Nano Zinc-Enabled Strategies in Crops for Combatting Zinc Malnutrition in Human Health

Deficits in the mineral Zn are responsible for a sizable proportion of world’s disease burden and child mortality. With increasing success rate biofortification major crops, development genotype with enhanced bioavailability will be an efficient sustainable solution to nutrient deficiency-related problems. Due complex chemistry human system, absorption from cereals is lower. This complexity alleviated by phytate, phosphorus-storing compound cereal legume seeds, which negatively affects binding. The results recent studies on distribution elements micronutrient speciation seeds provide strong evidence presence distinct pools. observation supported data biofortified transgenic plant research. Several identify nicotinamide, metal chelator, as pivotal molecule. loading into grains has been reported increase nicotinamide levels, crucial finding. Intestinal can greatly improved nicotinamide. Furthermore, tests suggest that use nano Zn-enabled devices could effective strategy enable biofortification, may significantly boost content various crops. review comprehensively evaluated scientific publications indexed WoS, Scopus, other reliable databases explored insights how nano-enabled technology enhancing crops combating malnutrition humans.