Agri‐Food Biotechnology Institute Mohali Punjab, India
Ashish Kumar Pathak Department of Botany Charles University Praha 2 Czech Republic
Primož Pelicon Jozef Stefan Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia
Paula Pongrac Biotechnical Faculty University of Ljubljana Ljubljana, Slovenia Jozef Stefan Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia
Pravin Prakash Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Council of Scientific and Industrial Research National Botanical Research Institute (CSIR‐NBRI) Lucknow Uttar Pradesh, India
Krishan Mohan Rai Department of Plant and Microbial Biology University of Minnesota Saint Paul MN, USA
Hasthi Ram Department of Agri‐Biotechnology National Agri‐Food Biotechnology Institute Mohali Punjab, India
Gurwinder Singh Rana AFC New Delhi, India
Marjana Regvar Biotechnical Faculty University of Ljubljana Ljubljana, Slovenia
Riyazuddin Riyazuddin Department of Plant Biology and Doctoral School in Biology Faculty of Science and Informatics University of Szeged Szeged, Hungary
Joy K. Roy National Agri‐Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) Mohali Punjab, India
Shweta Roy Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden
Suchismita Roy Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of California San Diego CA, USA
Ashish Sharma CSIR‐National Botanical Research Institute Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR‐NBRI) Lucknow Uttar Pradesh, India Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh, India
Chhaya Sharma School of Agricultural Biotechnology Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana Punjab, India
Erum Shoeb Cell and Systems Biology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario, Canada
Akanchha Shukla Department of Biology University of Western Ontario London Ontario, Canada
Anuradha Singh French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands (FAAB) Ben‐Gurion University of the Negev Sede Boqer Campus Sede Boqer, Israel
Harpal Singh Department of Nematology University of California Riverside CA, USA
Sudhir P. Singh Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (DBT‐CIAB) Mohali Punjab, India
Vinayak Singh Plant Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering Division CSIR‐National Botanical Research Institute Lucknow Uttar Pradesh, India
Inez H. Slamet‐Loedin Trait and Genome Engineering Cluster Strategic Innovation Platform International Rice Research Institute Manila, Philippines
Praveen Soni Department of Botany University of Rajasthan Jaipur Rajasthan, India
Sushmita Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Council of Scientific and Industrial Research National Botanical Research Institute (CSIR‐NBRI) Lucknow Uttar Pradesh, India Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh, India
Rakesh Srivastava Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Council of Scientific and Industrial Research National Botanical Research Institute (CSIR‐NBRI) Lucknow Uttar Pradesh, India
Siddharth Tiwari National Agri‐Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) Department of Biotechnology Ministry of Science and Technology (Government of India) Mohali Punjab, India
Prabodh Kumar Trivedi CSIR‐National Botanical Research Institute Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR‐NBRI) Lucknow Uttar Pradesh, India Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh, India CSIR‐Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR‐CIMAP) Lucknow Uttar Pradesh, India
Johannes Tuen van Elteren National Institute of Chemistry Ljubljana, Slovenia
Santosh Kumar Upadhyay Department of Botany Panjab University Chandigarh, India
Chandrama Prakash Upadhyaya Laboratory of Plant Molecular Biology Department of Biotechnology Dr Harisingh Gour Central University Sagar Madhya Pradesh, India
Chirag Uppal School of Agricultural Biotechnology Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana Punjab, India
Primož Vavpetič Jozef Stefan Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia
Srividhya Venkataraman Cell and Systems Biology University of Toronto Toronto Ontario, Canada
Praveen Chandra Verma Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Council of Scientific and Industrial Research National Botanical Research Institute (CSIR‐NBRI) Lucknow Uttar Pradesh, India Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) Ghaziabad Uttar Pradesh, India
Katarina Vogel‐Mikuš Biotechnical Faculty University of Ljubljana Ljubljana, Slovenia Jozef Stefan Institute Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tian Wang Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety of Shandong Normal University College of Life Science Shandong Normal University Jinan, China
Santosh Watpade ICAR‐IARI Regional Station (CHC) Shimla, 171004, India
Amit Yadav Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR) Ben‐Gurion University of the Negev Israel
Afifa Younas Department of Botany Lahore College for Women University Lahore, Pakistan
Kashaf Zafar Agricultural Biotechnology Division National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE) Constituent College of Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences Faisalabad, Pakistan Department of Biotechnology Balochistan University of Information Technology Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS) Quetta, Pakistan
Hongyan Zhang Key Laboratory of Food Nutrition and Safety of Shandong Normal University College of Life Science Shandong Normal University Jinan, China
Hongliang Zhu College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering China Agricultural University Beijing, China
Preface
About half of the world population is suffering from nutritional deficiency, which is due to either improper diet uptake, or non‐availability and unaffordability of balanced nutritive food. Therefore, nutritional enrichment of common food items has been of great interest to fulfill the demands of nutritional deficiency. For instance, development of carotenoids‐rich banana and tomato, and iron‐rich rice and wheat has been proposed to solve major issues of vitamin A deficiency and anemia. Further, the distribution of important mineral elements in grains is also a major challenge for their bioavailability. For example, the majority of elements like iron are enriched
