New Insights into Vegetable Biofortification
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Vegetable Production Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 1608
Special Issue Editors
Interests: vegetable breeding; biotic stress in vegetables; abiotic stress in vegetables
Interests: biotechnology; biofortification; vegetables
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Vegetable biofortification is a strategy used to increase the content of micronutrients and bioactives without adding additives. The consumption of vegetables is essential to human life and survival, capable of filling nutritional deficiencies and preventing diseases, in addition to improving public health. Allied to this observation, there is a global population increase, which together with malnutrition reflects current levels of food security. The scientific knowledge detailed in this Special Issue can be applied to the design of policies and mitigation strategies in relation to eradicating hunger, improving nutrition, and ensuring food security, as advocated by the Sustainable Development Goals. In this context, all precision techniques capable of improving the time and resources used to obtain and select biofortified vegetables are important. This Special Issue proposes the following themes:
- Specific metabolic pathways for vegetable biofortification;
- Biofortified vegetables with agronomic potential;
- New biofortified vegetable cultivars;
- Metabolism of the antioxidant system in vegetables;
- Mineral biofortification in vegetables;
- Economical technologies for improving the nutritional values of vegetables;
- Genome editing aimed at the biofortification of vegetables;
- New technologies applied to the development and evaluation of biofortified vegetables;
- Image phenotyping for the selection of biofortified vegetables.
Prof. Dr. Gabriel M. Maciel
Prof. Dr. Ana Carolina S. Siquieroli
Prof. Dr. Douglas José Marques
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vegetables
- food
- nutrition
- functional agriculture
