Mineral bioavailability through mutation breeding in pulse crops: A review
Authors: Kozgar, M.I., Wani, M.R., Khan, S. and Ahmad, P.
Pages: 191-204
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8830-9_8
Abstract:For any national food security program, crop production plays an important role to fulfill the demands of dwelling inhabitants. Induced mutagenesis is one of the important and practical fields of breeding strategies, through which the biggest accomplishments have been gained with the development of mutant varieties, especially for cereal crops, which are superior for certain useful traits like yield and minerals components. In spite of these achievements, the people of Indian subcontinent and other developing nations are facing immense scarcity of food and are in most awful condition with concomitant increase in malnutrition. In order to reduce food insecurity and malnutrition alarm, nations like India have to revitalize the policies and strategies of agriculture practices. Additionally, the research activities related to mutation breeding on other crops, especially pulses, have to be enhanced which can act as an aiding weapon to boost up the crop production. In the present review, an effort has been put forward to assess the impact of mutation breeding on crop production and mineral bioavailability enhancement in different crop plants. As mutation breeding has become the most successful field of application of nuclear techniques in food and agriculture all over the world, finishing annotations are being put in front to let the policy makers know the paybacks of enhancing mutation breeding research in crops especially pulses, of which India being the largest producer.
Source: Scopus