Biofortification of wheat grain with iron and zinc: Integrating novel genomic resources and knowledge from model crops

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Borrill, Philippa ^a   Connorton, James M ^a   Balk, Janneke ^a,b   Miller, Anthony J ^a   Sanders, Dale ^a   Uauy, Cristobal ^a,c  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL BOTANY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cereals; Genomics; Model to crop; Nutritional enhancement; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901006298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2014.00053     Document Type: Article

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