The nutritional fortification of cereals

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 162-165

  Poletti, Susanna ^a   Gruissem, Wilhelm ^a   Sautter, Christof ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Marker assisted selection; MAS; Part per million; ppm; QTL; Quantitative traits loci

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ESSENTIAL AMINO ACID; IRON; RETINOL; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

BREEDING; CEREAL; DNA MODIFICATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LABORATORY; LIVESTOCK; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CEREALS; FOOD, FORTIFIED; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

EID: 1842714372     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2004.03.002     Document Type: Review

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