Saini, D. K.; Kumar, A.; Kaushik, P. A Review of Important QTLs for Biofortification Traits in Rice. Preprints 2019, 2019120158. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201912.0158.v1
Abstract
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) supplies nourishment to about half of the population of the world's inhabitants. Of them, more than 2 billion people suffer from "hidden hunger" in which they are unable to meet the recommended nutrients or micronutrients from their daily dietary intake. Bio-fortification refers to developing micronutrient-rich diet foods using traditional breeding methods and modern biotechnology, a promising approach to nutrition enrichment as part of an integrated strategy for food systems. To improve the profile of rice grain for the biofortification related traits, understanding the genetics of important biofortification traits is required. Moreover, these attributes are quantitative in nature and are influenced by several genes and environmental variables. In the course of past decades, several endeavours such, as finding the important quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for improving the nutrient profile of rice seeds were successfully undertaken. In this review, we have presented the information regarding the QTLs identified for the biofortification traits in the rice.
Keywords
QTLs; biofortification; malnutrition; hidden hunger; marker-assisted breeding
Subject
Biology and Life Sciences, Agricultural Science and Agronomy
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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