Vol. 11, Issue 7 (2022)

Author(s):
Miraan Mallick, Bijendra Kumar, Shiv Prakash Shrivastav, Sayan Sau, Shaibal Bandopadhyay and Biplob Dey

Abstract:
Maize is one of the most important staple crops to the world especially in the areas like Sub Saharan Africa and South East Asia. Despite of that much importance in the daily diet of some part of the population, it lacks Tryptophan and Lysine, which causes malnutrition, disease like Kwashiorkor and impaired development of skeleton. So, to eradicate this problem the process of bio-fortification is needed. CIMMYT plays a great role in that, to produce the maize varieties with good content of lysine and tryptophan along with other desirable agronomic characters like hard kernel and good yield potential. This process of bio-fortification is the result of using the mutant opaque 2. This new type of maize is also very easily replaceable because of its same phenotypic appearance to the normal maize. It also shows good result in the nutrition profile of the children in places like Ghana and Ethiopia.