Phytonutritional improvement of crops / edited by Noureddine Benkeblia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benkeblia, Noureddine, editor.

Series:

THEi Wiley ebooks.

THEi Wiley ebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food crops--Biotechnology.

Food crops.

Phytonutrients.

Plant biotechnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (638 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

System Details:

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Summary:

An in-depth treatment of cutting-edge work being done internationally to develop new techniques in crop nutritional quality improvement Phytonutritional Improvement of Crops explores recent advances in biotechnological methods for the nutritional enrichment of food crops. Featuring contributions from an international group of experts in the field, it provides cutting-edge information on techniques of immense importance to academic, professional and commercial operations. World population is now estimated to be 7.5 billion people, with an annual growth rate of nearly 1.5%. Clearly, the need to enhance not only the quantity of food produced but its quality has never been greater, especially among less developed nations. Genetic manipulation offers the best prospect for achieving that goal. As many fruit crops provide proven health benefits, research efforts need to be focused on improving the nutritional qualities of fruits and vegetables through increased synthesis of lycopene and beta carotene, anthocyanins and some phenolics known to be strong antioxidants. Despite tremendous growth in the area occurring over the past several decades, the work has only just begun. This book represents an effort to address the urgent need to promote those efforts and to mobilise the tools of biotechnical and genetic engineering of the major food crops. Topics covered include: * New applications of RNA-interference and virus induced gene silencing (VIGS) for nutritional genomics in crop plants * Biotechnological techniques for enhancing carotenoid in crops and their implications for both human health and sustainable development * Progress being made in the enrichment and metabolic profiling of diverse carotenoids in a range of fruit crops, including tomatoes, sweet potatoes and tropical fruits * Biotechnologies for boosting the phytonutritional values of key crops, including grapes and sweet potatoes * Recent progress in the development of transgenic rice engineered to massively accumulate flavonoids in-seed Phytonutritional Improvement of Crops is an important text/reference that belongs in all universities and research establishments where agriculture, horticulture, biological sciences, and food science and technology are studied, taught and applied.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Foreword

Chapter 1: Important Plant-Based Phytonutrients

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods in Human Health

1.3 Plants with Potential for Use as Nutraceutical Source and Functional Food Component

1.4 Nutraceutical Values of Fenugreek

1.5 Coloured Potatoes as Functional Food

1.6 Red Wine as Functional Food

1.7 Tea as Functional Food

1.8 Cereals as Nutraceuticals

1.9 Nutraceutical Properties of Wheat Bran and Germ

1.10 Barley and Oat as Nutraceuticals

1.11 Value-Added Products

1.12 Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

Chapter 2: Biotechnological Interventions for Improvement of Plant Nutritional Value: From Mechanisms to Applications

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Improvement of Food Nutrition

2.3 Improvement of Nutritional Value Through Crop Improvement

2.4 Identification of Genes With the Potential to Improve the Nutritional Quality

2.5 Genetic Engineering for the Introduction of Nutritionally Potential Genes

2.6 Nutritional Improvement Through Recent Biotechnological Advances

2.7 Production of Health Care Products

2.8 Major Biotechnological Advances in Nutritional Improvement of Plants

2.9 Conclusion

Chapter 3: Nutrient Biofortification of Staple Food Crops: Technologies, Products and Prospects

3.1 Introduction

3.2 The Concepts of Nutrition and Malnutrition

3.3 Strategies to Enhance Nutrient Intake and Nutrient Content of Plant Foods

3.4 Quantitative and Qualitative Modification of Dietary Carbohydrates

3.5 Quantitative and Qualitative Enhancement of Proteins and Amino Acids

3.6 Quantitative and Qualitative Enhancement of Fatty Acids in Oil Seed Crops

3.7 Enhancement of Levels of Vitamins

3.8 Enhancement of Levels of Mineral Elements.

3.9 Enhancement of Antioxidants

3.10 Mitigation of Levels of Antinutritional Factors

3.11 Conclusions and Recommendations

Acknowledgement

Chapter 4: Applications of RNA-Interference and Virus-Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) for Nutritional Genomics in Crop Plants

