title: Nutraceutical Value of Finger Millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.], and Their Improvement Using Omics Approaches.
abstract: The science of nutritional biology has progressed extensively over the last decade to develop food-based nutraceuticals as a form of highly personalized medicine or therapeutic agent. Finger millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.] is a crop with potentially tremendous but under-explored source of nutraceutical properties as compared to other regularly consumed cereals. In the era of growing divide and drawback of nutritional security, these characteristics must be harnessed to develop finger millet as a novel functional food. In addition, introgression of these traits into other staple crops can improve the well-being of the general population on a global scale. The objective of this review is to emphasize the importance of biofortification of finger millet in context of universal health and nutritional crisis. We have specifically highlighted the role that recent biotechnological advancements have to offer for enrichment of its nutritional value and how these developments can commission to the field of nutritional biology by opening new avenues for future research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar, India.
authors.forename: Anil
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar, India.
authors.forename: Mamta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Metwal
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar, India.
authors.forename: Sanveen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaur
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar, India.
authors.forename: Atul K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University Aberystwyth, UK.
authors.forename: Swati
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Puranik
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar, India.
authors.forename: Sadhna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar, India.
authors.forename: Manoj
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar, India.
authors.forename: Supriya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: ICAR-Vivekananda Institute of Hill Agriculture Almora, India.
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Babu
authors.affiliation: ICAR-Vivekananda Institute of Hill Agriculture Almora, India.
authors.forename: Salej
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sood
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University Aberystwyth, UK.
authors.forename: Rattan
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authors.lastname: Yadav
keywords: finger millet; functional food; health benefit; nutraceuticals; nutrition; nutritional security