International Journal of Applied Agricultural Sciences

Special Issue

Biofortification Strategies to Increase Yield and Grain Micronutrients Contents in Wheat

  • Submission Deadline: 10 February 2020
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Majid Abdoli
About This Special Issue
In the world, cereals especially wheat provides about 50 percent of people’s daily energy requirements. Regretfully, this plant naturally has little micronutrients content and it will be even less if planted in micronutrients poor soils. Moreover, there are anti-nutrient combinations in wheat such as phytic acid that interferes with micronutrients absorption in human body. All of these factors along with low variety of diet result in low intake of daily requirements for micronutrients. Improvement of micronutrients content in wheat grain by bifortification is a proper approach for providing Zn requirements of body and reducing the malnutrition. Biofortification can be carried out by agronomic and genetic biofortification methods. Agronomic approach using micro-nutrient fertilizers, but thisinvolves some technology and costs. On the other hand, genetic biofortification involves classical breeding approaches to characterize and exploit genetic variation for mineral content, as well as new approaches involving gene discovery and marker assisted breeding.
Aims and Scope:
  1. Biofortification
  2. Grain quality
  3. Phytic acid to Zn molar ratio
  4. Agronomic and genetic biofortification
  5. Zinc deficiency
  6. Foliar spray
Lead Guest Editor
  • Majid Abdoli

    Department of Plant Production and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran

Guest Editors
  • Roman Grüter

    Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems (ITES, Zurich, Switzerland

  • Philip J. White

    Ecological Science Group, The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, United Kingdom

  • Bal R. Singh

    Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

  • Petra Bauer

    Institute of Botany, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

  • Y. Genc

    Molecular Plant Breeding Cooperative Research Centre, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

  • Matthias Wissuwa

    Crop Production and Environment Division, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan

  • Christos Noulas

    Department of Soil and Water Resources, Hellenic Agricultural Organization ‘DEMETER’, Agricultural Research General Directorate (N.AG.RE.F.), Institute of Industrial and Forage Crops, Larissa, Greece

  • Maria J. Poblaciones

    Department of Agronomy and Forest Environment Engineering University of Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

  • Stephanie Watts-Williams

    The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

  • Haiyong Xia

    National Engineering Laboratory of Wheat and Maize, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Crop Research Institute, Jinan, China

  • Hong Li

    Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Environment and Plant Protection Institute, Haikou, China

  • Hugo Ferney Gomez-Becerra

    Kazakh Research and Production Center of Farming and Crop Science, Almaty, Kazakhstan

  • Levent Ozturk

    Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

  • A. Gunes

    Department of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ankara, Ankara, Turkey

  • Hatun Barut

    East Mediterranean Agricultural Research Institute, Adana, Turkey

  • Zhao-Hui Wang

    Key Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and Agri-environment in Northwest China, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Natural Resources and Environment, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China

  • Zhaojun Nie

    Resources and Environment College, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, China

  • Ismail Cakmak

    Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

  • João Augusto Lopes Pascoalino

    Department of Soil Science, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil

  • Hikmet Budak

    Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Biological Sciences and Bioengineering Program, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

  • Chanakan Prom-u-thai

    Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand

  • Muhammad Farooq

    Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

  • Arvind Kumar

    Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, India

  • Samina Mehnaz

    Department of Biological Sciences, Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore, Pakistan

  • Muhammad Adnan

    Department of Botany, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Pakistan

  • Renu Pandey

    Division of Plant Physiology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

  • Mubshar Hussain

    Department of Agronomy, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

  • B. P. Mallikarjuna Swamy

    International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Manila, Philippines

  • Hafiz Muhammad Bilal

    Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan

  • Tarek Alshaal

    Department of Soil and Water, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, Egypt

  • Hafeez Rehman

    Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture Faisalabad-Pakistan, Faisalabad, Pakistan

  • Majid Abdoli

    Young Researchers and Elite Club, Zanjan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan, Iran

  • Ezatollah Esfandiari

    Department of Plant Production and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran

  • Behzad Sadeghzadeh

    Dryland Agricultural Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Maragheh, Iran

  • Seyed-Bahman Mousavi

    Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran

  • Ali-Asghar Aliloo

    Department of Plant Production and Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran

  • Mohsen Saeidi

    Department of Plant Production and Genetics, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering, Campus of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Razi University,, Kermanshah, Iran

  • Reza Amiri

    Department of Plant Production and Genetics, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering, Campus of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

  • Ali Rasaei

    Assistant Professor of Agronomy- Crop Physiology, Sararood Branch, Dryland Agricultural Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Areeo, Iran

  • Behnoush Rasaei

    Department of Plant Production and Genetics, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering, Campus of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

  • Amir Hossein Khoshgoftarmanesh

    Department of Soil Science, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran