Genome Engineering for Crop Improvement

20Engineering of Plant Metabolic Pathway for Nutritional Improvement: Recent Advances and Challenges

Sameer Dixit^1#, Akanchha Shukla^1#, Vinayak Singh², and Santosh Kumar Upadhyay³

¹ Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

² Plant Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering Division, CSIR‐National Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

³ Department of Botany, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

CHAPTER MENU

• 20.1 Introduction
• 20.2 Methods for Metabolic Engineering
• 20.3 Vitamin A
• 20.4 Vitamin E
• 20.5 Vitamin C
• 20.6 Vitamin B
• 20.7 Amino Acids and Proteins
• 20.8 Plant Volatiles Compound
• 20.9 Phytic Acid
• 20.10 Condensed Tannin
• 20.11 Conclusions

20.1 Introduction

Agricultural research after the green revolution period has significantly improved crop productivity, which has led to increased food supplies in developed and developing countries. Improved plant breeding approaches and chemicals has enabled self‐sufficiency in major staple food crops and food security. However, climatic changes and reduced agricultural biodiversity has negatively affected the nutrient balance in major crops, increasing malnutrition in most of the world population. Nutritional deficiency is a major concern worldwide, affecting around 3 billion people particularly in developing nations (McGuire 2015). In addition, insufficient daily consumption of nutrients in food is also a major concern for human health (Gillespie et al. 2016). Deficiency ...