The biofortification of plants with iodine represents a promising strategy to alleviate micronutrient deficiencies that affect human health worldwide. By enhancing the capacity of crops to accumulate ...

An effective measure to fight nutrient deficiency is to increase the nutrient content of food, particularly staples that are cheap to produce and widely consumed. Scientists do this by breeding crop ...

Climate-resilient crops are crops that have been engineered or selected to possess specific adaptive traits that allow them to maintain yield stability and physiological fitness under intensifying ...

The Federal ministry of Agriculture and Food Security and HarvestPlus under the UKAID supported Scaling Climate Adapted Nutritious Crops in Nigeria has inaugurated the National Biofortification ...

To combat malnutrition in Nigeria, experts and stakeholders have emphasized the need for a standardized policy governing the release of biofortified maize enriched with provitamin A. Stakeholders ...

Climate change is widely regarded as an extreme treat not only for agriculture productivity but also for crop nutritional quality. Rising temperatures, more ...