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Phenomics in Crop Plants: Trends, Options and Limitations

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Evolution of nutrient-rich food systems to calorie-focused production agriculture has created serious agricultural and human health issues: marginalization of traditional agricultural crops, greater dependence of agricultural inputs, and creation of both energy and micronutrient malnutrition. To date more than half of global human populations are suffering numerous health problems associated with excess calories and lack of essential micronutrients. Pulse crops, in particular lentils, are promising crops not only to improve human health but also to reduce agricultural inputs toward greater agricultural sustainability. In this book chapter, human micronutrient malnutrition issues, suggestions to reduce micronutrient deficiencies, promise of pulse crops using lentil as an example, lentil’s micronutrient and antinutrient profiles, nutrient analytical procedures, and the needs to shift our thinking from calorie-focused to nutrient-focused approaches are also presented.

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  1. Vegetable/Pulse Quality and Nutrition, Clemson University, Department of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, 130 McGinty Court, 270 Poole Agricultural Center, Clemson, SC, 29634-0310, USA

    Dil Thavarajah

  2. Food Chemistry and Analysis, Nutrient Interactions, North Dakota State University, IACC 372, 1320 Albrecht Blvd, Fargo, ND, 58105, USA

    Casey R. Johnson & Pushparajah Thavarajah

  3. USDA Agriculture Research Service, Grain Legume Genetics and Physiology Research Unit, Johnson Hall, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164-6434, USA

    Rebecca McGee

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  1. Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR - Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kalyanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

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  2. Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR - Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kalyanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

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  3. Rabat - Instituts, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Rabat, Morocco

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Thavarajah, D., Johnson, C.R., McGee, R., Thavarajah, P. (2015). Phenotyping Nutritional and Antinutritional Traits. In: Kumar, J., Pratap, A., Kumar, S. (eds) Phenomics in Crop Plants: Trends, Options and Limitations. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2226-2_15

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