Editorial: Trait mining and genetic enhancement of millets and potential crops: modern prospects for ancient grains

Joshi, D C and Sood, S and Kudapa, H and Zhou, M and Santra, D (2023) Editorial: Trait mining and genetic enhancement of millets and potential crops: modern prospects for ancient grains. Frontiers in Plant Science (TSI), 14. 01-03. ISSN 1664-462X

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Abstract

Over the last decades, agricultural productivity has witnessed a significant increase. Yet, only 12 crops provide 75% of the world’s food supplies and three major crops, rice, wheat and maize, provide 50% of global dietary requirements (Joshi et al., 2019). These leading cereals have inherently low micronutrient concentrations, and overreliance on these crops leads to micronutrient deficiencies (Joshi et al., 2020). Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asian countries are the hot spots where the prevalence of micronutrient malnutrition is very high (Harding et al., 2018). For instance, In India alone, over 80% of the population is at risk of calcium deficiency and up to 25% suffer from iron and zinc deficiency (Ritchie et al., 2018). Many low-volume, high-value crops cultivated for millennia have high nutritional quality and can contribute to global food security and help combat hidden hunger. Therefore, dietary diversification by including micronutrients and vitamins rich minor and neglected food crops in the existing cropping systems is one of the most effective ways of sustainably reducing hidden hunger (Joshi et al., 2018). Millets and pseudocereals have the ability to provide a reasonable yield in the harshest environmental conditions of the world. Their ability to withstand environmental stresses and fragile ecosystems makes them ideal dualpurpose crops for grain and fodder production in low-input marginal agricultural systems prevalent in semi-arid regions. However, millets and pseudocereals have received little scientific attention and the control of economic traits remains unknown (Joshi et al., 2019; Sood et al., 2019).

Item Type:	Article
Divisions:	Center of Excellence in Genomics and Systems Biology
CRP:	UNSPECIFIED
Uncontrolled Keywords:	millets, potential crops, nutritional security, climate resilience, genomics
Subjects:	Mandate crops > Millets Others > Climate Resilient Technologies Others > Genetics and Genomics
Depositing User:	Mr Nagaraju T
Date Deposited:	04 Mar 2024 03:56
Last Modified:	04 Mar 2024 03:56
URI:	http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/12531
Official URL:	https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science...
Projects:	UNSPECIFIED
Funders:	UNSPECIFIED
Acknowledgement:	The Research Topic does not involve any funding. We are thankful to all the reviewers for their critical review and editing of the manuscripts
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