Nutritional genomics: Manipulating plant micronutrients to improve human health
Abstract
The nutritional health and well-being of humans are entirely dependent on plant foods either directly or indirectly when plants are consumed by animals. Plant foods provide almost all essential vitamins and minerals and a number of other health-promoting phytochemicals. Because micronutrient concentrations are often low in staple crops, research is under way to understand and manipulate synthesis of micronutrients in order to improve crop nutritional quality. Genome sequencing projects are providing novel approaches for identifying plant biosynthetic genes of nutritional importance. The term “nutritional genomics” is used to describe work at the interface of plant biochemistry, genomics, and human nutrition.
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Plants can be a source of health-promoting secondary metabolites such as phenols.
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- Authors
- DellaPenna, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Nevada, Reno (US)
- Corresponding author
- DellaPenna, Dean
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1999-07-16
- Volume
- 285
- Issue
- 5426
- Pages
- 375-379
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2103414939
- Cited by
- 313
- References
- 2
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- FWCI
- 3.03
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
- Keywords
- nutrigenomics, plant micronutrients, crop nutritional quality, biosynthetic genes, phytochemicals, vitamins and minerals, staple crops, human nutrition, plant biochemistry
- MeSH terms
- Crosses, Genetic, Diet, Health Promotion, Humans, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Nutritive Value, Plants, Edible, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Crops, Agricultural, Genome, Plant, Micronutrients, Computational Biology
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