TY - JOUR
T1 - New strategies to address world food security and elimination of malnutrition
T2 - future role of coarse cereals in human health
AU - Zou, Xin
AU - Zhang, Jieyu
AU - Cheng, Ting
AU - Guo, Yangyang
AU - Zhang, Li
AU - Han, Xiao
AU - Liu, Changying
AU - Wan, Yan
AU - Ye, Xueling
AU - Cao, Xiaoning
AU - Song, Chao
AU - Zhao, Gang
AU - Xiang, Dabing
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2023 Zou, Zhang, Cheng, Guo, Zhang, Han, Liu, Wan, Ye, Cao, Song, Zhao and Xiang.
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - As we face increasing challenges of world food security and malnutrition, coarse cereals are coming into favor as an important supplement to human staple foods due to their high nutritional value. In addition, their functional components, such as flavonoids and polyphenols, make them an important food source for healthy diets. However, we lack a systematic understanding of the importance of coarse cereals for world food security and nutritional goals. This review summarizes the worldwide cultivation and distribution of coarse cereals, indicating that the global area for coarse cereal cultivation is steadily increasing. This paper also focuses on the special adaptive mechanisms of coarse cereals to drought and discusses the strategies to improve coarse cereal crop yields from the perspective of agricultural production systems. The future possibilities, challenges, and opportunities for coarse cereal production are summarized in the face of food security challenges, and new ideas for world coarse cereal production are suggested.
AB - As we face increasing challenges of world food security and malnutrition, coarse cereals are coming into favor as an important supplement to human staple foods due to their high nutritional value. In addition, their functional components, such as flavonoids and polyphenols, make them an important food source for healthy diets. However, we lack a systematic understanding of the importance of coarse cereals for world food security and nutritional goals. This review summarizes the worldwide cultivation and distribution of coarse cereals, indicating that the global area for coarse cereal cultivation is steadily increasing. This paper also focuses on the special adaptive mechanisms of coarse cereals to drought and discusses the strategies to improve coarse cereal crop yields from the perspective of agricultural production systems. The future possibilities, challenges, and opportunities for coarse cereal production are summarized in the face of food security challenges, and new ideas for world coarse cereal production are suggested.
KW - coarse cereal
KW - drought
KW - nutrient function
KW - yield
KW - yield-enhancement strategy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85179956310&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3389/fpls.2023.1301445
DO - 10.3389/fpls.2023.1301445
M3 - Review article
C2 - 38107010
AN - SCOPUS:85179956310
SN - 1664-462X
VL - 14
JO - Frontiers in Plant Science
JF - Frontiers in Plant Science
M1 - 1301445
ER -