Vol. 11, Issue 10 (2022)

Author(s):
SN Darshan, C Suneetha, TS Manjunathaswamy, Kavitha TR, Sunitha TR and Krishnamma PN

Abstract:
Malnutrition is responsible for severe social and health concerns and therefore, intensifies acute anxiety throughout the world. Nutrition is the strategic element in several stratagems designed to ease the burden of diseases on a global level. The green revolution satisfied the necessity for greater yield but at the expense of quality. Today, poor people are primarily suffering from micronutrient malnutrition as they cannot afford dietary supplementation due to poverty. Hence, the production of bio fortified food crops is necessary to resolve the problem of micronutrient deficiency on a sustainable basis. Biofortification of commonly consumed food crops offers the simplest solution to complex nutritional disorders. Biofortification is the process of adding nutrients to food crops, which provides a sustainable and long-term means of delivering more micronutrients. Currently, agronomic, conventional and genetic engineering are three common approaches. Agronomic biofortification can provide temporary micronutrient increases through fertilizers. In conventional plant breeding, parent lines with high vitamin or mineral levels can be crossed over several generations to produce plants that have the desired nutrients. Genetic engineering techniques are utilised to produce new cultivars through the transfer of desirable characters from one organism to another to develop elite cultivars, thereby improving their value.