Nutritional Improvement of Food Crops — AGRON 600

Spring 2019 Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:30 – 3:45 pm Professor: Davina Rhodes, PhD RD Globally, 2 billion people are micronutrient deficient, 200 million children are stunted or wasted, and 2 billion adults are overweight or obese. The prevalence of malnutrition—exacerbated by a ballooning world population—is an increasingly urgent threat to food security. Biofortification, the process of developing nutrient-dense food crops, will be a key contributor towards ensuring global food security. In this course we will explore:

¨ Recent progress in crop biofortification ¨ Role of key vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and phytonutrients in health ¨ Concepts in crop genomics, biochemistry, and nutrition relevant to

biofortification

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