Zinc (Zn) deficiency is now recognized as a major problem of human nutrition worldwide. It is particularly severe where populations depend on cereals as staple food and have insufficient dietary intake of Zn from legumes and animal products. This situation is widespread in arid regions of developing countries such as Iran.
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Iranian Management and Programing Organization |
تاثیر توزیع
The overall objective to which this project aims to contribute is to identify and investigate agronomic management practices potentially suited to biofortify cereal grains in order to alleviate human Zn deficiency in regions with soils low in available Zn and populations depending on cereals for Zn nutrition such as in central Iran. In this project, we focus on the possibility to increase the density and nutritional availability of Zn in wheat grains by improving the organic factors of soil fertility in these regions.
This project was as a part of the HarvestPlus Proficiency Testing Program for iron and zinc analysis.