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Microbial-assisted and genomic-assisted breeding: a two way approach for the improvement of nutritional quality traits in agricultural crops

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Both human and animals, for their nutritional requirements, mainly rely on the plant-based foods, which provide a wide range of nutrients. Minerals, proteins, vitamins are among the nutrients which are essential and need to be available in adequate amount in edible portion of the staple crops. Increasing nutritional content in staple crops either through agronomic biofortification or through conventional plant-breeding strategies continue to be a huge task for scientists around the globe. Although some success has been achieved in recent past, in most cases, we have fallen short of expected targets. To maximize the nutrient uptake and partitioning to different economic part of plants, scientists have employed and tailored several biofortification strategies. But in present agricultural and environmental concerns, these approaches are not much effective. Henceforth, we are highlighting the recent developments and promising aspects of microbial-assisted and genomic-assisted breeding as candidate biofortification approach, that have contributed significantly in increasing nutritional content in grains of different crops. The methods used to date to accomplish nutrient enrichment with recently emerging strategies that we believe could be the most promising and holistic approach for future biofortification program. Results are encouraging, but for future perspective, the existing knowledge about the strategies needs to be confined. Concerted scientific investment are required to widen up these biofortification strategies, so that it could play an important role in ensuring nutritional security of ever-growing population in growing agricultural and environmental constraints.

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Authors acknowledge G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttrakhand, India for providing all the necessary facilities and Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi for providing financial support.

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  1. Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, College of Basic Sciences and Humanities, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttrakhand, 263145, India

    Ajay Kumar Chandra, Rini Joshi & Aparna Agrawal

  2. Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Birsa Agricultural University, Kanke, Ranchi, Jharkhand, 834006, India

    Amarjeet Kumar

  3. ICAR-Central Agro Forestry Research Institute (CAFRI), Jhansi, India

    Alka Bharati

  4. Biotechnology Laboratory, ICAR-Indian Institute of Maize Research (IIMR), Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, 141004, India

    Sumit Kumar

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Chandra, A.K., Kumar, A., Bharati, A. et al. Microbial-assisted and genomic-assisted breeding: a two way approach for the improvement of nutritional quality traits in agricultural crops. 3 Biotech 10, 2 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-019-1994-z

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