4.1 Introduction

4.2 RNA Interference

4.3 Virus-Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) for Biofortification

4.4 Conclusions

Chapter 5: Strategies for Enhancing Phytonutrient Content in Plant-Based Foods

5.1 Introduction

5.2 What are Phytonutrients?

5.3 Which Plant-Based Foods are the Best Known Sources of Phytonutrients?

5.4 How Can We Enhance Phytonutrients?

5.5 Phenotyping for Phytonutrients at Different Levels

5.6 The Future Ahead/Concluding Remarks

Chapter 6: The Use of Genetic Engineering to Improve the Nutritional Profile of Traditional Plant Foods

6.1 Introduction

6.2 What Are Genetically Engineered Crops?

6.3 GM Plant Foods Under Approval for Commercial Utilisation

6.4 Socioeconomic Impact and Safety of GM Foods

Chapter 7: Carotenoids: Biotechnological Improvements for Human Health and Sustainable Development

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Occurrence

7.3 Discovery and Early History

7.4 Carotenoids Use in Human Foods and Biotechnology

7.5 Use of Carotenoids in Animal Feed

7.6 Global Market Situation and Sustainability

7.7 Carotenoid Biosynthesis and Function in Plants

7.8 Conclusion and Perspectives

Chapter 8: Progress in Enrichment and Metabolic Profiling of Diverse Carotenoids in Tropical Fruits: Importance of Hyphenated Techniques

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Trends in Biosynthesis of Carotenoids and their Profiling in Plants and Tropical Fruits.

8.3 Biotechnological Approaches to Enrich Carotenoids in Tropical Fruits

8.4 Bioaccessibility and Bioavailability of Carotenoids From Fruits and Their Products

8.5 Techniques to Characterise Carotenoids from Fruits

8.6 Conclusion

Chapter 9: Improvement of Carotenoid Accumulation in Tomato Fruit

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Metabolism of Carotenoid in Tomato

9.3 The Biosynthetic Capacities of the Plastid

9.4 Hormonal Regulatory Network of Carotenoid Metabolism

9.5 Environmental Regulation of Carotenoid Metabolism

9.6 Bioavailability of Carotenoid

9.7 Food Omics

Chapter 10: Modern Biotechnologies and Phytonutritional Improvement of Grape and Wine

10.1 Grape Genomics

10.2 Marker Assisted Selection (MAS) and Genomic Selection (GS) of Grapevine

10.3 Engineered Resistance to Viruses

10.4 Diagnosis of Grapevine Viruses

10.5 Phytonutritional Compounds with Biological Activity in Grape and Wine and Their Target Analyses

10.6 Wine Quality

10.7 Grapevine Genetic Resources- Prospects in Management and Sustainable Use

Chapter 11: Phytonutrient Improvements of Sweetpotato

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Nutritional Qualities of Sweetpotato

11.3 Phytonutrient Improvements of Sweetpotato

11.4 Conclusion and Future Perspectives

Chapter 12: Improvement of Glucosinolate in Cruciferous Crops

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Glucosinolate Breakdown

12.3 Biological Functions of Glucosinolates and Their Hydrolysis Products

12.4 Glucosinolate Biosynthesis

12.5 Metabolic Engineering of Glucosinolates in Brassica Crops

12.6 Glucosinolate Accumulation under Pre-Harvest and Post-Harvest Handlings

12.7 Conclusions and Future Prospects

References.

Chapter 13: Development of the Transgenic Rice Accumulating Flavonoids in Seed by Metabolic Engineering

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Production of Flavonoids in Rice Seed by Ectopic Expression of the Biosynthetic Enzymes

13.3 Production of Flavonoids in Rice Seed by Ectopic Expression of the Transcription Factors

13.4 Characterisation of Flavonoids in Transgenic Rice Seed by LC-MS-based Metabolomics

13.5 Future Prospects

Chapter 14: Nutrient Management for High Efficiency Sweetpotato Production

14.1 Patterns of Growth and Development and Nutrient Absorption in Sweetpotato

14.2 Screening of High Efficient of Potassium Uptake and Utilised Genotypes

14.3 Effect of Fertilisers

14.4 Balanced Fertiliser Management in Sweetpotato at Sishui, Shandong: A Case Study

14.5 Application of Fertilisers Through Drip Irrigation ('Fertigation')

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119079996

1119079993

9781119079989

1119079985

9781119079972

1119079977

OCLC:

981908099