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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kumar, Shiv
• Dikshit, Harsh Kumar
• Mishra, Gyan Prakash
• Singh, Akanksha

Titel

Biofortification of Mungbean

Ist Teil von

• Biofortification of Staple Crops, 2022, p.295-333

Ort / Verlag

Singapore: Springer

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Mungbean is a highly nutritious and easily digestible grain legume known for a shorter crop duration, soil ameliorative properties, and wider adaptability. It fits well in numerous cropping systems as a sole crop as well as intercrop and records high per day productivity in comparison to several other pulses, cereals, and oilseeds, making it a viable option for economic sustainability of small and marginal farmers. Its grains are the primary economic produce that are consumed in several forms. Grown widely across different agro-climatic regions globally, it is an excellent and low-cost source of vegetable protein, iron, folate, potassium, and soluble fiber besides having low levels of fat, sodium, and glycemic index, making it one of the most preferred food legumes. Sprouting reduces antinutritional factors in mungbean seeds and enhances their overall nutrition quality, thereby increasing their economic value. Several other methods, viz., soaking, boiling, dehulling, and pressure cooking, are also reported to reduce antinutritional properties of mungbean seeds, thereby rendering them more usable and easily digestible. Systematic breeding efforts have been undertaken in mungbean in the past 5–7 decades, although most of these have remained confined to genetic improvement for yield and related traits, those too utilizing mainly the primary gene pool. Nonetheless, with more genetic and genomic resources becoming available, focus has gradually shifted toward the development of climate-smart and high-yielding mungbean genotypes with better nutritional qualities. Basic information has been generated for grain micronutrient concentration and their synthesis pathways, associated genes/QTL, linkage analysis, nutrient bioavailability, and containing antinutritional factors. This chapter focuses on all such developments and details biofortification of mungbean with reference to tackling protein energy malnutrition.