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- - Agricultural systems face challenges from environmental decline, population growth, and changing consumer preferences, leading to increased malnutrition issues.
- - Biotechnology, particularly synthetic biology, shows promise in improving plant nutritional content to address hidden hunger linked to limited access to healthy foods.
- - Recent advances in biofortification techniques aim to enhance plants with vital nutrients like vitamins and omega-3 fatty acids, pushing towards more resilient and nutritious food sources.
Article Abstract
Agricultural systems are under increasing pressure from declining environmental conditions, a growing population, and changes in consumer preferences, resulting in widespread malnutrition-related illnesses. Improving plant nutritional content through biotechnology techniques such as synthetic biology is a promising strategy to help combat hidden hunger caused by the lack of affordable and healthy foods in human diets. Production of compounds usually found in animal-rich diets, such as vitamin D or omega-3 fatty acids, has been recently demonstrated in planta. Here, we review recent biotechnological approaches to biofortifying plants with vitamins, minerals, and other metabolites, and summarise synthetic biology advances that offer the opportunity to build on these early biofortification efforts.
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