Biofortified crops with a visible trait: The example of orange-fleshed sweet potato in sub-Saharan Africa

Handbook of Food Fortification and Health: From Concepts to Public Health Applications

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 371-384

  Low, Jan W ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Beta carotene; Biofortification; Food security; Micronutrient malnutrition; Nutrition; Orange fleshed sweet potato; Sub saharan Africa; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960429804     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7076-2_29     Document Type: Chapter

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