Role of Under-Researched Crops in Food and Nutrition Security
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Crop Physiology and Crop Production".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 1892
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Interests: crop breeding and genomics; plant breeding; crop intensification; enabling environment; plant ideotype; yield potential
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Dear Colleagues,
Food and nutrition security is the main challenge faced in developing countries. Due to the inability of these nations to grow enough food for their citizens, they are obliged to import large quantities of agricultural products every year. Food and nutrition security is based on four pillars: (i) food availability, which refers to the availability of sufficient quantities; (ii) food access, which refers to having sufficient resources for acquiring appropriate food for a nutritious diet; (iii) stability, which refers to the availability and accessibility of quality food at all times; and (iv) utilization, which refers to the appropriate use of food-based knowledge of basic nutrition and care, as well as adequate water and sanitation. Orphan crops, also known as under-researched-, underutilized-, or neglected crops, play vital roles in the food and nutrition security and livelihood of resource-poor farmers and consumers in the developing world. Similar to major crops, these crops are members of all food types—cereals, legumes, vegetables and root and tuber crops, which are considered to be orphan crops. Despite their huge importance for present and future agriculture, orphan crops have generally received little attention from the global scientific community. Due to this, they produce inferior yields in terms of both quantity and quality. In this Special Issue, the role of orphan crops in food and nutritional security will be presented and discussed for key crops considering ecological and geographical factors. The efforts and achievements made so far to improve these crops in the area of breeding, physiology, agronomy, nutrition, genomics, and other relevant topics can be submitted to this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Zerihun Tadele
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- orphan crops
- breeding
- agronomy
- genomics
- nutrition
- plant improvement
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